Category Archives: Physics

The sound of science

Posted on 07/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at the Guardian. For some reason it has taken me about 3000 years to get around to writing this post. Seeing Jon last week at CERN has finally collapsed me into the right state to do so. Paddington station … Continue reading →

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Large Hadron Collider to continue running through 2012

Posted on 31/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 4.7 of Smashing Physics.

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When A times B isn’t B times A

Posted on 29/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Paul Dirac: The Matrix has you. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 7.4 of Smashing Physics.

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Weak gravitational lensing and weak arguments

Posted on 23/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Bending of light by dark matter is a vital observational tool in cosmology. So if you are going to use cosmology to accuse financial institutions of a “blind faith in maths”, you might at least google it first. At The … Continue reading →

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