Category Archives: Particle Physics

Symmetry, and breaking it

How symmetries, and broken symmetries, help physics to be objective and help me to keep my equanimity At the Guardian.

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Life and Physics in Pictures No. 3

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A Selfish turn around CERN

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Prepare yourself for the restart

As the preparations for the higher-energy restart of the LHC continue, good to to see this Horizon “Hunt for the Higgs” (with Jim Al-Khalili, Jim Gates, Adam Davison, me, and others) is available again on BBC iPlayer for a while. … Continue reading

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