Category Archives: Particle Physics

My favourite particle: the photon

Posted on 28/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian. I was talking to my daughter about a star she saw out of her bedroom window the other morning. Actually it was Venus. She had learned at school that some of the stars we see aren’t … Continue reading →

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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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Tevatron: end of an amazing era

Posted on 10/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Posted on The Guardian, 10/1/2011.

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