Category Archives: Travel

Geneva Monopoly

Posted on 01/09/2018 by

Just returned from a couple of weeks at CERN. Saw this in Geneva and had to buy it – you can probably tell why.

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The Standard Model at Fifty

Posted on 17/08/2018 by

At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading →

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How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics

Posted on 03/01/2017 by

At Aeon Magazine (who commissioned it) but also in The Atlantic and Quartz. This summer I went on a family holiday to Cornwall, on the Helford River. The peninsula south of the river is, rather wonderfully, called The Lizard. Standing on its … Continue reading →

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Is this the plot with the most physics?

Posted on 11/09/2016 by

At the Guardian.

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