Category Archives: Travel

The Standard Model at Fifty

Posted on 17/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

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 Jon Butterworth

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 Jon Butterworth

A long-ish read about a plot with lots of physics. Not the plot of a film or a novel but, you know, a plot! I began writing this somewhere between Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, on the way home after week … Continue reading →

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Light and Dark Matter in Durham

Posted on 15/11/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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