Tevatron results: W marks the spot

Posted on 02/03/2012 by Jon Butterworth

It’s often said that without a Higgs boson, the standard model of particle physics is in deep trouble. As Bo Jayatilaka writes, if this ellipse didn’t overlap with this line, it already would be…

By Bo Jayatilaka, at the Guardian.

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On Pauli and the interconnectedness of all things

Posted on 28/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Do all the electrons in the universe really move about imperceptibly when Brian Cox rubs a diamond, and is it anything to do with the Pauli exclusion principle?

At the Guardian.

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Gaming the system? Neutrinos, theorists and citations

Posted on 25/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.1 of Smashing Physics.

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Increased energy in the LHC, and why we can’t make use of it all

Posted on 17/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.1 of Smashing Physics.

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