Perturbation theory: are we covering up new physics?

Posted on 11/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

A timely award of the J. J. Sakurai Prize acknowledges how hard it can be sometimes to pin down what the Standard Model really thinks

Read more at the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.2 of Smashing Physics.

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LHSee: Higgs is on the phone

Posted on 09/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Why Albert Einstein might have been wrong after all and why this really matters

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

In City AM.

 

 

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Speak after the beep

Posted on 30/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. The episode of Material World referred to is here. I was on another episode soon after too, which is here.

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