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Review: A Map of the Invisible: Journeys Into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth
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What to focus on. Where to look for the science.
“Broken Symmetries” is an art exhibition at FACT in Liverpool. Spread over galleries on two levels, it provides an audio and visual immersion in a strange frontier of knowledge and its echoes and resonances in wider culture.
The artwork is born of interactions between the science and technology of particle physics, and a number of international artists.
Read more at the Cosmic Shambles network…
Posted in Arts, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
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Conceptual design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN
This conceptual design report came out today. It looks like an impressive amount of work and although I am familiar with some of its contents, it will take time to digest, and I will undoubtedly be writing more about it in the future.
A couple of quick things now mostly regarding the press coverage so far. There a nice piece here by my old Guardian colleague Ian Sample. As he mentions, the project will be discussed intensively as part of ongoing process to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics. I’ll be involved in that process (many from the UK will, whatever is going on in the House of Commons right now) and I am keeping an open mind. However, as I told Pallab Ghosh in this article, this project would at present be my preferred Plan A.
The thing that surprised me in Pallab’s piece is that Sir David King thinks more research into climate change might save the world.
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Look-a-likes?
The award-winning blogger beard Telescoper used to do astronomy look-a-likes, which unfortunately sometimes strayed into other fields. If he strayed a bit further I think he’d find a striking one in today’s news:
Sir Paul Nurse FRS
Speaker Bercow
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