Experts

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on the ATLAS experiment at an impressive “Instant Expert” event organised by New Scientist. Quite a lot of people had decided that learning about particle physics was a good way to spend a Saturday and of course I agree. It was a very engaging audience, lots of fun.

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Cocktail update: Martinez

Posted on 11/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

According to the book I got for Christmas1, this is the “missing link between the Manhattan and the Martini”, and dates back to 1884. Tastewise, ithat description works for me, as does the cocktail itself.

  • 50ml red vermouth
  • 25ml gin
  • 5ml maraschino
  • generous with the bitters2
  1. The Spirits by Richard Godwin ↩︎
  2. Today was one of those vanishingly rare days where I actually finished a bottle of angostura. ↩︎
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HAPPy Days

Posted on 16/11/2024 by Jon Butterworth

If you are interested in the History and Philosophy of Physics, this 10th anniversary commemorative volume from the Oxford Centre for History and Philosophy of Physics might contain treats, possibly including a write up from me of a talk I gave there in 2018.

For which I just found a video recording, as it happens…

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Photons, hadrons and where they meet

Posted on 08/09/2024 by Jon Butterworth

The next particle collider to be built, not counting the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, seems likely to be the “Electron-Ion Collider” (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in the US. This will not be a machine probing the frontiers of high energy, but it will bring some exciting new capabilities, and it will indirectly help us understand the energy frontier.

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