Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – review

Posted on 12/11/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Back in the Guardian (well, the Observer actually) with a review of Stephen Hawking’s final book .

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A couple of paragraphs didn’t make the edit; no complaints from me about that, but I put them here mainly for the sake of Fredric Brown:

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Dark Matters

Posted on 30/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

This is great.

I had nothing to do with it, it happened in the 95% of the Physics Department (and of the lives of my PhD students) about which I know nothing.

I recommend you watch it and form your own impressions before reading my thoughts, but I have some anyway if you’re interested.

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The trouble-makers of particle physics

Posted on 24/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The chances are you have heard quite a bit about the Higgs boson. The goody-two-shoes of particle physics, it may have been hard to find, but when it was discovered it was just as the theory – the Standard Model – said it should be. It has followed all the rules, so far. Neutrinos, on the other hand, are trouble.

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Dark Matter, U2 and NASA wee

Posted on 17/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

A Science Shambles Blog Network podcast special, recorded a couple of weeks ago in a basement in Bloomsbury

Maybe all the maths is just a better metaphor than a sock

 

 

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