A Strange Journey: Review of Atom Land

Posted on 07/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly.

Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” His accessible narrative cleverly relates difficult concepts, such as wave-particle duality or electron spin, in bite-size bits. Readers become explorers on Butterworth’s metaphoric map… Read more.

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Book review

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

via A Map of the Invisible – Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth

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Book Shambles

Posted on 30/12/2017 by Jon Butterworth

“It’s Part II of our end of year specials, but Part I of those we recorded backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo as part of the Compendium of Reason gigs. Guests on this episode include Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ben Goldacre, Helen Czerski, Jon Butterworth, Steve Mould, Hannah Fry, Laura Kid and Steve Best with book recommendations from photography collections to graphic novels to expansive novels.”

Recorded backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo. In which I talk about Logicomix.

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