Lonely chairs at CERN

Posted on 11/04/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Off mass-shell: Pythagoras to the LHC, via Einstein and Feynman

Posted on 06/04/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Giles Fraser says scientists are replacing theologians. Some thoughts on that

Posted on 27/03/2014 by Jon Butterworth

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How wide is a Higgs?

Posted on 25/03/2014 by Jon Butterworth

In accord with Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, short-lived particles have uncertain mass. So the Higgs boson, which gives mass to other particles, is uncertain about its own mass. New results from the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have started to tell us how uncertain

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