Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?

Posted on 08/10/2013 by Jon Butterworth

Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.

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Covariance: the underground life of neutrinos

Posted on 09/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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The Higgs Boson: A Discovery

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.

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Dark Energy, and Matter, Surveys

Posted on 03/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

A quickie, too long for a tweet…

If you want to know more about the Guardian’s No.1 big science question , you could do a lot worse than listen to the podcast of my UCL colleagues Ofer Lahav and Chamkaur Ghag, and others, discussing it all on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (available until 9 Sept 2013).

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