A precision US particle physics experiment is moving home

Posted on 25/06/2013 by Jon Butterworth

By Mark Lancaster, at the Guardian.

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Lego ATLAS: Your chance to build one of the detectors that found the Higgs

Posted on 20/06/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Göttingen to Geneva, an interlude

Posted on 19/06/2013 by Jon Butterworth

Spoiler: I caught my plane

Something has gone a bit wrong with the Deutsche Bahn (DB). Of the last six trains I have tried to take, two were cancelled and three were delayed, including the one I am currently on. On the other hand, my train from Paddington to Swindon on Monday was just fine. I am aware this isn’t exactly five sigma, but if your hypothesis was anything to do with “German efficiency” and “crap British trains”, there is tension in the data.

At the Guardian.

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Fairytale of New Physics

Posted on 16/06/2013 by Jon Butterworth

There seems to be a minor rash of polemic at the moment on the theme “aren’t scientists deluded/betraying science/living in fairytale-land”.

Read more at the Guardian.

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