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Why so much excitement over the Higgs boson?

Posted on 09/10/2014 by Jon Butterworth

On 5th September I talked to Robyn Williams of ABC (Australia) The Science Show in a basement room at UCL. We covered the Higgs, the LHC, Smashing Physics, all kinds of things, and he recorded it on a very elderly … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 60 Years of CERN

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Jon Butterworth

On BBC World Service. Interview with me and Pedro Teixeira-Dias of Royal Holloway. We recorded this on 2 September (after a brief delay when the recording deck went nuts and a load of water poured out of the bottom of … Continue reading →

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Smashing Physics: how we discovered the Higgs boson – podcast

Posted on 28/07/2014 by Jon Butterworth

Another Science podcast for the Guardian. With Ian Sample.

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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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