Tag Archives: CERN

Could the Higgs boson have been discovered by accident?

Posted on 18/09/2016 by Jon Butterworth

We have a tendency to oversimplify complicated issues. Sometimes this gives useful clarity, but more frequently it gives a distorted impression of what I am stubborn enough to call the truth. Clarity can be seductive, but is disastrously misleading if it … Continue reading →

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Is this the plot with the most physics?

Posted on 11/09/2016 by Jon Butterworth

A long-ish read about a plot with lots of physics. Not the plot of a film or a novel but, you know, a plot! I began writing this somewhere between Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, on the way home after week … Continue reading →

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How CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gives us insight into the unknown

Posted on 07/07/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Picturing particles: the evolution of event displays

Posted on 14/05/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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