Tag Archives: CERN

Seat of learning

Posted on 17/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At The Guardian.

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Border Country

Posted on 12/12/2010 by Jon Butterworth

From Barnet to Evian via a new toothbrush and an old railway station. At The Guardian

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Firing a quark through the early universe

Posted on 27/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Latest results from the Large Hadron Collider use quarks and gluons to “X-ray” the nuclear soup we came from. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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On the way home

Posted on 20/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Distance, technology and stuff. Somewhere over Paris. I’m writing this on an aeroplane between Geneva and London. This is my weekly commute since becoming a convener of the ATLAS Standard Model physics group. We use teleconferencing and our world wide … Continue reading →

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