Tag Archives: Channel 4

Faster than light neutrinos get a bit more convincing

Posted on 18/11/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics, and a Channel 4 write up here.

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Rumours of the Higgs at ATLAS

Posted on 24/04/2011 by Jon Butterworth

This is at The Guardian but the video from Channel 4 News doesn’t work. It is on YouTube   See also Chapter 5.2 of Smashing Physics.

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God, Stephen Hawking and M-Theory

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I speak my brain on Channel 4 News about the booksellers’ current favourite controversy – Stephen Hawking versus God Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, I was … Continue reading →

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LHC High Energy Physics Start

Posted on 31/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.1 of Smashing Physics. So, the LHC breaks new ground again. Not just in fundamental physics and accelerator technology, but in doing science live in public, or at least so it feels. We had hoped for collisions … Continue reading →

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