Tag Archives: Cosmic Shambles

Off the map

Posted on 30/06/2019 by Jon Butterworth

Here’s a reasonable quality recording of a colloquium I gave in Valencia last month. It’s aimed at fellow particle physicists rather than the general public, but I know some of you fit that description, and some of it might be … Continue reading →

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Catching up

Posted on 15/03/2019 by Jon Butterworth

I have been too distracted to write much lately. This is partly due to the demoralising backdrop of UK politics, and partly because I have been having fun with physics and related matters. This is a quick catch up on … Continue reading →

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What to focus on. Where to look for the science.

Posted on 11/02/2019 by Jon Butterworth

“Broken Symmetries” is an art exhibition at FACT in Liverpool. Spread over galleries on two levels, it provides an audio and visual immersion in a strange frontier of knowledge and its echoes and resonances in wider culture. The artwork is … Continue reading →

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A Dark Matter mystery explained?

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

A paper on the arXiv this morning offers an explanation for an intriguing, long-standing anomalous result from the DAMA experiment. According to our current best model of how the universe hangs together, the Earth orbits the Sun within a galactic … Continue reading →

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