Tag Archives: Cosmic Shambles

2018 Highlights? Seriously?

Posted on 26/12/2018 by Jon Butterworth

I’d say 2018 has been “mixed”, at best. Read more at the Cosmic Shambles Network   Note added… maybe I was a bit too negative. At the air quality seems to actually be better now than recently, as can be … Continue reading →

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Dark Matters

Posted on 30/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

This is great. I had nothing to do with it, it happened in the 95% of the Physics Department (and of the lives of my PhD students) about which I know nothing. I recommend you watch it and form your … Continue reading →

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The trouble-makers of particle physics

Posted on 24/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The chances are you have heard quite a bit about the Higgs boson. The goody-two-shoes of particle physics, it may have been hard to find, but when it was discovered it was just as the theory – the Standard Model … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter, U2 and NASA wee

Posted on 17/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

A Science Shambles Blog Network podcast special, recorded a couple of weeks ago in a basement in Bloomsbury Maybe all the maths is just a better metaphor than a sock    

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