Tag Archives: gravitational waves

Select committees

Posted on 08/03/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Well, the fight to stop the decimation of particle, astro and nuclear physics continues. The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology select committee session I mentioned in the previous post happened. The above picture is one of the lighter … Continue reading →

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Summer Highlights

Posted on 29/10/2019 by Jon Butterworth

One of the highlights of my summer was giving the “Highlights” talk at the end of the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics meeting in Ghent. I wrote something about it here and here already, but today my write up of … Continue reading →

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Another Hot Mess

Posted on 04/08/2019 by Jon Butterworth

Exotic matter takes centre stage in this second instalment of highlights from the big summer High Energy Physics conference. At the Cosmic Shambles Network.

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Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

Posted on 03/10/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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