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As we enter the quantum era: Perimeter lecture

Posted on 05/10/2016 by Jon Butterworth

The public lecture series at Canada’s Perimeter Institute begins again, with a talk from Michele Mosca on how quantum physics is having an increasing effect on technology, and therefore on our everyday lives At the Guardian.

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Muonium – the most exotic atom?

Posted on 31/01/2016 by Jon Butterworth

I’d never heard of it before this week, but it’s real. And there are plans to use it to look for antigravity At the Guardian.

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Symmetry, and breaking it

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Jon Butterworth

How symmetries, and broken symmetries, help physics to be objective and help me to keep my equanimity At the Guardian.

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Life and Physics in Pictures No. 3

Posted on 24/01/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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