Tag Archives: Higgs

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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A follow up on research impact and the REF

Posted on 16/01/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Anyone connected with UK academia, who follows news about it, or indeed who has met a UK academic socially over the last couple of years, will probably have heard about the Research Excellence Framework (REF). All UK universities had their … Continue reading →

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Progress report from CERN

Posted on 13/12/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Sizing up a new particle accelerator, and the ‘cosmic stupid’ limit

Posted on 22/11/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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