Tag Archives: Higgs

Phase transitions: steam engines, Dark Matter and the Higgs

Posted on 03/11/2014 by Jon Butterworth

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Why so much excitement over the Higgs boson?

Posted on 09/10/2014 by Jon Butterworth

On 5th September I talked to Robyn Williams of ABC (Australia) The Science Show in a basement room at UCL. We covered the Higgs, the LHC, Smashing Physics, all kinds of things, and he recorded it on a very elderly … Continue reading →

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Majorana particles – Fundamentally confusing

Posted on 05/10/2014 by Jon Butterworth

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Belief, bias and Bayes

Posted on 28/09/2014 by Jon Butterworth

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