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

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Phase transitions: steam engines, Dark Matter and the Higgs

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Why so much excitement over the Higgs boson?

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

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