A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation
Max GluckmanTags
- A Map of the Invisible
- antimatter
- ATLAS
- audio
- BBC
- books
- Boost
- brexit
- Brian Cox
- CERN
- CMS
- colliding particles
- comics
- contur
- Coronavirus
- cosmic rays
- Cosmic Shambles
- dark energy
- dark matter
- DESY
- ESPP
- Europe
- Fermilab
- gravitational waves
- Guardian
- Health
- heavy ions
- Higgs
- ICHEP
- Inside Science
- LHC
- LHCb
- Murray Gell-Mann
- music
- Nature
- Neutrinos
- New Scientist
- nobel prize
- open access
- Perimeter Institute
- Postcards from the Energy Frontier
- quantum mechanics
- reblog
- Relativity
- reviews
- Richard Feynman
- Robin Ince
- Royal Institution
- Royal Society
- science fiction
- Sixty Symbols
- Smashing Physics
- STFC
- string theory
- supersymmetry
- teaching
- TED
- Today
- UCL
- video
Top Posts & Pages (Past 2 days)
Me on Twitter
My TweetsTopics
Previous posts by date
Tag Archives: Jim Baggott
Future echoes
I have three email inboxes, for UCL, CERN and personal stuff. Catching up on some CERN bulk mails of the last few weeks, three interesting articles I thought worth sharing. One is a report from the “Future Circular Collider” (FCC) … Continue reading
Posted in History, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Breakthrough Prize, CERN, ESPP, Europe, FCC, Jim Baggott, LHC, Red Dwarf
Comments Off on Future echoes
Supersymmetry Redux
In the previous post, “Running over the same old ground?”, I outlined three types of reaction to the lack of evidence (so far, at the LHC) for physics beyond the Standard Model. A conversation afterward with Prof Michael Duff reminded … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Gordon Kane, Jim Baggott, LHC, Michael Duff, supersymmetry
2 Comments
Fairytale of New Physics
There seems to be a minor rash of polemic at the moment on the theme “aren’t scientists deluded/betraying science/living in fairytale-land”. Read more at the Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged audio, BBC, books, Higgs, Jim Baggott, Lee Smolin, Les Houches, Start the Week
Comments Off on Fairytale of New Physics
