Tag Archives: LHC

Putting the Higgs Boson in its place

Posted on 17/04/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.7 of Smashing Physics.

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Frontier Physics

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the energy frontier, there are prospectors and surveyors. And of course absolutely no cowboys. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.3 of Smashing Physics.

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Large Hadron Collider to continue running through 2012

Posted on 31/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 4.7 of Smashing Physics.

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Weak gravitational lensing and weak arguments

Posted on 23/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Bending of light by dark matter is a vital observational tool in cosmology. So if you are going to use cosmology to accuse financial institutions of a “blind faith in maths”, you might at least google it first. At The … Continue reading →

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