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Posted on 12/12/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Physicists are quite good at retro-fitting acronyms. But Jimmy knows, it has its limits. Particle physics projects come in two types. There are the fancy names, and the tedious acronyms. Sometimes they are both. LHC (or The LHC) is obviously in … Continue reading →

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Colliding Particles: Episode 7

Posted on 27/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Featuring amongst others Nicolas Sarkozy, Fabiola Gianotti, Colin Blakemore at “Science is Vital”, Adam’s PhD viva and a big fountain. And what exactly the big deal is about nanotechnology.

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Firing a quark through the early universe

Posted on 27/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Latest results from the Large Hadron Collider use quarks and gluons to “X-ray” the nuclear soup we came from. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Don’t wear your colours here..

Posted on 20/11/2010 by lilyasquith

I’ve spent the last 48 hours enthralled by the goings on at the Argonne “Analysis Jamboree”. I’m not really much of a one for these things… my more senior colleagues doze and my more junior colleagues tap loudly on their … Continue reading →

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