Tag Archives: New Scientist

A Decade of the Higgs Boson and Beyond

Posted on 04/07/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Some bits and pieces on today’s festivities. An article at the Cosmic Shambles Network: There’s also a live webcast from CERN. And (along with several others) I talked to Harry Cliff for this excellent New Scientist article, and am extensively … Continue reading →

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The Oval, Hull, ExCel and CERN

Posted on 29/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Talking about particle physics is very audience-dependent A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk – “Scientific Section Presidential Address“, in fact – at the British Science Festival in Hull. I’ve just been sent links to a write-up (in … Continue reading →

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The Higgs Boson: A Discovery

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.

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God, Stephen Hawking and M-Theory

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I speak my brain on Channel 4 News about the booksellers’ current favourite controversy – Stephen Hawking versus God Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, I was … Continue reading →

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