Tag Archives: nobel prize

Quantum Fields and Missing Quotes

Posted on 19/06/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Murray Gell-Mann on ditching what ‘everybody knows’

Posted on 24/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

He started from the patterns of particles created by cosmic rays, took a name from James Joyce, and changed the way we see fundamental physics. Video at The Guardian.

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Swinging cats and levitating frogs

Posted on 05/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Congratulations to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov on winning the Nobel prize in physics – not for their frog-levitating work, but for groundbreaking studies of graphene On The Guardian.

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Into the unknown

Posted on 17/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.8 of Smashing Physics. This morning the first LHC paper to really probe for new physics was submitted by ATLAS to the preprint server and to Physical Review Letters. There has already been one paper (by CMS) … Continue reading →

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