Tag Archives: Relativity

On Pauli and the interconnectedness of all things

Posted on 28/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Do all the electrons in the universe really move about imperceptibly when Brian Cox rubs a diamond, and is it anything to do with the Pauli exclusion principle? At the Guardian.

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Why Albert Einstein might have been wrong after all and why this really matters

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

In City AM.    

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Those faster-than-light neutrinos. Four things to think about

Posted on 24/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics.

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Black holes turn into fuzzballs and destroy a thousand sci-fi plots

Posted on 26/08/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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