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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – review

Posted on 12/11/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Back in the Guardian (well, the Observer actually) with a review of Stephen Hawking’s final book . A couple of paragraphs didn’t make the edit; no complaints from me about that, but I put them here mainly for the sake of … Continue reading →

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Iain M Banks, and what we might be when we have nothing to fear

Posted on 03/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

The Culture is wonderful. And, sadly, still fiction At the Guardian.

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The Earth is nearly flat, and other scientific truths

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See aso 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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