Tag Archives: Smashing Physics

When A times B isn’t B times A

Posted on 29/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Paul Dirac: The Matrix has you. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 7.4 of Smashing Physics.

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Working Title

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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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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On the way home

Posted on 20/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Distance, technology and stuff. Somewhere over Paris. I’m writing this on an aeroplane between Geneva and London. This is my weekly commute since becoming a convener of the ATLAS Standard Model physics group. We use teleconferencing and our world wide … Continue reading →

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