Tag Archives: Smashing Physics

Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?

Posted on 08/10/2013 by Jon Butterworth

Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’ At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.

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Feynman: his birthday, his diagrams and his lectures

Posted on 12/05/2013 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of the birth of Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. An excuse for an unusual party At the Guardian. See also Chapter 8.3 of Smashing Physics.

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What’s in a name? An H, an i, two g’s and an s

Posted on 22/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 8.5 of Smashing Physics.

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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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