Tag Archives: Smashing Physics

Higgs limerick

Posted on 13/12/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.3 of Smashing Physics.

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Faster than light neutrinos get a bit more convincing

Posted on 18/11/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics, and a Channel 4 write up here.

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Perturbation theory: are we covering up new physics?

Posted on 11/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

A timely award of the J. J. Sakurai Prize acknowledges how hard it can be sometimes to pin down what the Standard Model really thinks Read more at the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.2 of Smashing Physics.

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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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