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Neutrinos, antimatter, and science as a holistic detective agency
‘Holistic’ is a much abused word. Like ‘quantum’ and ‘paradigm’, it is beloved of snake-oil sellers of many types. But some kind of interconnectedness forms a key part of science’s defence against spurious results and crackpots. Two new scientific results … Continue reading
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Dark Matter: An Axion to grind?
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Tagged books, CERN, dark matter, Higgs, LHC, Sixty Symbols, supersymmetry, video
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Symmetry, and breaking it
How symmetries, and broken symmetries, help physics to be objective and help me to keep my equanimity At the Guardian.
Posted in Mathematics, Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged Guardian, Higgs, Royal Institution, supersymmetry, video
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Majorana particles – Fundamentally confusing
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