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The Standard Model at Fifty
At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged Case Western, Higgs, video
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Our “Map of the Invisible”
Interview with John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, prior to the book launch at the Royal Institution. Here’s my lecture from the Royal Institution: And here is the Q&A afterwards:
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, audio, BBC, Royal Institution, Today, video
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Why I marched for science
Science will not make moral and political choices for us, or tell us what our goals should be. But it will help delineate the possibilities for achieving them At the Guardian. Some speeches and interviews, including one with me, are … Continue reading
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Tagged Cosmic Shambles, Guardian, video
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Is the Standard Model isolated?
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any … Continue reading
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