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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Is there any such thing as “nothing”?
That’s a question I got on twitter just now after the Feynman gig from @elainepixie. I said (broken down into 140 character chunks): One definition of “nothing” is “vacuum”, by which physicists mean “lowest energy state”. That exists. But in … Continue reading
Ask a grown-up: is there anything smaller than an atom?
And another non-”Life & Physics” article posted here so I can find it. One of the Guardian Weekend “Ask a grown-up” series. Most common response: “You did better than Sir Ranulph Fiennes”…
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged particle physics, physics
Updating stereotypes
Since this fun blog by Tom Chivers is all about being up to date, I thought it deserved up to date stereotypes in the cartoon. (I mean… ties!!) Interestingly the wastepaper bin and the chair don’t change.
Displacement activity
Well, I can’t get into my Guardian site, because of some VPN and password mix up. And yet I desperately need to write something to take my mind off the derby this evening. So here I am, back again. Today … Continue reading
Told you so…
At The Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, Higgs, LHC, Relativity
Rumours of the Higgs at ATLAS
At The Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, Channel 4, Higgs, LHC, video
Large Hadron Collider sets world record beam intensity
At The Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged cern, LHC
Putting the Higgs Boson in its place
At The Guardian.
The Tevatron goes bump
At the Guardian
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged chicago, Tevatron
