Category Archives: Rambling

Should we change the Higgs boson’s name?

Posted on 28/04/2013 by

I wrote this piece on the blog about Higgs boson naming, and was then asked to write something for g2. This appeared on the web here (not in the usual Life & Physics slot, hence this post so I can … Continue reading →

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Updating stereotypes

Posted on 24/12/2012 by

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.

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Displacement activity

Posted on 30/04/2012 by

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 →

Posted in Astronomy, Rambling, Science, Travel

Waking up with a sense of euphoria.

Posted on 28/03/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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“He completely lost me on gravity”

Posted on 23/03/2011 by

At The Guardian. I got a typically hilarious email from my wonderful mother this morning. Tempted as I am to copy and pasted the email into this blog, it would ruin my retirement plan to publish a compendium of every … Continue reading →

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My favourite particle: the photon

Posted on 28/02/2011 by

At The Guardian. I was talking to my daughter about a star she saw out of her bedroom window the other morning. Actually it was Venus. She had learned at school that some of the stars we see aren’t there … Continue reading →

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Seat of learning

Posted on 17/01/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Working Title

Posted on 12/12/2010 by

Physicists are quite good at retro-fitting acronyms. But Jimmy knows, it has its limits. At The Guardian

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Colliding Particles: Episode 7

Posted on 27/11/2010 by

Is now online here. See also The Guardian.

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Don’t wear your colours here..

Posted on 20/11/2010 by

I’ve spent the last 48 hours enthralled by the goings on at the Argonne “Analysis Jamboree”. I’m not really much of a one for these things… my more senior colleagues doze and my more junior colleagues tap loudly on their … Continue reading →

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