Category Archives: Travel

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

Putting the Higgs Boson in its place

Posted on 17/04/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Twins and a tea pom-pom: mystery physics “answers”

Posted on 20/01/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Today’s mystery physics for you to identify

Posted on 19/01/2011 by

Posted on The Guardian 19/1/2011.

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Border Country

Posted on 12/12/2010 by

From Barnet to Evian via a new toothbrush and an old railway station. At The Guardian

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On the way home

Posted on 20/11/2010 by

Distance, technology and stuff. Somewhere over Paris. I’m writing this on an aeroplane between Geneva and London. This is my weekly commute since becoming a convener of the ATLAS Standard Model physics group. We use teleconferencing and our world wide … Continue reading →

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Can you tell what it is yet?

Posted on 22/09/2010 by

Detailed software models of particle physics detectors are an essential part of designing and using them. GEANT, the huge open-source software project developed for them, is also used for space and medical applications Continued at The Guardian.

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From liquid argon to M theory?

Posted on 16/09/2010 by

Claiming to understand the universe from first principles is all very well, but the foundations have to be built on experiment and observation. And it is slow, hard work. Even in Pisa. Continued at The Guardian.

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Notes from Chicago

Posted on 30/08/2010 by

Now at The Guardian. I am Lily, a new postdoc at Argonne National Lab.  I’m the one who thinks she can find the Higgs boson by listening to it. Thanks Jon for letting me play on your blog. I moved … Continue reading →

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Europe by Physics and Train

Posted on 28/08/2010 by

This post is now also on The Guardian. Back in Geneva after the SUSY meeting in Bonn and a day in the mountains. The return journey wasn’t as pleasant as the outward one. The train didn’t turn up at Bonn … Continue reading →

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