Tag Archives: Higgs

Is there any such thing as “nothing”?

Posted on 12/05/2013 by

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 →

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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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Why does the Higgs decay?

Posted on 22/06/2012 by

Higgs bosons might be being produced at CERN right now, but we can’t keep them. Lily Asquith explains… here.

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Told you so…

Posted on 11/05/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Rumours of the Higgs at ATLAS

Posted on 24/04/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Having the Higgs in the room

Posted on 22/04/2011 by

Also at The Guardian It is a beautiful thing that Peter Higgs did. He took a very complicated description of reality that explained some things so well it could not be ignored, and utterly failed to explain other things, things … Continue reading →

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Putting the Higgs Boson in its place

Posted on 17/04/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Blogging the Big Bang

Posted on 15/03/2011 by

Flying penguins vs plastic balls at the ExCel Centre. Justin Evans, a researcher at UCL, tells the tale… At The Guardian.

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Tevatron: end of an amazing era

Posted on 10/01/2011 by

Posted on The Guardian, 10/1/2011.

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One Year On

Posted on 02/01/2011 by

Posted on The Guardian, 2/1/2010.

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