Tag Archives: Relativity

Told you so…

Posted on 11/05/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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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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When A times B isn’t B times A

Posted on 29/01/2011 by

Paul Dirac: The Matrix has you. At The Guardian.

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Weak gravitational lensing and weak arguments

Posted on 23/01/2011 by

Bending of light by dark matter is a vital observational tool in cosmology. So if you are going to use cosmology to accuse financial institutions of a “blind faith in maths”, you might at least google it first. At The … Continue reading →

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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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Murray Gell-Mann on ditching what ‘everybody knows’

Posted on 24/10/2010 by

He started from the patterns of particles created by cosmic rays, took a name from James Joyce, and changed the way we see fundamental physics. Video at The Guardian.

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Swinging cats and levitating frogs

Posted on 05/10/2010 by

Congratulations to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov on winning the Nobel prize in physics – not for their frog-levitating work, but for groundbreaking studies of graphene On The Guardian.

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Wellcome to Physics

Posted on 23/05/2010 by

A couple of days ago I took part in a “packed lunch” discussion at the Wellcome Exhibition, about CERN, the LHC, and my work at UCL. A lot of fun. I turned up with a piece of the LHC we built … Continue reading →

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