Tag Archives: string theory

String theory and colour-field splash

Posted on 16/10/2010 by

Using images and art to try and understand science can be helpful, misleading, flaky or fun. But it seems to be inescapable. So on a relaxing Saturday morning, where the fact that my daughter and I are recuperating from colds … Continue reading →

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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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God, Stephen Hawking and M-Theory

Posted on 03/09/2010 by

At The Guardian PS “Speak My Brains”, hat-tip to the Day Today.

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Supersymmetry: The Higgs boson’s flexible friend

Posted on 21/08/2010 by

This post is also on The Guardian. Next week I am giving a talk a the SUSY 2010 conference in Bonn. It is a bit weird that there have been seventeen of these annual SUSY (for “SUperSYmmetry”), meetings, even though there is … Continue reading →

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Survival of those that Fit

Posted on 09/06/2010 by

I noticed the other day that suddenly more people were looking at my blog. So it goes - Wordpress give you lots of cool graphs to obsess over. However, that particular demon is a mere spotty imp compared to the citation-count ogre. … Continue reading →

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