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Jon Butterworth

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Jon Butterworth is a physics professor at University College London, and a member of the Atlas experiment at Cern's Large Hadron Collider.

He also writes for various places including The Guardian, Aeon and Cosmic Shambles.
Links to that and more, including news about public appearances, corrections and comments on his books, and other information can be found here.

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Fourheads

So, is the above (a) a publicity shot from the stage adaptation of The Usual Suspects (b) four (one current, three previous) Heads of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. If your answer was (b), well done. This week is a … Continue reading →

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	Smashing Physics 3.94 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange and Impossibly Small World of Particle Physics 3.62 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2018 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cognition Switch #2 by Martin J. Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them.”
― Jon Butterworth, Smashing Physics

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“There are many good things about Switzerland. The flag is a big plus. Also – possibly in reaction to the excess of meetings at CERN, the United Nations or the World Trade Organization – a Swiss political party formed in 2011 with a policy to ban PowerPoint. Contingency plans, including holding all meetings over the French border in the Prévessin site of CERN or (clearly very popular) enforcing a strict LaTeX-only policy, were discussed extensively.”
― Jon Butterworth, Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

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“There are a lot of seemingly arbitrary features of nature here that, to a certain type of mind (e.g. mine), plead for a more elegant explanation than ‘just because’.”
― Jon Butterworth, Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

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