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Jon Butterworth
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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
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2014
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3 editions
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange and Impossibly Small World of Particle Physics
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2018
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19 editions
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Cognition Switch #2
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2018
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“Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them.”
― Smashing Physics
― Smashing Physics
“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.”
― Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
― Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
“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’.”
― Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
― Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
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