Category Archives: science

The Higgs Boson: God particle or Tory rumour?

20 August, 2008 – 8:00 pm

So, to continue my recent theme, what are Higgs Bosons anyway? The people want to know. The best explanation I’ve ever heard (and thanks for the reminder, Alison) is that by Professor David J. Miller of University College, London. So best, in fact, that in 1993 it won him the grand prize of a bottle [...]

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End of the world postponed again

10 August, 2008 – 4:28 am

Those who have been following the Large Hadron Collider Countdown (yes I know, the link to the normally excellent www.lhcountdown.com site is currently broken – what are they trying to hide?) have probably noticed that the world failed to end on schedule last Thursday. Does that mean we’re all safe? That we’re not going to [...]

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