Particle physics ‘all made up’ admit boffins
‘I mean, the names! You fell for all of them: quark and muon came from a drunken game of scrabble’. [read...]
‘I mean, the names! You fell for all of them: quark and muon came from a drunken game of scrabble’. [read...]
Nigel Farage has slammed the Large Hadron Collider for taking two years off work then coming back online to ‘deliberately introduce dark matter into an already crowded Universe’. The UKIP leader has long highlighted quantum immigration as an ‘explosive issue’ [read...]
Ask a group of children to perform ring-a-ring of roses inside another group performing ring-a-ring of roses the other way and you have the perfect recipe for an afternoon in A&E. Change the children for protons and instead of coughing-up blood and bone, [read...]
It cost some £6.2 billion to build, but the Large Hadron Collider may have justified that enormous price tag after it finally located Professor Brian Cox’s lost car keys. The keys were lost by Cox in the 1990s while an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and his 1987 Nissan Micra has remained in an NCP car park ever since. [read...]
A Cheltenham butcher who has never heard of Higgs Boson is getting on with his life just fine say his friends.
‘Gordon has never heard of it,’ said Luke Church, a friend, ‘but he just goes on living all the same.’ [read...]