I'm going to describe my most recent paper, written with Dorival Gonçalves, postdoc at the IPPP at Durham University. This is the arXiv version, as is usual in particle physics, we submit to the preprint serve, collect up commentary and citation requests, then get around to submitting to a journal.
Read MoreBut what dark matter? Unfortunately, I don't know. No one knows. But let's go through some of the possibilities anyway.
Read More"Why is the sky blue?" is one of those canonical little kid questions that is shorthand for "inquisitive tiny human confounding their adults."
Read More...physicists discovered that the uranium atom was really large; at least as far as incredibly microscopic objects go. Everything they threw at it seemed to "hit," so the nucleus was "as big as a barn."
Read MoreI decided to put together some useful facts about the dark matter halo in which we live. Useful of course is a relative term.
Read MoreWhy does a mirror switch left and right, but not up and down?
Read MoreIn conclusion, temperature is a land of contrasts.
Read MoreWe want a pure LHC-kill-beam thought experiment here.
Read MoreOK, let me try to explain the Higgs boson. To give a good explanation requires a lot of background, and I'm going to try not to half-ass it.
Read MoreQuestions? Comments? Ask me on twitter @physicsmatt
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