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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

When goofing off is good

Credit: Jorge Cham
10 Aug 2017
Taken from the August 2017 issue of Physics World

Daniel Whiteson describes how his attempts to explain the Higgs boson to a wider audience led to a collaboration with the artistic brains behind PHD Comics

Sometimes your best ideas come when you are goofing off. It was just this kind of procrastination th

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Daniel Whiteson is an experimental particle physicist at the University of California, Irvine, US, and author with Jorge Cham of the book We Have No Idea: a Guide to the Unknown Universe (John Murray), e-mail daniel@uci.edu
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