Confession: after 5 weeks working out of a Catholic school’s grounds

I am currently working in a managerial role in a Catholic School. I'm not actually working for the Catholic School, I am working for a separate organisation that is renting the site for during the Summer Holidays. And in the spirit on being in a Catholic environment, I thought I might give a small series…

The Higgs Field is Like Flooding (and why I probably won’t be back in Somerset today)

Be ready for some bad science The Higgs boson is that mysterious particle that the CERN built a supercollider (the Large Hadron Collider) to detect, and we’re pretty sure it found it. The Higgs field is something that exists complementary to the Higgs boson particle. To picture that, imagine an electromagnetic field (that thing you should have…