Théo Le Bret
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Théo Le Bret is a UCL Astrophysics undergraduate student. A French expat' (still looks on the wrong side of the road) who has travelled a bit, he has been living in London for almost two years, and is enjoying it a lot.
He also works as a mentor for the Debate Mate programme, a charity which aims at developing invaluable life skills (communication, critical and creative thinking, for instance) in students from unfavoured backgrounds through debating, with impressive results.

Blog Entries by Théo Le Bret

Higgs-Consistent Particle Discovered at LHC

(0) Comments | Posted 5 July 2012 | (15:11)

Yesterday was, for many physicists (and physics students), as a friend put it, "a bit like Christmas", and I think it is safe to bet that quite a few at CERN woke up today with a very Christmassy hangover. But, now that the party is over, a question arises (as...

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Beyond the Standard Model: The String Controversy

(99) Comments | Posted 3 July 2012 | (00:00)

In a couple of days, the final results on the search for the Higgs boson at CERN will be publicised, so in the meantime, I would like to dwell a bit on what comes after. Indeed, if the Higgs is found, this will only have confirmed, once more, that the...

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Are Mathematics Responsible for the Financial Crisis?

(0) Comments | Posted 19 March 2012 | (14:57)

In the recent economic crisis, many of the failures of the system have been attributed to the systematic trading of increasingly elaborate "derivatives"(which are sorts of bets on the future value of an asset), a practise which is made possible by the use of complex mathematical tools, such as the...

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Woody Allen Presents... Entropy!

(0) Comments | Posted 16 February 2012 | (16:51)

Since the Large Hadron Collider has been closed for a while, and experiments concerning the search for the Higg's and other hot topics such as the "faster than light neutrinos" (there is still no firm evidence as to the validity of the results, hence the quotes) are not due to...

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An Octopus and a Snail Walk Into a Bar...An Ode to Organic Intelligence and Intellectual Stupidity

(3) Comments | Posted 7 December 2011 | (23:00)

Octopuses, however surprising it may seem, can do all kinds of interesting things (although arguably maybe not, as some have claimed, predict the results of a football game): they can evolve with perfect ease in their environment (if, as I do, you struggle coordinating four limbs, imagine what it must...

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