Ever feel your winter wardrobe is missing something? Are your festive woollens just a bit too mainstream? Is there not enough science depicted on your clothes? Don’t worry, Physics World has a solution. After some office-wide discussions, a bit of tuneless Christmas singing and many scribbled doodles that are more scribble than doodle, we are proud to present our ideas for festive physics jumpers, as drawn by Physics World features editor Sarah Tesh.

We haven’t actually knitted them yet, but if you have the skills to make one of our designs come to life – or can draw your own fun festive physics jumpers – we’d love to see them. Our top five favourites will win a copy of Stephen Hawking’s final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions and we’ll publish them in the New Year. Terms and conditions apply (see below).

See “this article from October” for Physics World managing editor Matin Durrani’s review of Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

How to enter

To enter the competition, send your festive physics designs – or photographs of actual knitted jumpers that you have created featuring physics puns – to us by 7 January 2019.

Please include your full name and contact details with your entry.

Send your entries by e-mail to pwld@iop.org or by post to:
Physics World
Temple Circus
Temple Way
Bristol
BS1 6HG
UK

Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions apply to all entries to the Physics World Christmas Jumper Competition – December 2018, however submitted.

1. Promoter is IOP Publishing Limited (“IOP”) of Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol, UK, BS1 6HG.
2. No purchase necessary.
3. All entries must be received by the closing date of 7 January 2019.
4. IOP will not accept:
   1. responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit, regardless of cause; or
   2. proof of posting or transmission as proof of receipt of entry to the competition
5. The winners will be selected by the Physics World team within 30 days of the closing date and notified using the contact details submitted with the entry. If IOP cannot contact any winner within 90 days of the closing date, it shall have the right to declare their entry void and to choose a new winner.
6. IOP’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7. Competition entries cannot be returned.
8. IOP does not claim any rights of ownership in your competition entry. In connection with any publicity of the competition IOP may, but is not required to, make your entry available on its Physics World website, in the print copies of Physics World, on its social media channels and on any other media. You agree to grant IOP a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights in the competition entry and any accompanying materials, to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the competition entry and any accompanying materials for such purposes.
9. Entrants must be over 16 and have the right to enter.
10. IOP can change or withdraw these terms, the prize or the competition without notice and can refuse any entry.
11. No entries allowed from IOP employees or anyone connected with the competition, including their immediate families.
12. Only five prizes. No cash alternative.
13. As not all countries in the world accept the legality of competitions, it is the sole responsibility of each non United Kingdom based entrant to ensure that he or she is not breaching any laws of their country of residence by submitting an entry. IOP will not be held responsible for any entrant entering any competitions unlawfully. If in any doubt, the entrant should check with the relevant authorities in his or her country.
14. Delivery costs paid by IOP but any other costs winner’s responsibility.
15. IOP shall request permission to use winner’s name, location and/or affiliation for promotion. Personal data will be processed in accordance with all applicable Data Protection Act Legislation in the UK and as set out in IOP’s privacy notice.
16. Terms governed by English law.