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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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"Gravity", Or Inertia?

Oct 16 2013 | comment(s)

Please note: spoiler information in this article!

The recent movie "Gravity", featuring the two hollywood stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, is a very interesting experiment in film-making.

I can hardly recall other movies with just two characters, so this must clearly be a rare occurrence and one which shows that the movie treads in largely unexplored territory. Can people be entertained by one-man shows ? Well, yes, if the story is an extraordinary one. Tom Hanks does excellently in "Cast Away", for instance. "Gravity" is similar in the use of the loneliness of the protagonist and the large odds against her survival. But it is more radical in the total absence of other human figures, except Clooney of course.

The INFN President Thanks Young Researchers, Advises Them To Seek Better Fortunes Abroad

The INFN President Thanks Young Researchers, Advises Them To Seek Better Fortunes Abroad

Oct 11 2013 | comment(s)

The president Fernando Ferroni sent today an open, touching message to the personnel of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Italian research organization he directs. The INFN contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson by participating to the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN, providing funding and personnel -administrative staff, technicians, and researchers who are active members of the two big collaborations and who gave critical contributions to the discovery.
Before The Higgs - Text For The Trash Bin

Before The Higgs - Text For The Trash Bin

Oct 09 2013 | comment(s)

Today I was in the mood of cleaning up some areas of my labyrintic hard drive, after having performed a periodic backup of its contents. I thus came across some pieces of text that had been sitting in a remote folder, waiting to be used for a project now obsolete. I was about to just dump these files in the trash bin, when it occurred to me that this was stuff that had taken me some good time to put together, and maybe there was a better use for it.
And The Physics Nobel Prize Goes To...

And The Physics Nobel Prize Goes To...

Oct 08 2013 | comment(s)

HIGGS AND ENGLERT!

Note: this article is being updated in real time as events unfold... Updates are at the bottom. Note in particular the 12.05 update...!

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New Articles In Greek Available

New Articles In Greek Available

Oct 02 2013 | comment(s)

Just a small post to mention the recent activity in my Greek blog, where with the help of a very kind Greek student we are offering a selection of articles translated in Greek language.

Here are the latest additions:
What You Think Of New Physics At The TeV Scale

What You Think Of New Physics At The TeV Scale

Sep 30 2013 | comment(s)

A few days ago I posted the results of a poll ran on 50 or so participants to a workshop on the Higgs boson in Madrid. The poll consisted of six questions on the expectations one had on the possibility of new discoveries by present-day accelerators, as well as on the nature of the underlying theory of fundamental interactions, and on the nature of dark matter.