What It Means To Be Anti-Science
"Anti-scientific thinking" is a bad disease of our time, and one which may affect a wide range of human beings, from illiterate fanatics such as anti-vaxxers and religious fundamentalists on one side, to highly-educated and brilliant individuals on the... Continue reading
A Science Communication Proposal For Pandemic Times
As every other aspect of human life, science communication has suffered a significant setback due to the ongoing Covid-19-induced pandemic. While regular meetings of scientific teams can be effectively held online, through zoom or skype, it is the big ... Continue reading
A New Method For Muon Energy Measurement In A Granular Calorimeter
Muons are very special particles. They are charged particles that obey the same physical laws and interaction phenomenology of electrons, but their 207 times heavier mass (105 MeV, versus the half MeV of electrons) makes them behave in an entirely diff... Continue reading
Assholery In Academia
Have you ever behaved like an a**hole? Or did you ever have the impulse to do so? Did you ever use your position, your status, your authority to please yourself by crushing some ego? Please answer this in good faith to yourself - nobody is looking behi... Continue reading
Twistors: A New Direction For A Unified Theory
What is a twistor, and why should we care? Well, I may not be the most qualified blogger out here to give you an answer, but I will try to at least give you an idea. Before I do, though, maybe first of all I should say why I am discussing here a rather... Continue reading
Higgs Decay To Muons: CMS Wins The Race
As of late we have been scratching the barrel of "straightforward" measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson, the particle discovered in 2012 by the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS and CMS experiments. But the one property determined in the measure... Continue reading
Systematic Uncertainties: The Heart Of The Matter In Physics Measurement
Experimental physics is about investigating the world in a quantitative manner, by exploiting our technology to carefully map the wealth of phenomena that make planets turn around stars, atoms stick together, and hearts to beat. All of that can be unde... Continue reading
L’eccitazione per un “eccesso”: XENON1T
Martedì 14 Luglio ore 19 aperitivo con Marco Selvi e Giovanni Mazzitelli, in diretta YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GiovanniMazzitelli Recentemente in fisica e’ sempre piu’ difficile fare nuove scoperte. I fenomeni da studiare sono impercettibili e le tre grandi teorie, Relatività Generale, Modello Standard e il … Continua a leggere → Continue reading
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