Kick-Off Meeting Of AMVA4NewPhysics

Kick-Off Meeting Of AMVA4NewPhysics

The European network I am coordinating will have its kick-off meeting at CERN on September 16th. This will be a short event where we give a sort of "orientation" to the participants, in terms of who…
Help Category Theory - Fund A Female Scientist

Help Category Theory - Fund A Female Scientist

Category theory is a branch of mathematics which attempts a formalization in terms of simple elements and associations between them. A rather abstract construction, indeed, and certainly one above my…
The strong nuclear force

The strong nuclear force

Nuclear Glue The nucleus of an atom is made up of protons and neutrons.  Both have about the same weight although protons have a positive charge and neutrons have no charge (they are neutral).…
Neutrino hierarchies are special

Neutrino hierarchies are special

        The SM neutrino hierarchies are special   There is a noticeable difference between neutrino mixing angle hierarchy and the mass hierarchies of all three types of SM…
Accelerator-Based Experiments: What Next ?

Accelerator-Based Experiments: What Next ?

This morning I received a copy of the book "WHAT NEXT ? White Paper of CSN1", a publication of the Italian INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) addressing the question of what awaits us…
Superbradyonic Vacuum And Quantum Entanglement

Superbradyonic Vacuum And Quantum Entanglement

I was at the ICNFP 2015 Conference, spending two nights to prepare updated versions of two posters following an idea that I had on August 22 just before taking the plane for Crete (the possible space…
5 Myths About Gravitational Waves

5 Myths About Gravitational Waves

The scientists behind the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had detected gravitational waves, which are…