Rambling Hadrons

… age 96.
In Italy, politics made the news “unimportant”… As far as I and a couple friends of mine know, italian media were too occupied in commenting the elections…
New York Times obituary

There are mainly two ways to take into account non-zero neutrino masses…

Let’s modify the fields of the Standard Model (SM) by adding the right-handed neutrino. The main consequence is that in the SM lagrangian a mixing term for neutrino flavour pops up, parametrized by a matrix called the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix.
Let’s remove the renormalizability requirement […]

Silicon photo-multipliers, from a National School in Legnaro
I went to the meeting, found it interesting and longed for the pdf: today I finally downloaded and re-examined it.
Cool, isn’t it?

A seminar from Nicola Cabibbo… It was nice, interesting and stimulating! Perhaps I will write something about it later.
The painter who came to my home to paint the walls used a tricky method to check if the first stratus of paint were still wet: he used an Ohmeter!!! He did not know how it works, […]

Ball Lightning Created in the Lab
Cool!
I did not see the video yet.

Happy birthday to meee,
happy birthday to meeee,
happy birthday dear Pietrooo,
happy birthday to meeeeeee!
I gave myself as a present another 30/30 in an exam… So good!

You should emulate your heros, but don’t carry it too far, especially if they are dead
And thanks to the 1402 unique visitors of this week…

In Italy there is a saying, “to shoot at the Red Cross”, that basically means “to shoot with no mercy at someone that is already down and/or incapable of defending himself”. Something like “Maramaldo, you kill an already dead man!”… This last one comes from the Italian Renaissance: a captain of a mercenary army defeated […]

It is said that papers in string theory are published at a rate greater than the speed of light. This, however, is not problematic since no information is being transmitted.
Via FlipTomato
Oh well, take it easy men, it is just a joke! Though I think I know some people who would start a looooong flame over […]

The Physicist: What if the human brain has reached a point where it is sensitive on a subatomic level, a level where matter can appear and disappear, where time can run backwards or forwards? I mean, who is to say what’s possible, what isn’t possible?
The Mathematician: What flavor of crazy kool-aid do they make you […]