http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog Rambling speeches of a Physicist Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:39:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... 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 http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/17/john-wheeler-is-dead/ I don't understand the very reason pop3 email clients cannot download 10646 messages all in-a-row... You cannot even say that they download messages one thousand a time, because for every "Get New Mail" you click, they download a number of mails randomly oscillating between 400 and 600... Furthermore, the new phaenomenon is ... http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/13/fast-claws/ Funny thing: I deactivated some time ago comments to be able to check for spam the old comments (deleted 15.000 of spam comments...). I forgot to reactivate comments... But spambots were still able to spam! Now I installed an antispam filter, and reactivated the comments... Let's hope the filter will work! http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/08/comments-activated/ White moves. White moves. Unfortunately I was black... A couple moves before, with arrogance I chose not to do N. ... c1 N+1. ..., with promotion of the pawn, hunting for a nice checkmate. I should have promoted the pawn, because we saw only the following lines: 1. Qe8+, Kf6 2. Qf8+, Kg6 ... http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/06/chess-problem/ 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 ... http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/06/decay-seen-or-not-seen/ I admit I am surprised : the situation of Lebanon was quite unknown by me. Dozen slain as Lebanese Army fights islamists http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/shit-happens/ Cow gone mad at http://cowgonemad.wordpress.com Update your bookmarks (I updated mine only today... Quite a long time since the last time I worked on the blog... http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/05/cow-gone-mads-new-url/ 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? http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/05/silicon-pmts-im-back/ 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 ... http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/03/10/time/ ... god himself! Think about it: an usual definition of "atheist" is "a person who do not believe in a trascendent entity who eventually created him". God cannot believe that he has been created by another thing... So God must be an atheist event if he exists. Find the faulty logic http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/and-the-ultimate-atheist-is/