http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog Rambling speeches of a Physicist Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:51:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Repubblica sulla fine del mondo http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/index.php/2008/09/09/apocalypse-now/ ... 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/