Tommaso Dorigo
Researcher, INFN and Contributor at Science 2.0
Senior researcher @INFN_, Physicist @CMS, President @Usern_net, Coordinator @MODEcollaborat1, blogger @science2_0, Professor @UNIPD, editor @ElsevierPhysics
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5 days ago |
science20.com | Tommaso Dorigo
The human race has made huge progress in the past few thousand years, gradually improving the living condition of human beings by learning how to cure illness; improving farming; harvesting, storing, and using energy in several forms; and countless other activities. Progress is measured over long time scales, and on metrics related to the access to innovations by all, as Ford once noted. So it is natural for us to consider ourselves lucky to have lived "in the best of times".
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1 week ago |
science20.com | Tommaso Dorigo
For the third time in 9 years I am visiting San Pedro de Atacama, a jewel in the middle of nowhere in northern Chile. The Atacama desert is a stretch of extremely dry land at high altitude, which makes it exceptionally attractive for astronomical activities. In its whereabouts, e.g., are some of the largest telescopes in the world - the Cerro Paranal Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the planned Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) now being built in Cerro Armazones.
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1 month ago |
science20.com | Tommaso Dorigo
What? Another boring chess game? Buzz off, this is my blog, and if I feel like posting a chess game, that's what is going to happen. But if you like the game, stay here - this is a nice game. Again played after hiours today, and again on a 5' online blitz server (chess.com). What amazes me is that these days I seem to have a sort of touch for nice attacks and brilliant combinations. Let me show you why I am saying this.
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1 month ago |
science20.com | Tommaso Dorigo
After a very intense day at work, I sought some relaxation in online blitz chess today. And the game gave me the kick I was hoping I'd get. After a quick Alapin Sicilian opening, we reached the following position (diagram 1):As you can see, black is threatening a checkmate with Qxg2++. However, the last move was a serious error, as it neglected the intrinsic power of my open files and diagonals against the black king. Can you find the sequence with which I quickly destroyed my opponent's position? 1.
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1 month ago |
science20.com | Tommaso Dorigo
The highest-mass subnuclear particle ever observed used to the the top quark. Measured for the first time by the CDF experiment in 1994, and subsequently confirmed by CDF and D0 in 1995, the top quark is the heaviest elementary particle we know of, and it is a wonderful physical system per se, which has been studied with momentum in the past thirty years at the Tevatron and at the LHC colliders.
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hereby propose that the dark photon of some Standard Model extensions be from now called the SKOTON, preserving symmetry with the photon (so that both names come from Greek for, respectively, light and darkness), and avoiding the oxymoron (dark photon). https://t.co/pWPffS3pLQ
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