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Italy, US, France, Canada. Loop quantum gravity, relational QM, time, Anaximander. A boat, mountains, too much love too many dreams too short the life.

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Sky TG24 mi chiama per chiedermi di intervenire in diretta domattina sul dibattito su donne in fisica. Suggerisco che invitino una donna. Mi rispondono che è meglio sia un uomo a dire che ci sono donne scienziate, perché detto da un uomo "è più autorevole". 🤨
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Israelis massacre Palestians: no problem for the West. Palestians massacre Israelis: the West is totally shocked. Decades and decades like that, and continuing. If this is not racisms, what is it?
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Caro Roberto #Saviano , l'amministrazione della mia città, #Verona , ti leva la cittadinanza? Ovviamente non è un'offesa a te, che hai ben altri riconoscimenti. È un'offesa ai veronesi come me. Amo Verona, ma mi fa così spesso vergognare di essere veronese...
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Fermatevi, pazzi! State trascinando l'Europa in una guerra enorme, in una catastrofe colossale! Pensateci: per nulla! Solo perché non siete più capaci di smettere di litigare dopo tutti gli insulti di cui vi siete riempiti la bocca per due ann!
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Gaza
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Today we are all South Africans.
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Palestinian physicist Sufyan Tayeh was killed by an Israeli attack in Gaza. He was president of the Islamic University of Gaza, held a UNESCO chair, was ranked in the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University. With him, many others equally important human beings.
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Putin is disgusting: how can he dare invade a country and killing human beings? Only the Americans are entitled to regularly do so!
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Giornali di destra hanno scritto di una mia partecipazione a una conferenza pacifista a Roma. Per @ilfoglio_it e @ilgiornale sarei primo firmatario del relativo manifesto. Come spesso con questi giornali, è tutto falso. Non ero alla conferenza, non ho scritto il manifesto.
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Stop, you fools! You are dragging Europe into a huge war, a catastrophe! For no real reason! Just because you're no longer able to stop arguing, after all the insults you've filled your mouth with, during the last two years! Like stupid neighbours fighting for 20 inches...
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Biden "outraged and heartbroken" by the deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza, one of which American. Not so much by the deaths of 30.000 innocent Palestinian, it seems.
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Five words are sufficient to stop the Ukraine madness: "NATO won't expand to Ukraine". So hard to say them?
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@riotta L'America invece non ha bisogno di troll per fare propaganda: ha i giornalisti.
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Remember our leaders claming that sanctions will crush Russia? Russia growth prediction is 2.6% (IMT). the fastest after China and India. Russia trades with the planet; the West is isolated in its fading illusion of world domination. We must collaborate, not fight.
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Finally a reasonable voice also in the political space.
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We ask our partner that, as the Government of Spain, we bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Here is my official statement 👇
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Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. My best book, Anaximander, available in the UK on the 23rd February.
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@riotta Rispondo seriamente: non mi auguro la vittoria di nessuno. Mi auguro che si smetta ora di combattere, uccidere innocenti. Ci si metta a discutere. E se si discuterà per decenni, come a Cipro o Belfast, pazienza. Il problema delle guerre non è chi vince: è come evitarle e fermarle
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Congratulations to NASA, who just landed a robot on Mars (by the way, the Soviets did it 50 years ago)
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GENERAL RELATIVITY: THE ESSENTIALS published last week, today fresh copies were delivered home
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If the leaders of the two most powerful nations of the planet meet and immediately after one of the two calls the other “a dictator”, how far are we from World War III?
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It is out!! 50 Nobels, including the Dalai Lama, support the "Simple Proposal to humankind": resources to address the planetary urgencies by a negotiated global decrease of military spending. Please sign in support!! #GlobalPeaceDividend @GlobalPeaceDivd
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@AngeloCiocca Dear Mr. @pierremoscovici , as Italian, I apologize for the offensive and stupid behavior of @AngeloCiocca . He does not represent me and the large majority of the Italians. #Strasburgo #ItaloImbecilli
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Whoever elected, trumpism has won. Wasn't a glitch; was't a moment of confusion. It's half America, millions and millions of people, big powers, churches, newspapers, money, think tanks, a political class. Is the sad reality of our world. It is not Trump: it is half a country.
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@riotta @ilfoglio_it @lucianocapone @NATO Ciao Gianni @riotta . Guarda che ti sbagli; l'articolo che citi aveva informazioni errate: non ero alla conferenza e non sono primo firmatario di un bel nulla. Quello che auspico, come quasi tutto il mondo, è che invece di ammazzarci si discuta. Non vittoria, ma pace. Tu no?
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... quer covo d'assassini che c'insanguina la tera sa benone che la guera è un gran giro de quatrini... Trilussa
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1 year
Fabulous. Fascinated by quantum physics? Go for it. A totally new perspective on the quantum story. "Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World": by Bob Coecke and Stefano Gogioso.
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@Ofir_Arzi Dear Ofir, what you are posting are horrible massacres. They are horror and my heart is fully with the sufferance of the people. Is your heart with innumerable innocent civilians now massacred in Gaza by Israeli bombs? Or your TV does not show this side of the story?
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Total income tax (federal state and local) as a function of the income: evolution during the last 70 years in the US (source: NYT)
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Il Film "L'Ordine del Tempo" di Liliana Cavani, tratto dal mio libro, è su Amazon Prime e altre piattaforme. 😍😍😍
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Mancano drammaticamente letti di cure intensive? Li avevamo...
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La propagando occidentale scatenata contro il Qatar è disgustosa. Pelosa e ipocrita. La paglia nell'occhio del mio fratello, per non guardare la trave nel mio.
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Sometime I have difficulty understand humans. Is it so difficult? I do not extend NATO to your borders, you do not invade Ukraine. Do we have to keep behaving like posturing chimps all the time? I am the biggest! No, I am the biggest! And if we were reasonable, once in a while?
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NYT: "Israel Expanding Ground Attack in Gaza as Biden Urges Aid Increase". Whitewashed sepulchres.
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The reaction to #pandemia in Europe: "Oh my god: people die". The reaction to #pandemia in the US: "Oh my god: the economy collapses".
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It is impressive how well AI reproduces humans: it shoots nonsense very much like humans after a bit too many drinks...
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Alla conferenza a Bologna ieri un ragazzo ha dato per me a Laura un foglio con una domanda di fisica. Abbiamo perso il foglio e non so come rintracciarlo. Se sei tu e leggi questo tweet, mandami una mail. carlo
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Apple has chosen The Order of Time (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) as one of the best books of the year so far.
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(Ma non ho nulla contro i pacifisti, ovviamente!)
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My collection of articles is coming soon! You can pre-order and pick up a signed copy here: @Waterstones
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La TV riporta indignata che la Cina vieta la diffusione della BBC. Omette un dettaglio: La Gran Bretagna ha vietato la diffusione la Tv cinese CGTN pochi giorni prima. Curiosa idea della libertà di informazione: gli occidentali possono censurare i cinesi, ma non viceversa?
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Not always easy being journal editor. Here the reaction of an author with an article not accepted for publication: "Carlo .. corrupt crook ... Is it your Italian heritage (MAFIA MENTALITY) that leaves you with no conscience? I will pray that you meet a horrid demise!"
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Big war coming near, Australia on fire, Yemen in tears. Why we take idiots as our leaders? #WWIII #AustraliaOnFire
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Papa: "Addolorato per #SantaSofia che diventa moschea". Non capisco. Museo diventa luogo di Dio: non dovrebbe esserne felice? Se preferisce musei perché non trasforma chiese in musei? Forse gli va bene il Dio suo, ma non il Dio degli altri? "Il mio Dio è più bello del tuo?"
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Finally out a good intro movie to Loop Quantum Gravity!
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For Julian Assange
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Civilian killed so far, in the illegal unprovoked Russian aggression to Ukraine: 5,718. Civilian killed in the illegal unprovoked Western aggression to Afghanistan: 46,319. Civilian killed, in the illegal unprovoked Western aggression to Iraq: 113,728.
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The Western narrative -Afghans fearing Talibans and cherishing Western democracy- has melted like snow. You do not conquer a country in a flash, with less than a quarter of the government's solders, no air power, no tanks, unless you have the true support of the population.
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Benedict #Cumberbatch reading my texts is fantastic . A short extract below. The full text free for 30 days here: . #ListenIn ⁽ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ᵗʰᵉⁿ ᵗᵒ ᶜᵃⁿᶜᵉˡ 😈⁾
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I'm searching for the easiest way to illustrate quantum strangeness. How about this: You want to hit a target behind a wall with two windows, with a dart. There are target's positions that you can hit if either window is open, but you cannot hit if both are open. Other ideas?
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Il 7 marzo alle 18:30 sono a Roma al MAXXI:
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Bad faith of the NewYorkTimes: "The US generates 14% of global carbon emissions, China responsible for 31%", without adding that Cina's population is more than 4 times the US. Emission of each American are higher, not lower than a Chinese!
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Il Congresso mondiale delle famiglie contro il divorzio, la contraccezione, l’aborto e i diritti delle famiglie arcobaleno, a Verona, la mia amata città, è per me ragione di vergogna profonda.
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Thanks @CNN ! From quantum physics to international politics, all the way to the state of fundamental physics, all in a few minutes...
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Viva viva @Sci_Hub !! (I could not have done science without it.)
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DO NOT BUY MY BOOK "General Relativity, the Essentials" NOW. The current printout is bad. Wait for the correct version. If already purchased ask @CambridgeUP (directcs @cambridge .org) for replacement.
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9/11: terrible tragedy bringing extreme pain. The day Americans felt on themselves what their country routinely inflicts to others. Many innocent people died that day. Far more innocent Afghani civilians have been killed by US bombing, since. And if we stopped these massacres?
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tomorrow i am at the british library in london talking about Anaximander and the Nature of Science
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I have finished (re-)reading The Moon Is Down, by John Steinbeck. If you want to understand what has happened to the US forces in Afghanistan, read it.
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If you could choose where to be born, which country would you choose:
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Brilliant Sabine @skdh ! Newton explained innumerable phenomena with one constant. The "multi-universe" explains one constant with innumerable universes!
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Ho una domanda. Giorgia Meloni ha chiuso la sua (bella) dichiarazione la notte della vittoria con "l'Italia ci da fiducia, noi non la tradiremo". Bello. Poi: "...come non l'abbiamo mai tradita." Per i suoi amici, questo è un riferimento al 1945? O me lo immagino io?
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How easy it is to recognize the genocides committed by others. What about recognizing those committed by our own countries? #GenocideArmenien
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Next week I am at the British Library in London UK (and streaming online), to talk about the nature of science and my beloved Anaximander
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In only 2 countries officials say that policies are inspired by the "great vision of the President": United State and North Korea. But only one transforms a national emergency announcement into advertising for the large companies. Disgusting and hypocritical.
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Mi manchi e mi mancherai tantissimo.
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È in corso una campagna per spingere il governo a sostenere maggiormente la ricerca in Italia. Se volete sostenerla, questo è il link alla raccolta firme di sostegno. Io ho firmato.
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Varie Istituzioni italiane hanno dato il patrocinio a una conferenza contro il divorzio, la contraccezione, l’aborto, i diritti delle famiglie arcobaleno e delle persone LGBT+. Io ho firmato una petizione perché ritirino il patrocinio.
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Ma ho visto anche degli zingari felici / corrersi dietro, far l'amore / e rotolarsi per terra. Ho visto anche degli zingari felici / in Piazza Maggiore / ubriacarsi di luna, di vendetta e di guerra.
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