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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Sep 9

Working at the CERN Courier is a great honour, and I am deeply grateful for it. This time, we had the pleasure of wrestling with the history of quarkonia, the X17 anomaly, ATLAS's confirmation of a top-antitop excess, and much more. I hope you'll enjoy our latest issue!

CERN Courier @cerncourier.bsky.social · Sep 9

The new CERN Courier looks ahead, to the future of particle physics - and back to the outstanding year of 1964. The story of quarkonia spans all six decades, and its final chapter is now being written. Plus: data preservation, X17, dark energy and more.

cerncourier.com/p/magazine/

Magazine – CERN Courier

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Jul 9

I jumped on board as the train was shooting past at supersonic speed, but working on such a significant issue is a honour I struggle to capture in a post.

Go and read the new #CERNCourier – before I get too emotional!

CERN Courier @cerncourier.bsky.social · Jul 9

One hundred years ago today, Werner Heisenberg wrote to Wolfgang Pauli of radical ideas about quantum mechanics. As this special anniversary edition of #CERNCourier shows, a century has not sufficed to fully understand or apply the theory.

Read it now: cerncourier.com/p/magazine/

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CERN Courier @cerncourier.bsky.social · Jul 9

One hundred years ago today, Werner Heisenberg wrote to Wolfgang Pauli of radical ideas about quantum mechanics. As this special anniversary edition of #CERNCourier shows, a century has not sufficed to fully understand or apply the theory.

Read it now: cerncourier.com/p/magazine/

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Jun 7

The CERN Courier has been the high-energy physics magazine for almost seventy years. On a smaller scale, it has been my personal, essential source of information on the field.
It is thus with great pleasure that I announce I have joined it as an Associate Editor. I’ll do my best!

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Jun 7

I’ll spend my next week at Helgoland, celebrating 100 years of #quantum mechanics on Heisenberg’s legendary eureka island. If you’ll attend the conference as well, come shake my hand! 🧪🔬🔭

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · May 15

Ufff, luckily all people in my exact field start with a 160% credibility prior!

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Apr 10

I profoundly thank you for your kind words, which mean a lot to me. The one thing I love about your text is its absolute conceptual clarity — being clear commenting it was, thus, quite easy!

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Apr 8

Dear Professor Chen, I’m pleased and honoured to see this post!

This discussion is part of a foundations of physics physics I’m delivering on a weekly basis – and I think there’s no better place to explain why “laws” are interesting than your introduction!

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Eddy Keming Chen @eddykemingchen.bsky.social · Apr 8

Just found this (Italian!) YouTube breakdown of Laws of Physics by physicist @davidedebiasio.bsky.social on his channel Spazi Attorcigliati. He dives into the first 20 pages—ontology, nomology, laws as constraints. I'm honored!
Thanks to #ChatGPT I could follow along! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBD...

Le Leggi della Fisica (1/2) | Fisica: Filosofia e Fondamenti 3

YouTube video by Spazi Attorcigliati | Davide De Biasio

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 24

I am pleased to announce that, for the ‘Science Toolbox’ Festival, I will talk about quantum superpositions, measurements, wave functions of the universe, and parallel worlds. See you on 8 April at 6:30 p.m., in room P2 of the Paoloni complex – University of Padua.

#physics #lecture #quantum 🔬🔭🧪

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 24

One hundred years have passed since Werner Heisenberg, recovering on the Helgoland island, had the epiphany that allowed him to formulate his new science. To celebrate this anniversary, we will retrace the path that led many physicists to believe that every measurement branches reality.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 24

When you flip a quantum coin, there is a copy of you that sees heads and one that gets tails. It's a bold, radical proposal. Maybe, enough to grasp what physics suggests about the nature of the universe.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 24

Hugh Everett, while searching for the meaning of quantum mechanics, was confronted with a reality that split and proliferated endlessly. He realised that each experiment has the power to create as many worlds as are its possible
outcomes.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 24

How many parallel worlds are there out there?
How many copies of you, living almost identical lives, are reading these very lines?
How can we answer such questions?

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 17

I am surprised and saddened that hundreds of students graduate from QFT courses thinking that renormalisation is a trick and having no idea what an EFT is.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 12

Did you know that the “dark dimension hypothesis” suggests our universe might contain an extra spatial dimension at mesoscopic scales—potentially just a few micrometers across?

youtu.be/3trCZghXTsE?...

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String Theory Predictions through the Swampland! | Miguel Montero Interview

YouTube video by International Society for Quantum Gravity

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 12

He’s at the forefront of the swampland program, trying to assess which apparently consistent particle physics models can couple to a quantum theory of gravity.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 12

In my latest interview for the ISQG (International Society for Quantum Gravity), I had the pleasure of discussing these and several other questions with Dr. Miguel Montero, from the Instituto de Física Teórica in Madrid.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 12

What if the universe hides a tiny extra dimension just a few micrometers across?
How may string theory shape the world we observe?
Where shall we look for experimental signatures of quantum gravity?

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 1

The great challenge of nuclear disarmament is to move from "many" to "none" without passing through "few". It is an almost impossible task, but our very survival depends on it. We must find a solution.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Mar 1

A world where many possess nuclear bombs is tragic and dangerous. Yet, one in which only a few have them - and wield that power to subjugate, dominate and exterminate with impunity - is even worse.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Feb 21

Let me be clear: there wasn't a single instance in which Elon Musk displayed a sound grasp of physics – despite pretending otherwise.

He was a charlatan long before his Nazi era.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Feb 21

Do you know how sick you get when Elon Musk opens his mouth on history and politics? Well, that's how physicists have felt for years.

The man is the biggest bluff of the third millennium, a mishmash of Reddit threads and clickbait YouTube videos. Now, with a fresh sprinkle of neo-Nazism.

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · Feb 20

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A Sad Moment in American History

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · Feb 16

Here is the table of contents page

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