Physics
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With this post I would like to present a short update of my personal life to the few readers who are interested in that topic. You know, when I started writing online (over 20 years ago!), blogs used to contain a much more personal, sometimes introspective ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2025 - 6:56am
- USERN: 10 Years Of Non-Profit Action Supporting Science Education And Research
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The 10th congress of the USERN organization was held on November 8-10 in Campinas, Brazil. Some time has gone by, so it is due time for me to report on the event. I could not attend in person for a cause of force majeure, but I was connected via zoom, and ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2025 - 9:26am
- A Great Year For Experiment Design
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While 2025 will arguably not be remembered as a very positive year for humankind, for many reasons- first and foremost, raging wars and raising inequalities-, as we near its end some have tried to find good things to say about this particular revolution of ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 27 2025 - 1:29pm
- Letter To A Demanding PhD Supervisor
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A fundamental component of my research work is the close collaboration with a large number of scientists from all around the world. This is the result of the very large scale of the experiments that are necessary to investigate the structure of matter at t ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 11 2026 - 12:32pm
- 2026 Plans
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This year opened in slow motion for me, at least work-wise. I have been on parental leave since December 16, when my third and fourth sons were born within one minute from one another, but of course a workaholic can never stand completely still. In fact, e ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 22 2026 - 10:51am
- RIP- Hans Jensen
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Today I was saddened to hear of the passing of Hans Jensen, a physicist and former colleague in the CDF experiment at Fermilab. There is an obituary page here with nice pics and a bio if you want detail on his interesting, accomplished life. Here I thought ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 23 2026 - 9:30am
- On The Illusion Of Time And The Strange Economy Of Existence
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I recently listened again to Richard Feynman explaining why the flowing of time is probably an illusion. In modern physics time is just a coordinate, on the same footing as space, and the universe can be described as a four-dimensional object — a spacetim ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 24 2026 - 11:40am
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