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all. It’s not as if we have sent a probe to look at that solar system up close. So, anyone who says ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 21 2016 - 4:23pm

and Ian. In all cases we had very interesting conversations about their research and selected topics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2016 - 4:05pm

Without Pauli’s principle all electrons would settle in the lowest-energy orbit around atomic nuclei; that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am

electron energy scale, muon momentum scale, and all the other small nuisances that one has to worry about ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 23 2017 - 9:57am

to be random processes, and each observed outcome should be independent of all others, then the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2017 - 9:16am

of each jet, with perfect resolution and all- would be unable to provide a very strong discrimination ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2018 - 3:52pm

* S The parameters k and f describe all possible partitions. Now, with some simple algebra, we can derive ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2019 - 7:27am

elementary particles, that behaves a lot like macroscopic spin, and makes all the difference: particles of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 23 2020 - 11:52am

study both our own galaxy and all others we can see, building bigger telescopes and even sending one ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 16 2021 - 9:41am

Collaboration is publishing, at a pace of about 100 per year. I cannot claim that I contribute to all those ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2021 - 8:27am

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Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 8 hours ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 18 hours ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 1 day ago
bizdean
Thank you for this, IrishNeanderthal. Actually I believe what’s going on in America is under-hyped. The mainstream press is far too easy on Mr. Trump, who is convicted of multiple felonies and...

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shokatali
Interesting take on political diversity and how narratives shape perception. It’s always refreshing to explore different viewpoints. After diving into heavy topics like this, I like to decompress...

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