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ANTONINO ZICHICHICOLLANA DI CULTURA SCIENTIFICA

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Libro Le Interviste al Professore Zichichi

Libro Articoli del Professore Zichichi

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LIBRO PERSONAGGI LEGATI ALLA MIA ATTIVITÀ

Libro: in ricordo di scienziati e personalità amiche della Scienza (Bassani, Bell, Bernardini, Bizzarri, Cabibbo, Charpak, Coleman, De Sabbata, Dirac, Ferretti, Fermi, Marconi, Occhialini, Pedini, Poma, Pontecorvo, Puppi, Salam, Yukawa, Weisskopf, Bohr, ecc.)

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Libro: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS’S

(per scienziati ‘t Hooft, Gell-Mann, Schopper, ecc.)

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LIBRO DIRAC

ANTIMATTER PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE [paper]

DIRAC: GIGANTE DEL XX SECOLO [articolo Famiglia Cristiana 37/2002]

Antimateria [Il Giornale 24 settembre 2001]

UN PILASTRO FONDAMENTALE DELL’UNIVERSO SUBNUCLEARE: L’ANTIMATERIA [Messaggero 26 settembre 2001]

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Libro: Complexity and the Logic of NatureTABLE OF CONTENTS

I INTRODUCTION 7

II THE FOUR DEFINITIONS NEEDED AND COMPLEXITY 8

III.1 THE BASIC DISTINCTION BETWEEN EWRL (HISTORY) AND EBUS (SCIENCE) 11

III.2 THE PROBLEM OF “WHAT IF?” 12

III.3 A REMARK ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND SCIENCE 13

III.4 THE RIGOROUS BASIS OF EVOLUTION 15

IV THE SYSTEMS WHICH ARE CONSIDERED EXAMPLES OF COMPLEXITY 17

V THE ABILITY OF LEARNING AND THE INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE STUDY OF COMPLEXITY 25

VI A FEW WORDS ON THE MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS NEEDED 27

VII DO PROPERTIES COMMON TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS EXIST? 29

VIII LET US TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF THE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS 29

IX THE WHOLE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE 31

X DOES COMPLEXITY EXIST AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL? 37

XI THE PLATONIC SIMPLICITY FOR SPACE AND TIME IS VIOLATED 41

XII THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND: HOW WE GOT IT 41

XIII A FEW EXAMPLES OF DEVIATIONS FROM PLATONIC SIMPLICITY 44

XIV THE PLATONIC GRAND UNIFICATION 56

XV THE PLATONIC SUPERSYMMETRY 62

XVI THE WORLD COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE SUPERWORLD: THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF ANDERSON-FEYNMAN-BEETHOVEN-TYPE PHENOMENON 63

XVII THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE ISOSPIN 69

XVIII WILL COMPLEXITY EXIST IN THE FUTURE TEN CHALLENGES? 77

XIX THREE CONCLUSIONS AND THE FINAL ONE 78

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APPENDIX 1: Language Logic and Science 83

APPENDIX 2: Totally Unexpected Discoveries: A Personal Experience 111

APPENDIX 3: Elements of Scientific Rigor in the Theory of Evolution 143

APPENDIX 4: A recent Discovery on the Two Levels of Language 157

APPENDIX 5: The 62 powers of Ten are not Science Fiction 163

APPENDIX 6: We came from a Black-Hole and we are still in a Black-Hole 167

APPENDIX 7: The World, Thinking and Language: From Plato to the Vienna Circle to the Present 177

APPENDIX 8: Yukawa Goldmine. From his particle to the QGCW 193

APPENDIX 9: The Ten Challenges of Subnuclear Physics 217

APPENDIX 10: Chaotic Strings 271

APPENDIX 11: The Status of Reductionistic Achievements at the time of Majorana 275

REFERENCES 285

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LIBRO FERMI

• “The Enrico Fermi Legacy” [Opening Lecture at CERN for the Enrico Fermi

Celebrations -CERN, Geneva, September 2002]

• “Enrico Fermi: il signore delle stelle” [articolo 27 settembre 2001]

• “La genialità di Majorana vista da Fermi” [Famiglia Cristiana 11-2006]

• “Cent’anni fa nasceva il più grande galileiano del XX secolo” [Famiglia Cristiana

39-2001]

• Intervista del Dr Alberto Bordi, Redattore di Amministrazione Civile – Ministero

dell’Interno al Professore Antonino Zichichi, Presidente del Centro Enrico Fermi

e Presidente della WFS [25 gennaio 2006]

• Intervista del Dr Rino Giacalone [La Sicilia 30 settembre 2005]

• “Enrico Fermi, il più grande galileiano del ventesimo secolo” [Il Messaggero 27

settembre 2001]

• “Ricordi del mio maestro” di Tsung Dao Lee [Il Giornale 28 settembre 2001]

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Libro: BASIC PAPERSA. ZICHICHI PAPERS

ON THE PROBLEM “WHY SCIENCE” INDEX

[1] RIGOROUS LOGIC IN THE THEORY OF EVOLUTIONA. Zichichi, Proceedings of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, Plenary Session on “Scientific Insights into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life”, Vatican City (2008).

[2] BIG BANGS AND GALILEAN SCIENCEA. Zichichi, Il Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 124 B N. 1, Italian Physical Society, 115-119 (January 2009).

[3] WHY SCIENCE IS NEEDED FOR THE CULTURE OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: THE MOTOR FOR PROGRESSA. Zichichi, Public Service Review European Union, 18, UK (2009).

[4] THE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY AND THE TRUTH ABOUT ITALY - La Culla della Democrazia e la VeritàA. Zichichi, translated by Barbara Zichichi; original in Italian published in Il Giornale (29 luglio 2009).

[5] LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND SCIENCEA. Zichichi, Proceedings of the 27th Session of International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies - 2002, World Scientific, pages 413-430 (2003).

[6] COMPLEXITY EXISTS AT THE FUNDAMENTAL LEVELA. Zichichi, in Proceedings of the 2004–Erice Subnuclear Physics School, Vol. 42, pages 251-327, World Scientific (2007); presented at Desy, Hamburg, November 2005; see also “The Ten Challenges of Subnuclear Physics”, A. Zichichi, in Proceedings of the International Conference on “Quantum [un]speakables” in Commemoration of John S. Bell, 10-14 November 2000, International Erwin Schrödinger Institut (ESI), Universität Wien (Austria), pages 429-477 (2002).

[6a] COMPLEXITY AT THE FUNDAMENTAL LEVELA. Zichichi, OECD Global Science Forum – 19th Meeting, Tempio di Adriano, Piazza di Pietra, Rome, Italy (9 October 2008).

[6b] COMPLEXITY SUPERSYNTHESISA. Zichichi, in 2007–Erice Subnuclear Physics School (1 September 2007).

[7] LANGUAGE, LOGIC, SCIENCE AND THE CULTURE OF OUR TIME A. Zichichi, presented at the 36th Sessions of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, Erice (Italy), 28 August 2003.

[7a/b] SCIENCE AND SOCIETY / SCIENZA E SOCIETÀA. Zichichi (2003-2005).

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[8] ‘THE QGCW PROJECT’ A PROJECT TO STUDY THE NEW WORLDA. Zichichi [febbraio 2010].

[9a] UNA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA PER L’ITALIA DEL III MILLENNIOA. Zichichi [24 maggio 2002].

[9b] DA GALILEI AL SUPERMONDO A. Zichichi, Prolusione per l’inaugurazione dell’Anno Accademico 2001-2002, University of Bologna (27 October 2001).

[9bb] IL SUPERMONDOA. Zichichi, Lezione Magistrale, Conferimento Laurea h.c. University of Turin (21 May 2004).

[9c] TOTALLY UNEXPECTED DISCOVERIES: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCEA. Zichichi, Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences “Paths of Discovery”, Vatican City, 5-8 November 2004.

[9d] TERRORISM, CULTURE AND JOHN PAUL IIRichard L. Garwin, Tsung-Dao Lee, Karl K. Rebane, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Kai M.B. Siegbahn and Antonino Zichichi, Edited by H.E. Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo – Bishop-Chancellor Pontificia Academia Scientiarum and Eng. Claude Manoli – Secretary General World Federation of Scientists (2002).

[9e] THE CULTURAL EMERGENCYA. Zichichi, presented at the 27th Sessions of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, Erice (Italy), 20 August 2002.

[10] COMPLEXITY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVELpresented at INFN – ALICE, Catania, 11 January 2005;presented at Dublino, 26 February 2005;presented at Padoa, March 2005.

[11] COMPLEXITY AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIESA. Zichichi, presented at the 36th Sessions of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, Erice (Italy), August 2006; presented also at the Meeting organized by the Minister of Science, Rome, 23 January 2003.

[12] LA SCIENZA E LA CULTURA DEL NOSTRO TEMPOA. Zichichi, presented at the Meeting “Un Ponte tra Scienza e Società” organized by Circolo della Stampa, Milan, 23 January 2003; presented also at the Meeting “Scienza nelle Scuole” organized by the Minister of Science, Complesso Monumentale del San Michele, Rome, 6 October 2005.

[13] Supersymmetry [A Lecture to Celebrated the 60th Anniversary of Franco Iachello, Highly Specialized Seminars, Erice, 28 March 2003]

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Libro MY LIFEADDENDAAddendum–A Brief Curriculum. 4

Addendum–B List of Labs and Institutions created by Antonino Zichichi in addition to the Galileo Galilei Foundation. 7

Addendum–C Copy of the Law for the “Ettore Majorana Prize – Erice – Science for Peace”. 34

Addendum–D List of “Ettore Majorana Prize – Erice – Science for Peace” winners. 36

Addendum–E An article published in “New Scientist” on 11 July 1985 says «Antonino Zichichi, a scientific champion of the kind that Britain desperately needs». 37

Addendum–F Volume n. 1 of the Galilean Triptych. 39

Addendum–G Volume n. 2 of the Galilean Triptych. 40

Addendum–H Volume n. 3 of the Galilean Triptych. 41

Addendum–I Some pages of the n. 2 Galilean Triptych and the volume to celebrate the 450 Anniversary of the Michelangelo’s Basilica. 42

ADDENDUM–B–ENCLOSURESEnclosure–1 The Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture. 9

Enclosure–2a ECFA-LEP 1979 Progress ReportA. Zichichi ed., ECFA/79/39 (CERN, Geneva, 1980), 304. 17

Enclosure–2b The Roots of LEP and LHCR. Aymar, L. Cifarelli, L. Rossi and M. Vivargent, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of CERN. In honour of A. Zichichi in recognition for his important contributions to INFN and Italian Particle Physics and to CERN and European Particle Physics. CERN/DG-2004-306/0 (1 September 2004). 18

Enclosure–3 The Gran Sasso Laboratory 1979-1999. A vision becomes realityto celebrate the 20th anniversary of the project by A. Zichichi. A. Bettini, INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (1999). 22

Enclosure–4 From the Preshower to the New Technologies for Supercollidersin honour of A. Zichichi. B.H. Wiik, A. Wagner and H. Wenninger (eds), World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics Vol. 31 (2002). 23

Enclosure–5 Averting Disaster: Science for Peace in a Perilous Age. The Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies: From 1981 to 2009 W.A. Barletta and H. Wegener (eds), World Scientific (2010). 27

Enclosure–6a Advances in Technology for high-energy Subnuclear Physics: Contribution of the Laa Project D. Acosta, ... and A. Zichichi, Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 13:10-11 (1990). 32

Enclosure–6b The LAA Project G. Anzivino, ... and A. Zichichi, Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 13:5 (1990). 33

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Libro L’Antimateria

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Libro Archimede

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Libro Un po’ di Scienza nella vita di tutti i giorni

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Libro Muro di Berlino

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L’Ateismo è un Atto di Fede nel NullaLa Matematica del Creatore siamo noiNon è un’opinione la Matematica del Creatore siamo noiLa Matematica non è un’opinione quella del Creatore siamo noi

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