3 papers
physics.pop-ph2025
Causality in Physics: From Galileo to Einstein, and Beyond
Alessandro De Angelis
Causality is one of the most fundamental -- and yet elusive -- concepts in physics. From its intuitive role in everyday experience to its formal and often implicit role in scientif…
physics.hist-ph2025
Ugo Amaldi, the DELPHI Collaboration and The Physics Legacy of LEP
Alessandro De Angelis
This article offers a portrait of the DELPHI experiment at CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) through the scientific life and leadership of Ugo Amaldi. It traces how DEL…
physics.hist-ph2025
Galileo Galilei and Satellite Navigation
Alessandro De Angelis
In 1492, for the first time, an unknown ocean opened up before sailors: weeks of navigation and no idea how to pinpoint their location. Since ancient times, navigators had known ho…