Carlo Rubbia

thumb|The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. Carlo Rubbia OMRI (born on 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. Quotes The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists. Note: The Brazilian magazine Veja asked Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, “Do you believe in God? Source: Evolution Is Not a Fact, Awake! magazine, 1998, 8/8. If we count the galaxies of the world or we show existence of elementary particles, in an analogous way we probably cannot have evidence for God. But, as a research scientist, I am deeply impressed by the order and the beauty that I find in the cosmos, as well as inside the material things. And as an observer of nature, I cannot help thinking that a greater order exists. The idea that all this is the result of randomness or purely statistical diversity is for me completely unacceptable. There is an Intelligence at a higher level, beyond the existence of the universe itself. C. Rubbia, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, märz 1993. As quoted in If science exists, this means that there's a Logic, fame physicist said (April 4, 2017) The Temptation to Believe La tentazione del credere, Rizzoli, Milano 1987 Nature is constructed in such a way that there is no doubt that it cannot be so constructed by casuality. The more one studies the phenomena of nature, the more deeply one becomes convinced of this. There are natural laws of an incredible depth and beauty. One cannot think that all of this can be reduced to an accumulation of molecules. The scientist, in particular, fundamentally recognises the existence of a transcendent law, something that is outside and immanent to the natural mechanism. He recognises that this 'something' is the cause, that pulls the strings of the system. It is a 'something' that escapes us. The more you look into it, the more you realise that it has nothing to do with casuality. Since we all think that our being human is something that puts us above all other living beings on earth, we must also necessarily think that we were made in the image of something even more important than ourselves. What is most impressive about the question [of who we are and where we are going] is its universality. It is common to all. Il dilemma nucleare Carlo Rubbia con Nino Criscenti, Il dilemma nucleare, Sperling & Kupfer, 1987. ISBN 88-200-0639-1 Incipit The modern scientific method, and the consequent enormous power that Science has today, was born in Italy with Galileo Galilei. Quotes To know in the sense of Science is to predict. It is the ability to mathematize, calculate, measure, that allows modern man to build a bridge by predicting the mechanical behavior of the structure. (p. 2) The scientist is, for me, the man who wants to read the book of Nature, who is as passionate about it as and more than a novel and has, among other things, a great characteristic, that of never exhausting himself. (p. 4) However, the scientist, the moment he makes them known, loses control over the practical use of his discoveries. (p. 6) Explicit In 1934, the great physicist Lord Rutherford, who first discovered the existence of the nucleus, and is therefore to be considered the founding father of nuclear physics, said solemnly before the British Association for the Advacement of Science: « Anyone who says that, with the means at present at our disposal and with our present knowledge we can use atomic energy is talking moonshine», which translated can be summarized: Based on the knowledge and technologies currently available, anyone who talks about the possible uses of nuclear energy speaks nonsense. Less than fifteen years later, Fermi had put the atomic pile into operation and the entire world shuddered at the nuclear mushrooms of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Interviews Il DNA lo prova: la vita sulla terra ha un solo padre, Liberal, 23 December 2011 The more science seeks and the more it finds clues to a single Creation being the work of a higher entity. The helix of DNA demonstrates this. We [physicists] arrive at God by walking the path of reason. Life: a creative act so perfect and so immense generated in its entirety in such a short and close time at the beginning of space and time. There is no science fiction without science, just as there is no science without science fiction. From an interview by Giovanni Valentini, Rubbia: "Né petrolio né carbone: soltanto il sole può darci energia", la Repubblica, 30 March 2008 Do you know when the last reactor in America was built? In 1979, thirty years ago! And do you know how important nuclear power is in French energy production? About 20 percent. But the sky-high costs of their 59 reactors have been borne de facto by the government, the state, to maintain the atomic arsenal. Let us remember that it takes 8-10 years of work to build a nuclear power plant and that the proposed technology is based on a fuel, uranium, of limited duration. Then there remains, throughout the world, the problem of waste. There is no safe nuclear. Or low slag production. There is a calculation of probabilities, so that every hundred years a nuclear accident is possible: and this evidently increases with the number of power plants. If anything, we can talk about an innovative nuclear power plant. Suffice it to say that a hypothetical square of mirrors, 200 kilometers long on each side, could produce all the energy needed by the entire planet. And an area of this size is equivalent to just 0.1 percent of the desert areas of the so-called sun-belt. To supply electricity to a third of Italy, an area equivalent to 15 gigawatt nuclear power plants, a solar ring as large as the Rome ring road would suffice. The sun is not subject to monopolies. And he doesn't pay the bill. Believe me, this is a great opportunity for our country: if we don't do it, the Americans will do it very soon, as happened with the computer twenty years ago. 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