What happened to Ettore? 😎He may be still travelling in another dimension. The same as Harry Hudini.
Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist working in the 1920s and 30s who was regarded as a prodigy of his generation. He developed, amongst other things, the theory of how particles can be their own antiparticles (so-called Majorana fermions). This work is very relevant today in efforts to determine if neutrinos are their own antiparticles, one of the most important unsolved problems in particle physics today.
His work is now explored in the new Microsoft proposed use of a quantum platform designed with Fermions as qubits!. See my other post here and here.
Ettore Majorana disappeared during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples in 1938. He was only 32. His body was never found, and to this date, there are several theories concerning his disappearance.
Many hypotheses of what may have happened to him included suicide, kidnapping, murder, disillusionment (decoupling from society), accident, etc. The great Sicilian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, was convinced that Majorana decided to disappear because he foresaw that nuclear forces would lead to nuclear explosives a million times more powerful than conventional bombs, like those that would destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 😎He may be still travelling in another dimension. The same as Harry Hudini.
A few years ago, João Magueijo, a Portuguese ecosmologist and professor in theoretical physics at Imperial College London. He is a pioneer of the varying speed of light (VSL) theory who wrote an excellent biography of Majorana under the title A Brilliant Darkness. This book is a must-read book. I'm currently finishing the audio book version with Audible.
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