This post is a review of the book Antimatter: What it is and why is it important in Physics and Everyday life by Beatriz Gato-Rivera. I had been looking for a book on the topic for a while and I found it displayed at the workshop I am attending in Spain. Then I was able to access it online. Before I start the review, some photos I took of the village of Benasque. A road in the village From across the river At the conference This is

Tony Leggett This post commemorates Sir Anthony 'Tony' Leggett, who was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 2003 (along with V. L. Ginzburg and A. A. Abrikosov), for making pioneering advances in our understanding of physics at low temperatures, and who passed away recently (1938-2026). Leggett's major contributions included explaining the superfluidity of Helium 3 (an outstanding problem in physics), and pioneering the study of macroscopic phenomena (he was among the firs

This post is a report on my visit this week to the city of Valencia in Spain. I was invited to give a talk at the Nanophotonics Technology Center which is part of the Polytechnical University in Valencia. Some highlights from the visit, which concludes tomorrow: The Center: The NTC is a center for telecom research, with advanced facilities, but also has two functioning companies situated in its building. These companies grew out of the research at the Center. I gave my talk i