Cristian Joana

Physicist, cosmologist at ICTP-AP 🇨🇳 - 北京 -
"其心亦大矣, 神亦弛矣" -- 皮石 -
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[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@enricvd Atacar la immigració i anar de bracet amb els sionistes. S'ha de ser curt de gambals.

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

A historic day in China’s space program!

China’s Long March-10B has successfully completed its maiden flight—and recovered its first stage via a sea-based net. This marks the country’s first-ever controlled rocket recovery. A major leap toward reusable launch capabilities. 🚀🌊🇨🇳

[CERN @CERN]

François Englert (1932 – 2026)

It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93.

Read more: https://t.co/PkTgBpEPFL

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Physicist François Englert passed away on 18 June 2026 at age 93 in Uccle, Belgium.

Best known for co-developing, with Robert Brout, the mechanism that explains how elementary particles acquire mass, now called the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. This idea introduced the concept of a field permeating all of space that gives particles mass through their interaction with it, forming a key part of the Standard Model of particle physics. Although Peter Higgs independently proposed a similar idea, Englert’s work was central to the theory that was later confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012, and it earned him the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@WKCosmo @AlessandroStru4 Even when they find hints of new physics in the current LHC, the collaboration panics and it gets brushed under the carpet for fear of false positives. 😇

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@WKCosmo Boss!

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@tigranmusic You did it again! Congrats!

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@SportyScience @SlviaX @georgegalloway Sure, I also want to study in Catalan in Madrid.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@SlviaX @georgegalloway I am Catalan, I want a Catalan state or federation (with Europe). Clearly, I am not a fan of PSOE. But for f*k sake, it is about time that there a someone in Europe, with leader capabilities, saying the right thing. Hope it goes beyond just nice words.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@Victor_Puig_ @netanyahu It turns out, that in these matters, he is speaking on my behalf.

Quina puta vergonya feu.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@coachbrucepearl Bon vent! Mal parit!

[Yashar Akrami @YasharAkrami]

An open letter to the global academic community on the situation in Iran and the region, and its impact on scientific and academic life.

If you agree, please consider signing and sharing:
https://t.co/iSRTfuo8hk

#IranWar #AcademicFreedom #Science

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@enricvd No et compro el vendre-ho amb l'etiqueta "social-democrata". Ni es socialisme, ni es democrata. Es capitalisme, emparat pel circ de la partitocracia.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@enricvd Sí, clar, també el great Israel project i la Silicon Valley a la israeliana. Seguiu buscan guru’s educats al Canadà…

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

@JordiGraupera @jrutllant @mjesusostolaza O un Tema del tema. :)

[Miguel Zumalacarregui @miguelzuma]

What if the most massive black-hole merger ever detected… was lensed?

GW231123 shows signs of gravitational magnification and wave-optics diffraction — subtle distortions that reshape how we interpret the signal.

https://t.co/3jR0uKKIdc

[International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess]

Daniel Naroditsky (1995–2025)

Born on 9 November 1995 in San Mateo, California, Daniel Naroditsky became a prominent Grandmaster, author, coach and streamer whose influence extended far beyond the chessboard. He died just two weeks before his 30th birthday.

Chess entered his life at the age of six, when his older brother, Alan, brought several board games to entertain children at a party. Their father, Vladimir, an immigrant from Ukraine, taught them how to play chess. “I think a lot of people want to imagine that it was love at first sight and that my brother couldn’t pull me away from the chessboard… It was more of a gradual process, where chess slowly entered the battery of stuff we did to pass the time. A lot of my best memories are just doing stuff with my brother,” he told the New York Times in 2022, in an article announcing that he would be writing a chess column for the paper.

Read more: https://t.co/6qlDuQQaIi

[Tsinghua University @Tsinghua_Uni]

Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 103. His life stands as a timeless chapter in human history—one that shines not only for China but for the global community of thinkers and innovators. His legacy will live on forever.

[Cristian Joana @cjphy]

A Nobel peace prize to spark a "civil war", to be later intervened by the Zionist-NATO empire. "Rearm EU", definitely a promising business model: the war-death industry is always creating new markets.