Soon Italy's candidacy to host the Einstein Telescope will be officially announced , with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni .
This was specified by the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini , who underlined how the government believes "a lot in the initiative", and "we believe - she continued - that the Sos Enattos mine is the perfect place , and not only we say it, but the Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi. If he says so, we believe it and we work for it with all our strength».
Italy has therefore identified the Nuorese mine as the ideal place for the construction of the large infrastructure for the study of gravitational waves.
«It is an extremely innovative and sensitive underground observatory through which we will be able to study more and better the deep universe, dark matter and dark energy. There are those who say in a very lyrical way that we will be able to hear the music of black holes », added Bernini.
«This is not just a statement of fundamental and theoretical physics, there is everything: cosmology, astrophysics, there will be a great enhancement of some sectors such as mechanics, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, optics . Imagine everything that will revolve around a research infrastructure of this kind in terms of the acquisition of new technologies and of course great enhancement of the territory that will host it. We believe in it very much,” he underlined.
Yesterday a bomb was found in front of the entrance to the Sar Grav laboratory of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics which houses the equipment of the Archimedes experiment, in the Sos Enattos mine. An act of intimidation widely condemned and a stain on the image of the mine, which someone wanted to dirty perhaps without understanding the value of the initiative.
