Talk:Ettore Majorana

Physics World Article

There is a featured article on Majorana and his work in the August 2006 edition of Physics World by salvatore Esposito, might be of interest to anyone editing this article.

Paddyohale 19:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Astrophysical Journal Article: not Ettore Majorana, but Quirino Majorana

"He also worked on an idea that mass may exert a small shielding effect on gravitational waves, which did not gain much traction.[9]" [9] Russell, Henry Norris (December 1921). "On Majorana's Theory of Gravitation". Astrophysical Journal. 54: 334–346. Bibcode:1921ApJ....54..334R. doi:10.1086/142649.

This is a 1921 paper. Ettore Majorana would have been 15 year old. Instead this fits the work of Quirino_Majorana on gravity shielding. 82.244.80.154 (talk) 22:41, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Pronunciation

How is the 'j' in Majorana pronounced? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.160.40 (talk) 18:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

"Y". 116.14.30.184 (talk) 11:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm so sorry, I can't have been logged in. That was me. Attinio Torio Protoattinio Uranio 11:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

So it's "MY-or-ah-nə"? — kwami (talk) 06:34, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Nearly: "MY-or-ah-na". Last "a" as in "Arizona" :-) --2.40.48.137 (talk) 07:06, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Okay. That's what we have. Just wanted to be sure. — kwami (talk) 07:40, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:49, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

"Hypothesis that he solved how to make classical objects disappear and reappear like quantum particles, and caused himself to appear and reappear between here and a parallel universe, in "Tiger Found" a novel by Steven Gale" Seriously? This is supposed to be a serious hypothesis along those raised by his friends? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.139.226.36 (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

External links

Reference 9, to Adnkronos, is now dead. Non è stata trovata nessuna notizia per l'indirizzo specificato. SNStuart (talk) 01:48, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Ages and Years

This states that in 1937 he became a professor at Naples at the age of 37. If he was born in 1906 then this makes no sense. Which is correct? I will check the linked source and potentially correct to reflect this Stirfryannie (talk) 10:31, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

IDH

Hi, the hypothesis that Majorana may have accidentally discovered a method of generating an interdimensional portal or for that matter discovered one, isn't completely implausible. Its been suggested by some very prominent scientists that ball lightning may in fact be the opening of a tiny white hole, and as such could by itself account for many of the anomalies observed throughout history. My reasoning is that a very small traversable wormhole might have formed nearby caused by solar activity. Intriguingly this isn't completely impossible as some variants of the GR field equations allow for very small amounts of exotic matter formed by primordial expansion of rotating cosmic strings, that by themselves might stabilize a wormhole. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.111.199.23 (talk) 08:57, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

No mention of his split electron theory

There is no mention in this article of his splitting electron theory, now being applied ot photons also. Serious omission.2600:1700:7890:5A40:5420:53A8:6349:7FF9 (talk) 21:48, 13 December 2021 (UTC)