The Sassi of Matera in black and white: tufa houses carved into the rock face, stacked in tiers.

About me

Antonio Marrone

Full Professor of Theoretical Physics

Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” · INFN Sezione di Bari

Name
Antonio Marrone
Location
Bari, Italy
Position
Full Professor of Theoretical Physics
Subjects
Neutrinos, astroparticle physics

Biography still to write. This is where the career should go — degree and doctorate, the years at INFN and Bari, how the work turned towards neutrinos. Send me the outline and I will write it into this section.

Matera at night, seen from across the ravine: the lit town climbing the hillside under a black sky.

Photography

Matera at night, from across the Gravina.

Calligraphic manuscript of the opening of the Heart Sutra.

Heart Sutra

Form is emptiness

All things are empty: Nothing is born, nothing dies, nothing is pure, nothing is stained, nothing increases and nothing decreases. So, in emptiness, there is no body, no feeling, no thought, no will, no consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no imagining. There is nothing seen, nor heard, nor smelled, nor tasted, nor touched, nor imagined. There is no ignorance, and no end to ignorance. There is no old age and death, and no end to old age and death. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no end to suffering, no path to follow. There is no attainment of wisdom, and no wisdom to attain.
Photograph by Antonio Marrone.

Nāgārjuna

Dependent origination

That which originates dependently Does not cease and does not arise, Does not come and does not go, It is not annihilated and not permanent. It is not different and not the same. Not from itself, not from another, Not from both, and not uncaused, Nowhere does anything Ever arise.
Photograph by Antonio Marrone.