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30 April (2026)
29 April (2026)
Replying to @EnesOkullu
Indeed they do. What we see in this picture is actually a group meeting.
28 April (2026)
Replying to @SarokaVasil
true, instead I have the "delicacy" of having my co-authors come to me or meet them in a public space, as opposed to crashing to their place.
Back to Spain. Like Erdös, no need of a home anymore; from plane to conference to hotel to banquet to excursion to plane to office... in a loop.
26 April (2026)
Trying to reach the end of the great wall with Anton (Nalitov), who took this picture. I never get what I think I want or get to where I want to go, but I sometimes find something on the way.
25 April (2026)
The nice thing of a conference in the top University of China is that you can find next door talks that are actually even more related to you than those in the conference room. Hey, I was the blue Referee on this one. I'll come back to the surprising findings of Prof. Z. Yuan.
24 April (2026)
Now closer to the Great Wall, next for me will be a discussion of liquid light, at the TNT (Theory and New Technologies) 2026: doi.org/10.1063/5.0206…
As New and Theoretical as it gets.
As New and Theoretical as it gets.
"and then I said to her:
«Can I kiss your photons?
The light that scatters off your lips,
Can it bounce off mine too?»"
«Can I kiss your photons?
The light that scatters off your lips,
Can it bounce off mine too?»"
23 April (2026)
Discussing the strange world we live in with Nina Voronova (photo by Misha Glazov).
Straight from the plane to the stage of EPIC 2026. One moment you’re sleeping with some random stranger on the reactor of an aircraft zipping through the Asian night, the next you’re explaining how photons look weird only because of the way you look at them.
20 April (2026)
See also the nice overview by @gistdotscience gist.science/paper/2604.162…
18 April (2026)
Have you ever seen a correlation portal? On Monday in this thread.
I'll present our vision of the Tao from the polaritonic angle Monday in Beijing.
... to a completely new country, which, probably nobody in this audience ever visited ...
17 April (2026)
Monday on the arXiv, the Waltz goes Modern: my Armenian secret now in the open: bosons are 𝑛𝑜𝑡 correlated. At least not from classical states; and give me a bit more time to show that quantum states are also all alone, in their branches of the universe.
youtube.com/watch?v=gTmQon…
youtube.com/watch?v=gTmQon…
arxiv.org/localtime
I'm runnin' all in vain
Tryin' to catch
This fuckin' train
Time don't fool me no more
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendez-vous
This girl wouldn't wait
For the out of time
Out of time man
youtube.com/watch?v=EE7UNg…
I'm runnin' all in vain
Tryin' to catch
This fuckin' train
Time don't fool me no more
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendez-vous
This girl wouldn't wait
For the out of time
Out of time man
youtube.com/watch?v=EE7UNg…
Time don't do it again
Now I'm stressed and strained
Time made a foul out of me
Oh baby can't you see
It's a timing tragedy
Now I'm stressed and strained
Time made a foul out of me
Oh baby can't you see
It's a timing tragedy
Now it's half past three
I'm gonna be late again
Now it's half past four
I'm gonna be late again
Now it's half past four
14 April (2026)
13 April (2026)
To my surprise, there's a wine in Armenia (one of the oldest wine-making nation) called "Karas". Difficult not to think what a duprass would make of this in a restaurant at the foot of mount Ararat. I spent the evening with some people of my Karass, trying to avoid this thought.
They are linked to the "bodega del fin del mundo" in Patagonia connecting the beginning (Ararat) with the end (southernmost terroirs). Beautiful destinations to enjoy bottles of wine with people, if you can't a cup of wine with someone. At least I'll have done half of everything.
Piano at the coffee break (with profs Shubina and Kavokina). Pianists are the best.
12 April (2026)
Echmiadzin cathedral, or the story of Hripsime, who made a king so madly in love that he could never recover from the wrong he did in pursuing the impossible. Gregory had him convert Armenia. Christ marked this spot with a golden hammer where love failed but christianity started.
so the Christian church, basically all of religion, started with a petulant guy infatuated with an Italian girl who snubbed him. It's a beautiful story. I didn't know it... now it seems to me it couldn't have been any other way.
11 April (2026)
Long transit in Istanbul. Turkish coffee and International airport. What a combo. In company of Burgess, I'd be as well completely alone. He's dead and he's killing me with the pages he left behind. I should be composing coffee haikus instead...
Un café Turco
que mis amigos griegos
llamaban griego
Ese de polvo
el tambien, me encontra
sentado solo.
que mis amigos griegos
llamaban griego
Ese de polvo
el tambien, me encontra
sentado solo.
It's a very long trip to the land of Sayat Nova, and I travel alone nowadays. Those will be my travel companions. I had read much of "one hand clapping" years ago, but the alienation of this weird brain from his wife didn't talk much to me. It will probably ring differently now.
Now on a balcony in Yerevan, reading interpretations of Burgess's novel... indeed only little to do with the proclaimed decadence of western civilization.
Wikipedia: The phrase "one hand clapping", if translated literally into Malay, means "Bertepuk sebelah tangan", which usually means unrequited love when used in context of a relationship or romantic feelings. The English saying "It takes two to tango" has a similar connotation.
Tea, a Soviet avenue, a bit of time, a heap of deadlines, humming buzz from the city, the call from the mountains, myself at the center of it all... What am I missing, except everything?
I'm going to Armenia for the PLMCN 2026 where I'll speak about quantum optical vs quantum coherence; I'll make there the first official announcement of something I've been timidly alluding to in abstracts before but never to the point of bringing it on stage. Tomorrow in Yerevan!
10 April (2026)
Replying to @ronin21btc
Superb. A true gentleman in the noblest sense of the term.
Tout est là. Reggiani ajoute l'amour au deuxième couplet, mais Baudelaire l'avait oublié au premier.
J'ai sur le bout de la langue
Ton prénom presque effacé
Tordu comme un boomerang
Mon esprit l'a rejeté
Ton prénom presque effacé
Tordu comme un boomerang
Mon esprit l'a rejeté
9 April (2026)
What's X good for, or what does it mean? That something not be given to you, in the old pun construction "X me no X" where X is both a verb and a noun, and the only thing you have to not have it: Gift me no Gift (Theocritus), catch me no catch (Fiddler), Why me no Y (Fabrice)...
I'll never cease to be ravished by this burst of passionate exaltation from the string quartet number 5, whatever the quartet, whatever its speed, whatever its meaning. If sudden and unexpected intimacy could be set to music, I think it'd sound like this.
youtube.com/watch?v=gJYKJv…
youtube.com/watch?v=gJYKJv…
8 April (2026)
Mishima going all Wigner friendly: "Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason."
"The only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed."
7 April (2026)
This is where The Myth of Sisyphus missed the point. There might be some value to "positive nihilism": if you kill yourself everytime something goes wrong, you end up in a universe where you are successful: no rejection (of papers, of poems, etc.), only winning lottery tickets...
6 April (2026)
Replying to @KubrickPoint
Slooshy carefully, little bratty.
Modern Love Waltz — see how they dance, and touch, and get close to each other! youtube.com/watch?v=rlALf3…
April 9 ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢 youtube.com/watch?v=FOQPMj…
Catch the moon,
One-handed catch!
Come on, something, come on in, don't be shy,
Meet a guy,
Pull up a chair!
Catch the moon,
One-handed catch!
Come on, something, come on in, don't be shy,
Meet a guy,
Pull up a chair!
The little joys of proofreading at two in the morning...
5 April (2026)
The fascination is not for the music or performance. It is that the clarinetist is the typical INTJ woman—out of reach, restrained emotions, boyish—while the singer is the typical ESFP: warm, outgoing, accessible. The contrast is aching, with a rare glimpse in an INTJ's intimacy.
The meek He seeks, the beast He calms
The head of the good soul department
The head of the good soul department
4 April (2026)
Replying to @DLViguier
Quand la critique est juste, elle est toujours magnanime.
J'arrive, bien sûr j'arrive
Mais ai-je jamais rien fait d'autre qu'arriver
youtube.com/watch?v=vBHfoG…
Mais ai-je jamais rien fait d'autre qu'arriver
youtube.com/watch?v=vBHfoG…
Replying to @xah_lee
"one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship" — Vonnegut.
3 April (2026)
I associate love with red
The color of my heart when she's dead
Red in my mind when the jealousy flies
Red in my eyes from emotional ties
Manipulation, the danger signs
youtube.com/watch?v=YmPVq8…
The color of my heart when she's dead
Red in my mind when the jealousy flies
Red in my eyes from emotional ties
Manipulation, the danger signs
youtube.com/watch?v=YmPVq8…
Unlike you, I find no satisfaction in the public exposure of my person.
Unlike you, I never made love on a bridge
Among an anonymous collection of strangers
Why shout to them about my thoughts?
With my slightly parted lips, red with lipstick
Caressing the emptiness between lovers
Legs apart, one foot forward, one sock gone
Beyond casual appreciation
Among an anonymous collection of strangers
Why shout to them about my thoughts?
With my slightly parted lips, red with lipstick
Caressing the emptiness between lovers
Legs apart, one foot forward, one sock gone
Beyond casual appreciation
His mouth on the mouthpiece
His eyes in your eyes
Your shirt unbuttoned enough to show collarbone
Red in my mind when the jealousy flies
His eyes in your eyes
Your shirt unbuttoned enough to show collarbone
Red in my mind when the jealousy flies
2 April (2026)
Annoying and embarrassing. Certified true human animal.
1 April (2026)