by Antonino Zichichi (Academy of Sciences & University of Bologna, Italy)

At the 6th International Zermatt Symposium, Prof Antonino Zichichi of the World Federation of Scientists presented a lecture to a diverse audience of scientists, managers and engineers, among others, all of whom were interested to learn about the creative process which distinguishes mankind from other forms of life. This book presents Prof Zichichi's experience in the creative sphere of our existence.

• The Meaning of Creativity:
  • Language, Logic and Science
  • Creativity in Language, Logic and Science: Pure and Applied
  • New Avenues of Thought
  • Technological Inventions for Physics Experiments: Three Examples
• New Ideas in Physics:
  • Strangeness to Start With
  • A Lepton Identical to the Electron
  • The Origin of the Third Family: The Heavy Lepton and Its Neutrino
  • The “Time-Like” Structure of the Proton
  • Nuclear Antimatter
  • The Discovery that the Proton Cannot Be Broken Despite Being Composed of Quarks and Gluons
  • Universality Features in Multiparticle Systems of Subnuclear Phenomena
  • The Unification of All the Fundamental Forces of Nature
• New Projects for Large Physics Facilities:
  • LEP
  • From (10%) ELN to LHC
  • Gran Sasso
  • HERA
  • LAA
  • ELN
• International Collaboration for a New Scientific Culture (EMCSC, Erice–WFS):
  • Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture (EMCSC) — Erice
  • World Federation of Scientists (WFS) — Erice, Geneva, New York, Moscow, Beijing
• International Collaboration to Implement Projects in Order to Overcome, First East-West, then North–South Confrontations (the Planetary Emergencies and the World Laboratory)