Biografia

Carlo Roselli was born in Milan in 1939. As a teenager he discovered his love for painting and, soon, also for philosophy and science. In 1952 his family moved to Rome. Here, having completed his classical studies, he first attended courses in Law and, later, those in Political Sciences, but with little enthusiasm. In the early 1960s, he abandoned his friends and family and left for Paris, taking with him the illusion of a nearby goal to which Roselli tenaciously aspired: art. It was also in Paris that he met Londoner Susan Beswick, whom he married after several years in England and who would become his lifelong companion. He left Paris and moved to London, where he lived for over a year in the Notting Hill district. With Susan, he took a series of trips around the world and in 1966 settled permanently in Rome. He began to paint more passionately, even though he alternated periods of studying philosophy, mathematics, and physics with painting. In the mid-1980s, his passion for philosophy and science rekindled hurriedly. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, he became interested in unsolved questions in mathematics and physics, devoting much of his time to studying scientific texts and constantly updating himself on research developments. A unique worldview thus took shape in Roselli. He began writing with a torrential impetus. He painted little, and his Roman friends regarded him with suspicion, some of them believing he was losing his way toward madness. The fruit of his research was the essay “Geometrodinamica e Architettura del Vuoto,” Edizioni Kappa, Rome 2000. In the mid-1990s, Roselli met and frequented the late Mario Barra, professor of Mathematics and Foundations of Probability Calculus at the Castelnuovo Institute of La Sapienza University of Rome. He formed a long and very close friendship with Barra who invited him to publish several essays on geometry and mathematical analysis in the national journal “Alice,” Edizioni Pagine, Rome. While at Sapienza University, he developed close relationships with physicists from various disciplines, particularly with Gianni Battimelli and the late Alfonso Sutera. In 2003, Roselli began a friendly correspondence with the late GianCarlo Ghirardi, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Trieste, and, at the same time, with Carlo Rovelli, currently Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Aix-Marseille. To the latter two scientists, Roselli proposed some of his innovative ideas aimed at undermining the standard (Copenhagen) interpretation of quantum mechanics; with them, he discussed some crucial topics in his writings and received valuable suggestions that ultimately led him to publish two original quantum physics experiments in the international journal “Foundations of Physics Springer”: The Dead-Alive Physicist (2021) and The Physicist Inside the Ambiguous Room (2022). Roselli has written numerous papers on philosophy, logic, mathematics, and physics, some of which can be found on Google, Research Gate, Academia Edu., Phil Papers, and on his website in the Science section.