Einstein Telescope Italia now speaks Sardinian: the new language version of its website is online.

Sardinian is now among the main languages of the Einstein Telescope Italia website, alongside Italian, English, French, Spanish, and German. The content was translated by the Regional Language Desk of the Sardinian Language and Culture Service of the Sardinia Region, with the scientific support of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). The project is the result of an agreement between the Region and the INFN, signed in recent months and followed by a resolution approved by the Regional Council.

The website, dedicated to promoting the candidacy of the Sos Enattos area in Lula , Nuoro, to host the future gravitational wave observatory, is now available in six languages. The web pages, now available in Sardinian, explore both scientific topics, such as the science of gravitational waves and the discovery scenarios that the Einstein Telescope experiment could open up, as well as aspects more closely related to the Italian candidacy, such as the characteristics and ongoing activities at the Sos Enattos candidate site and the many impacts (technological, environmental, and socioeconomic) that the arrival of the infrastructure would have on Sardinia.

"The decision to translate the contents of the Einstein Telescope project into Sardinian achieves a dual goal," says Regional President Alessandra Todde . "On the one hand, it promotes, enhances, and disseminates our language, even beyond regional and national borders. At the same time, it demonstrates how the candidacy to host the infrastructure in Sardinia extends beyond the purely scientific sphere, encompassing the economic, social, and (as in this case) cultural aspects of our land."

"We thank the Sardinia Region for accepting our proposal to translate and publish the contents of the Einstein Telescope website in Sardinian," adds Alessandro Cardini, director of the INFN Cagliari section . "This initiative, in addition to being an important new step in our efforts to promote the candidacy to host ET in Sardinia, represents an interesting linguistic experiment, demonstrating how it is possible to express more or less complex scientific concepts in Sardinian as well."

(Unioneonline)