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Politica ?

Probabil nici nu are rost sa scriu despre acest subiect. Sa scrii despre politica si sa iti dai cu parerea este probabil cel mai raspandit in toate mediile de asa-zisa “informare”. Si cum totusi in momentul asta nu am ceva mai bun de facut…hai sa o fac si pe asta.

In 30 noiembrie romanii au fost la vot. Unii din ei ! Eu personal nu m-am obosit ! Consider ca efortul depus precum si timpul unui astfel de gest este prea mare pentru valoarea reala pe care o are votul introdus de mine in urna. Si…peste 2 saptamani, aveam sa imi dau singur dreptate. Unii acuma sar si striga: nu votezi nu existi ! Ha…ha…ha ! Da ce ? Voi aveti impresia ca va descurcati mai bine la capitolul acesta ? Credeti ca daca v-ati obosit sa votati sunteti mai importanti ? Ati cladit viitorul tarii ? Ma refeream la cei care totusi au fost la vot. Sunt convins ca cei mai multi solidarizeaza cu mine.

Bun. Nu am mers la vot. Ma repugna orice inseamna politica.

S-o luam pe concret. Au participat cateva partide la uninominalele din 30 noiembrie din care s-au evidentiat 4 partide, restul netrecand pragul electoral de 5% : Alianta PSD+PC = 33.99%, PD-L = 33.79%, PNL =18.49% si UDMR = 6.54 %.

Remarcam o maturitate totusi in randul electoratului roman de la Revolutia din 1989 incoace mai ales. Mai recent au ramas 4 partide din 6 existente la scrutinul precedent(2004). Au disparut practic PRM si PNG care nu aveau oricum ce cauta intr-un stat modern democratic.

Ceea ce urmeaza insa este ceva interesant. Ca sa faca majoritate parlamentara si sa formeze si guvern trebuie sa treaca de pragul de 50 %. Si cum sa faci majoritate parlamentara cu 33 % de fiecare partid, PNL cu ceva mai putin, decat sa se alieze doua dintre ele ?

PSD+PC se stie clar ca e partid de centru stanga, iar PD-L si PNL sunt de centru dreapta. Logic ar fi fost sa faca ultimele 2 coalitie si sa fie PSD+PC in opozitie…dar…se intampla ceea ce nu poti nici sa concepi : se aliaza 2 partide cu concepte si viziuni diferite, repsectiv PD-L care e de dreapta cu PSD+PC care e de stanga.

Adica cum mai frate ? Eu astazi is de dreapta si maine is de stanga ? Sau cum e cealalta eu is de stanga si merg pe dreapta ? Numai asa peste noapte ? Este una sa ocolesti o masina in depasire si sa mergi pe banda din stanga, si apoi sa revii pe banda dreapta, dar aici e vorba de concepte si convingeri politice nu de filozofia traversarii drumului sau a depasirii unei alte masini.

Stai si te gandesti cate pot sa se faca in lumea asta, in tara asta numai ca sa ramai acolo sus. Sa fii tu la conducere sa fii tu in lumina reflectoarelor si sa tii toate sforile.

Nu mai discutam de manevrele politice care se fac ca sa ajungi acolo sus, cum sa investesti premieri (Stolojan) si apoi sa pui pe altii, masinarii si aranjamente chibzuite cu luni sau ani de zile inainte.

Principii, valori, constiinta nu exista acolo sus ! … din pacate

The Modern Physics is based on discoveries made on the smallest scale. Particle accelerators are large machines which accelerate particles to huge energies. But they are not dangerous as it is believed because 1GeV represents just a thousandth part of the energy used by a mosquito on the fly. The energy is very concentrated to the particle scale which is 10^-15 meters or even less.

C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research, Centre Européene de Recherche Nucleaire on français) is one of the most advanced research facilities from the world which is investigating this small world. Scientists are hoping to recreate the conditions of Big Bang and study particles to understand our world.

Particles are accelerated to high energies and then are collided in an magnetic field, or what it is called a detector. High speed of about 99,999 % from the speed of light can be reached at this level.

The LHC – Large Hadron Collider is the ultimate synchrotron accelerator which permits accelerate particles (protons in our case) to an energy of 7 TeV. It has 27 km in circumference, circular shape and is buried 100 meters beneath the surface (91 meters in some areas).

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) has 46 meters long and 25 meters in diameter, and has a weight about 7,000 tonnes.

I visited ATLAS in June 2006, and I made some photos that I present you here (some of them). We descended 100 m beneath to see one of the most advanced detectors from the world. I was very impressed by the dimensions of the structure and the amount of effort and technology invested in this huge detectors.

The adventure of ATLAS will begin on Wednesday and will search for the famous Higgs Boson, which is one of the biggest particles and the missing part from the Standard Model from physics.

I am inpatient to see the results of the experiments from CERN, particle physics is one of my passions and I consider that if we can technologically advance is because the new discoveries made in the domain of quantum mechanics and particle physics.

Higgs Boson is of course one of the mysteries of modern physics. I personally believe that it will not show up. In theory of Standard Model Higgs Boson represent the origin of mass, in other words, the mass of particles is due to Higgs Boson. But the energy of Higgs Boson is so big (it is considered to be in the order of TeV) that it is needed a very powerful accelerator to be found. This is why LHC was constructed and his principal goal is to find this elusive particle. But if the Higgs Boson is out of the range, it can be also missed.

Detectors serve as what the name is saying, as detectors. After particles are accelerated through the magnetic tunnel where they get the energy and the velocity, they are oriented in a detector, and crashed. In a particle experiment, if you smash for example protons with anti-protons will result a pleiade of particles and their weight and energy depend by the power and energy received from the accelerator. Accelerator is a very powerful microscope which operates beyond the limits of well known electronic microscopes.