Archive - Oct 7, 2008 - Article

Blinding lights

The heart of rabbit is pounding hard as she cruises along the bushes to get home. With every single step, she knows that any moment she can be trapped. This forest is full of wolves. Hungry, angry, devastated wolves waiting for her tender flesh. Wolves already salivating at the thought of jumping at her and seeing the extreme of fright in her eyes. But despite all this, all this fear and paralyzing ansgt, she has to go on. Simply because life goes on...and she has to live right here in forest. The story is a simple metaphor for police cars cruising the streets of Los Angeles nowadays. I am not sure if it is the state deficit or the global recession that has put the pressure on them. Turning them into non-human predators scanning every single movement>>>

NIAC beats AIPAC

It was David versus Goliath: the classic underdog matchup. In the battle over a Congressional resolution calling for war with Iran, the lines were drawn between the smaller grassroots Iranian-American movement (NIAC) on one side and the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) mega-lobby on the other. No one expected the Iranian Americans and their coalition partners to be able to stand up to the belligerent giant intent on amplifying hostility with Iran. But with the Congressional session expiring this week, our proverbial David in Washington has delivered the knock-out blow to the pro-war forces' Goliath. The Iran war resolution is down for the count. Yes, you read that right - NIAC beat AIPAC >>>

دل هر ذره که بشکافی

‫نوبل فیزیک ۲۰۰۸ مربوط به توضیح وجودی ما در این دنیاست و به ۳ فیزیکدان ژاپونی ویشیرو نامبو، ماکُتو کوبایاشی و توشیهید مازکاوا تعلق گرفته شده است. کارهای این محققین به این سؤال که چرا بعد از بیگ−بانگ موادی باقی مانده که از آن کهکشانات و ... ما بوجود آمدیم؟ این سؤالیست که دانشمندان از خود در ۳۰ سال آخیر میکردند و منشأ این سؤال از اینجا بوجود آمده که در پیداش بیگ−بانگ همزمان عناصر و ضدشان بوجود آمدند که وجود هر دوی این عناصر همدیگر را میبایست خنثی میکرد و در اصل چیزی دیگری بعد از این انفجار نمیبایست باقی میماند. ‫یویشیرو نامبو بعلت کشف مکانیسم شکستگی غریب الوقوع تقارن در فیزیک زیراتمی، ماکُتو کوبایاشی و توشیهید مازکاوا بعلت مبدأ این شکستگی غریب الوقوع که وجود ۳ فامیل کوارتز را در طبیعت ‫به اثبات ‫میرساند به این افتخار دست یافتند>>>

The Model

Sitting at back of the great hall
I see heads bob down and up
like buoys in rough sea
not recognizing her face
in that amorphous makeup.
After a while, the novelty of height
of colors, or black
fades into the crowd >>>