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s at the cern announced a few hours ago that they have found evidence that the higgs boson aka the god particle actually exists they have stopped short of claiming discovery but in a press conference they said they may have finally glimpsed the elusive elemental particle critical to our understanding of how the universe works here is a video by the telegraph in which cern director general rolf dieter heuer and cern physicists fabiola gianotti and guido tornelli explain what they have found but what does the expression higgs boson named after physicist peter higgs exactly mean and what does this announcement mean for technology to the first question the answer is according to scientific american s kelly oakes the higgs boson is the smallest part of the higgs field which physicists believe gives all matter the property of mass translated and oversimplified that means that nothing would have weight without the higgs field for academics finding the particle would complete a puzzle about the universe that s been bugging them for decades to the second question the answer is honestly very little said university of maryland physics department chairman drew baden it is merely a look see as to where the experiments are in looking for new particles not seen since the first trillionth of a second after the big bang he said but baden said that the technology that cern developed for its research has spun off other valuable advances much of the progress in accelerators comes out of this kind of basic research he said in an e mail pointing to technology used in food radiation and cancer therapy people are now working on laser powered accelerators he said and future applications of that work could create sci fi like particle beams however and to be fair with reference to the expression god particle there are also those who ask what has god got to do with it posted by s r piccoli a 11 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette science don t shoot santa st nicholas early american st nick american santa from santa claus comes to america by caroline singer cyrus baldridge alfred knopf 1942 copyright 2002 2011 st nicholas center it s that time of year seasonal illnesses abound this is the time of year when most of us celebrate god love family sharing and giving it s also the time of year when atheists and bigots celebrate intolerance and hate to do that there have to be a lot of lies the one that is gaining momentum is santa claus read the rest at the metaphysical peregrine posted by s r piccoli a 2 55 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history religion december 12 2011 learning about the u s constitution in order to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america says james d best conference speaker and long time researcher and scholar on the federalist papers james madison s notes on the constitutional convention of 1787 and other original source materials we need to understand it luckily there are some great learning tools available to every american and non american well here they are hopefully these sources will help those who want to learn more about the framing ratification and meaning of the constitution james d best is also the author of tempest at dawn a dramatization of the 1787 constitutional convention and of several other books including the shopkeeper leadville murder at thumb butte the shut mouth society and the digital organization posted by s r piccoli a 10 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history us politics december 9 2011 st augustine in adam s sin an evil will preceded the evil act our first parents fell into open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it and what is the origin of our evil will but pride for pride is the beginning of sin sirach 10 13 and what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation and this is undue exaltation when the soul abandons him to whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself this happens when it becomes its own satisfaction and it does so when it falls away from that unchangeable good which ought to satisfy it more than itself this falling away is spontaneous for if the will had remained steadfast in the love of that higher and changeless good by which it was illumined to intelligence and kindled into love it would not have turned away to find satisfaction in itself and so become frigid and benighted the woman would not have believed the serpent spoke the truth nor would the man have preferred the request of his wife to the command of god nor have supposed that it was a venial trangression to cleave to the partner of his life even in a partnership of sin the wicked deed then that is to say the trangression of eating the forbidden fruit was committed by persons who were already wicked that evil fruit matthew 7 18 could be brought forth only by a corrupt tree but that the tree was evil was not the result of nature for certainly it could become so only by the vice of the will and vice is contrary to nature now nature could not have been depraved by vice had it not been made out of nothing consequently that it is a nature this is because it is made by god but that it falls away from him this is because it is made out of nothing but man did not so fall away as to become absolutely nothing but being turned towards himself his being became more contracted than it was when he clave to him who supremely is accordingly to exist in himself that is to be his own satisfaction after abandoning god is not quite to become a nonentity but to approximate to that and therefore the holy scriptures designate the proud by another name self pleasers for it is good to have the heart lifted up yet not to one s self for this is proud but to the lord for this is obedient and can be the act only of the humble there is therefore something in humility which strangely enough exalts the heart and something in pride which debases it this seems indeed to be contradictory that loftiness should debase and lowliness exalt but pious humility enables us to submit to what is above us and nothing is more exalted above us than god and therefore humility by making us subject to god exalts us but pride being a defect of nature by the very act of refusing subjection and revolting from him who is supreme falls to a low condition and then comes to pass what is written you cast them down when they lifted up themselves for he does not say when they had been lifted up as if first they were exalted and then afterwards cast down but when they lifted up themselves even then they were cast down that is to say the very lifting up was already a fall and therefore it is that humility is specially recommended to the city of god as it sojourns in this world and is specially exhibited in the city of god and in the person of christ its king while the contrary vice of pride according to the testimony of the sacred writings specially rules his adversary the devil and certainly this is the great difference which distinguishes the two cities of which we speak the one being the society of the godly men the other of the ungodly each associated with the angels that adhere to their party and the one guided and fashioned by love of self the other by love of god the devil then would not have ensnared man in the open and manifest sin of doing what god had forbidden had man not already begun to live for himself it was this that made him listen with pleasure to the words you shall be as gods genesis 3 5 which they would much more readily have accomplished by obediently adhering to their supreme and true end than by proudly living to themselves for created gods are gods not by virtue of what is in themselves but by a participation of the true god by craving to be more man becomes less and by aspiring to be self sufficing he fell away from him who truly suffices him accordingly this wicked desire which prompts man to please himself as if he were himself light and which thus turns him away from that light by which had he followed it he would himself have become light this wicked desire i say already secretly existed in him and the open sin was but its consequence for that is true which is written pride goes before destruction and before honor is humility proverbs 18 12 that is to say secret ruin precedes open ruin while the former is not counted ruin for who counts exaltation ruin though no sooner is the highest forsaken than a fall is begun but who does not recognize it as ruin when there occurs an evident and indubitable transgression of the commandment and consequently god s prohibition had reference to such an act as when committed could not be defended on any pretense of doing what was righteous and i make bold to say that it is useful for the proud to fall into an open and indisputable transgression and so displease themselves as already by pleasing themselves they had fallen for peter was in a healthier condition when he wept and was dissatisfied with himself than when he boldly presumed and satisfied himself and this is averred by the sacred psalmist when he says fill their faces with shame that they may seek your name o lord that is that they who have pleased themselves in seeking their own glory may be pleased and satisfied with you in seeking your glory augustine of hippo the city of god book xiv chapter 13 posted by s r piccoli a 11 30 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette philosophy quote of the day religion december 6 2011 monti s save italy decree stay tuned it s just the beginning mario monti has called it the save italy decree and the markets liked it the spread over safe haven german debt securities fell below 400 basis points for the first time in more than a month it s a 30 billion package 12 13 billion in cuts to public sector spending and 17 18 billion in new taxes which includes a two percentage point hike in the value added tax rate iva to 23 the reinstatement of a property tax repealed in 2008 a 1 5 tax on income repatriated under the so called tax shield amnesty program tax incentives for businesses that hire women and young people and an increase in the retirement age to 62 for women and 66 for men from 60 and 65 respectively but the nastiest surprise la carognata roughly translated in english as a really lousy thing to do as italian economic journalist and commentator oscar giannino called it was that only the minimum pensions up to about 950 a month will be protected from inflation in 2012 and 2013 that s also why by the way at a press conference the welfare minister elsa fornero was overcome by emotion as she announced the decision elsa fornero s crying and well i actually think her weeping was genuine et pour cause if we think of the effect that could have on some of the most vulnerable members of italian society and to think that as some commentators observed it could have been enough to raise the tax on income repatriated from 1 5 to 2 to obtain the same effect yet the markets agreed with super mario and that s no small thing furthermore to see the glass half full besides the overdue increase in the retirement age the save italy decree did not include a one off wealth tax nor did it raise the top rate of income tax irpef overall however there are two main criticisms to monti s decree the first is about the package s heavy reliance on tax increases mr monti s measures are long on tax hikes and short on serious reform and they merely reflect a familiar brussels mindset that values short term tax revenue over long term prosperity as the wsj puts it the second is that despite the prime minister s promises of fairness too much is being loaded on to the poor admittedly both criticisms are well founded but at the same time they are possibly too severe and too hurried in fact as to the first criticism mario monti replied in a press conference with the foreign media that he understood concerns that the austerity package may worsen the recession but then again he added we need to think about what italy would be without this package our package is very different from others this year without this package we believe italy will collapse italy will become like greece a country for which we have a lot of sympathy but which we do not want to become well i think he is quite right this is just an emergency decree the first step in a long process as he himself has repeatedly stressed and perhaps the best of monti s method is yet to come however one thing is certain according to reuters mario monti s new approach and special relationship with the foreign press is the biggest news if any reminder was needed that the fate of italy lies outside the country it was prime minister mario monti s decision to hold a highly unusual separate news conference for foreign reporters on monday to explain his economic programme monti the respected head of a technocrat save italy government impressed investors with a 30 billion euro package of painful and rigorous austerity measures unveiled on sunday italian bond yields which had flirted last week with eye popping rates above 7 percent dropped back almost a full percentage point on monday but it was difficult to separate the impact of monti s measures from a broader mood of optimism that euro zone leaders may finally have summoned enough resolve to provide a concerted plan to restore investor confidence in the euro at a summit at the end of this week all along much of italy s fate has remained outside the control of monti despite the sighs of relief that met his appointment last month after mounting exasperation over the antics of his billionaire predecessor silvio berlusconi so monti s decision to hold a long and detailed news conference on monday for the foreign press before he presents his measures to parliament was astute he knows they play a vital role in the crucial foreign perception of whether italy can fight the two headed dragon of huge debt and a decade of almost stationary growth in a clear drive to win over the foreign reporters monti said he had brought forward his cabinet meeting by a day specifically so he could talk to the foreign media on monday before going before parliament he also emphasised that he was speaking to them before his scheduled appearance on tuesday night on one of italy s most watched television programmes to explain his austerity package to the nation in monday s news conference monti said his government intended to set up special structures for dealing with foreign journalists who have been deeply frustrated for decades by the reluctance of italian officials to give out information official spokesmen are reluctant to be quoted in anything but the vaguest terms even when the inquiry is mundane 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