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Κυριακή 23 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

ΑΡΠΑΞΑΝ ΙΕΡΕΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΓΕΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΔΟΠΑΤΗΣΑΝ ΠΙΣΤΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟ. ΜΑΛΙ ΜΕ ΜΑΛΙ ΟΙ "ΘΕΟΥΣΕΣ" ΚΑΙ Τ'ΑΝΤΡΑΚΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ

ΑΡΠΑΞΑΝ ΙΕΡΕΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΓΕΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΔΟΠΑΤΗΣΑΝ ΠΙΣΤΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟ. ΜΑΛΙ ΜΕ ΜΑΛΙ ΟΙ "ΘΕΟΥΣΕΣ" ΚΑΙ Τ'ΑΝΤΡΑΚΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ

ΑΡΠΑΞΑΝ ΙΕΡΕΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΓΕΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΔΟΠΑΤΗΣΑΝ ΠΙΣΤΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟ. ΜΑΛΙ ΜΕ ΜΑΛΙ ΟΙ "ΘΕΟΥΣΕΣ" ΚΑΙ Τ'ΑΝΤΡΑΚΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ

Συντάχθηκε απο τον/την Makelaris Στις 22 Δεκεμβρίου 2012 - 12:50.

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Από τα γένια άρπαξε πλήθος κόσμου ιερέα και τον έριξε στο έδαφος, στη Ναύπακτο, έξω από το Επισκοπείο της πόλης. Αφορμή στάθηκε η κλήση για απολογία του Αρχιμανδρίτη Ιγνάτιου Σταυρόπουλου από τον Μητροπολίτη Ναυπάκτου, Ιερόθεο, καθώς έχει δοθεί η εντολή στον Αρχιμανδρίτη να μην Ιερουργεί στο Μοναστήρι της Μεταμορφώσεως.

Ως όφειλε παρουσιάστηκε στο Επισκοπείο μαζί με άλλους Μοναχούς για να απολογηθεί όμως μόλις πληροφορήθηκαν οι κάτοικοι της Ναυπάκτου το λόγο που παρουσιάστηκαν οι Μοναχοί στη Μητρόπολη, ξεσηκώθηκαν και τουλάχιστον 150 άτομα περικύκλωσαν το Επισκοπείο Ναυπάκτου, φωνάζοντας να φύγει ο Μητροπολίτης Ναυπάκτου Ιερόθεος από τη Ναύπακτο ως ανεπιθύμητος και ως πολέμιος της Μονής Μεταμορφώσεως.

Τα αίματα άναψαν όταν εμφανίστηκε ο πατήρ Θεμιστοκλής και ο πατήρ Καλλίνικος, δεξί χέρι του Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου. Το πλήθος άρπαξε από τα γένια τον π. Θεμιστοκλή πετώντας τον στο έδαφος, ο Ιερομόναχος Καλλίνικος πρόλαβε και τράπηκε σε φυγή.

Την ίδια ώρα ειδοποιήθηκαν Αστυνομικές δυνάμεις από το Αστυνομικό τμήμα Ναυπάκτου και με ενισχύσεις από την αστυνομία Μεσολογγίου για να προστατέψουν τον Μητροπολίτη.

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Κομματάρχες και πολιτική διαφήμιση

The island of Spinalonga (official name: Kalidon) is located at the eastern section of Crete, near the town of Elounda. The name of the island, Spinalonga, is Venetian, meaning "long thorn", and has roots in the period of Venetian occupation. This location is also the setting for Victoria Hislop's bestselling novel The Island and Werner Herzog's experimental short film Last Words. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Συνταγή για καλοφουσκωμένα κόμματα και υπερχρεωμένα κράτη.

Ο Άη Βασίλης για ενήλικες, λέγεται κομματάρχης. Και είναι αυτοί που όλοι ονομάζουν παρακρατκούς , τους έχουν συνεργάτες για τις ανήθικες και αντικοινωνικές συναλλαγές, αλλά τους χαρακτηρίζουν άγνωστους και εχθρούς του κράτους, έχοντας υπ ' όψιν, τους κομματάρχες του αντίπαλου κόμματος και όχι τους συνεργούς στα δικά τους εγκλήματα.

Οι ιδιώτες είναι η πηγή εξουσίας των κομμάτων και όχι οι πολίτες. Και οι κομματάρχες είναι τα καρκινώματα της νεοελληνικής κοινωνίας

Αρχιμανδρίτης της Αρχιεποσκοπής Αθηνών τραβάει διακονία online

Greek Orthodox Priest (1878) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Λέτε να ήταν άγνωστα τα έργα του στους συνεργάτες του πριν γίνουν δημόσια; Η υποκρισία δεν ανήκει μόνο σε εκείνον αλλά και σε όλους όσους τον καλύπτουν.

Μακελειό: Περιμένουμε την τιμωρία του

Εσπρέσσο - Ο πολιτικός μεσάζοντας και ανεχόμενος Ιεράρχης: Ο ισχυρός ζεν πρεμιέ της Αρχιεπισκοπής

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Κυριακή 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

A Crash Course In Particle Physics

English: Professor Brian Cox at the Science Foo Camp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Professor Brian Cox of the University of Manchester presents an educational walk, through the fundamentals of Particle Physics.

Disclaimer: The copyright owner provides this content for educational purposes.

Higgs Boson Discovery announcement by Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs (* 1929) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

4th of July 2012, this is the day the Higgs Boson was discovered by the human race.
After 45 years of searching, Peter Higgs can now announce to the world how he has seen the culmination of his life's work finally blossom into a tangible result, a result which has brought an all too human emotion to this triumph.

Francois Englert, Carl Hagen and Gerald Guralnik are also present in this announcement, who created the theory along with Robert Brout. For this reason it will most likely be renamed the HEB-Boson.

The Higgs field and resulting Higgs boson are a vital part of the Electroweak Interaction and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In the absence of the Higgs field, when a Local Gauge is applied to the Lagrangian of the Electroweak Interaction we are left with force-carrying bosons that are massive, the W and Z Bosons with masses of ~80GeV and ~90GeV respectively. This would be okay for the Photon as it has no mass.
The Higgs mechanism was the most favoured explanation for solving this problem.

In brief, the Higgs field is introduced to 'break' the symmetry of the Electroweak theory, which allows particles to have mass.

This Higgs mechanism is important as it not only explains how the heavy bosons become massive but also provides an explanation as to how the fermions come to have mass.

The Mechanism of the interaction is simple to understand. Where the Electroweak Interaction couples to electric and weak (or flavour) charges and the Strong Interaction couples to colour charge, the Higgs interaction couples to mass. The process by which the Higgs gives fermions mass is via the Yukawa potential. This potential gives the coupling strength of the Higgs to all types of fermions, the stronger the coupling, the more mass the particle will have. Hence the Higgs Boson couples more strongly to more massive particles, hence the energies of the LHC were necessary to create the mo

Interactions (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

st massive particles for the Higgs to couple with.

Why we needed this boson is a bit more complicated, which corresponds to Peter Higgs, Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone's theoretical research.

In the Electroweak interaction you can examine the Lagrangian in a similar way to those for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and also Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Starting with the Dirac Lagrangian, when a Local Gauge is applied the resulting Lagrangrian is not invariant under the transformation. The local gauge transformation applied to the Langrangian is dependent on the symmetry, for example for the weak force we use SU(2) symmetry as we want physics invariant under swapping up-like and down-like fermions.

When a Local Gauge Symmetry is applied to the Electroweak Lagrangian it does not remain invariant under the gauge transformation. This can be rectified by the introduction of appropriate fields, which have associated mass-less bosons W1, W2, W3 and B. The SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the electroweak theory is non-abelian which means that the bosons interact with each other as well as with fermions.

The Electroweak theory needs to end up with three massive bosons (2 charged and 1 neutral) and also a mass-less boson. The Goldstone Theorem provides a mechanism by which the 4 mass-less bosons from the original symmetry can become the four Electroweak bosons described above. The Goldstone theorem states "that for any continuous symmetry broken, there exists a mass-less particle, the Goldstone boson." The result is that for each broken generator, there is a resulting mass-less scalar boson.

A complex Feynman diagram involving the Higgs boson. A schematic, called a Feynman diagram, of two virtual gluons from colliding LHC protons interacting to produce a hypothetical Higgs boson, a top quark, and an antitop quark. These in turn decay into a specific combination of quarks and leptons that is very difficult to fake in other processes. Collecting sufficient evidence of signals like this one may eventually allow ATLAS collaboration members to discover the Higgs boson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Higgs mechanism is the process applied to Electroweak theory. A complex doublet Higgs field can be included in the theory and this Higgs field breaks the symmetry of the problem while retaining local gauge invariance. This Higgs field (two complex scalar fields which transform under the SU(2) symmetry) will, via the Goldstone Theorem, result in a scalar Higgs boson and 3 Goldstone bosons which will provide mass. The three Goldstone bosons interact with the original fields to provide mass for the W+, W- and Z bosons while leaving the fourth boson mass-less. This can be seen mathematically by looking at the changed form of the Electroweak Lagrangian due to the introduction of the Higgs fields.

There is a reason to believe that the Higgs Boson discovered is not the garden-variety
Higgs that physicists were expecting. It's relatively low mass may place it in the Supersymmetric regime, and may be humanity's first probe into Supersymmetry. If the Boson was discovered to be a singlet it would also be the first fundamental singlet ever discovered, sparking new interest in finding the last piece of the singlet, vector, tensor boson puzzle: The Graviton, the force carrier for the gravitational force and the key ingredient in the Theory of Everything, "The Promised Land" of Physics that will explain how General Relativity works with Quantum Theory and will explain how The Universe works in completion.

Σάββατο 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Aρχαία Ελληνική Ευχή Γενεθλίων

2005 Skeptics Society Conference: Brain, Mind and Consciousness

Results from an fMRI experiment in which people made a conscious decision about a visual stimulus. The small region of the brain coloured orange shows patterns of activity that correlate with the decision making process. Crick stressed the importance of finding new methods to probe human brain function. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Brain, Mind & Consciousness conference, on what Nobel Laureate Francis Crick called "the greatest unsolved problem in biology," was held over the weekend of May 13--15, 2005 at Caltech.

Research on the brain, mind, and consciousness was given a significant boost by Nobel laureate Dr. Francis Crick in 1994, when he wrote in his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, "that 'you,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."

This is what is called "the hard problem"—explaining how billions of neurons swapping chemicals give rise to such subjective experiences as consciousness, self-awareness, and awareness that others are conscious and self-aware; that is, not only the ability to wonder, but the ability to wonder why we wonder, and even wonder why others wonder why....

Explaining each of the functional parts of the brain is the easy problem, such as the differences between waking and sleep, discrimination of stimuli, or the control of behavior. By contrast, what has come to be known as the hard problem in consciousness studies is experience: what it is like to be in a given mental state? Adding up all of the solved easy problems does not equal a solution to the hard problem. Something else is going on in private subjective experiences—called qualia—and there is no consensus on what it is.

Dualists hold that qualia are separate from physical objects in the world and that mind is more than brain. Materialists contend that qualia are ultimately explicable through the activities of neu- rons and that mind and brain are one. Our speakers, some of the top neuroscientists in the world, will address these and other problems, such as the evolution of the brain, and how and why it got to be so large. Skeptics will get a chance to interact with these world-class scientists on the breaks, during meals, and in a formal discussion period. We will also consider the implications of this new brain research to better understand apparent paranormal phenomena, as well as how and why people believe weird things.

Lectures included: The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach with Dr. Christof Koch, Children as Scientists: How the Brain Learns to Think with Dr. Alison Gopnik, In Search of Memory — True, False, Repressed, Recovered with Dr. Richard McNally, Sleep, Dreams, and the Subconscious with Dr. Terry Sejnowski, Exploring Altered States of Consciousness with Dr. Susan Blackmore, The Search for the Neurological Basis of the Social Emotions with Dr. John Allman, From Whence Trust Comes: Oxytocin and Behavioral Economics with Dr. Paul Zak, Consciousness is Nothing But a Word with Dr. Hank Schlinger, and From Biology to Consciousness to Morality with Dr. Ursula Goodenough.

Παρασκευή 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Άγαλμα Διός και Χριστός (Φειδία Ένθρονος Δίας)

Zeus (Photo credit: crafterm)

Ο Δίας έδωσε την εικόνα του στον Ιησού όπως τον αγιογραφούν οι χριστιανοί σήμερα.

Και κατά μία υποψία τους, νιώθουν ξένοι των ειδώλων και των προσώπων τους, έχοντας τον "αληθινό" θεό, που "γνώρισαν και είδαν" και κατέγραψαν οι πινελιές τους.

Πολύ εν Δια φέρουσα άπ Οψη!

Richard Dawkins Destroys The 10 Commandments

English: Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine and Richard Dawkins at its launch in London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Professor Richard Dawkins ridiculing the 10 Commandments and showing that morals do not come from the Bible.

San Diego, Ca. Friday, April 6th, 2012

Belief in God: Prohibitive or Liberating? Lawrence Krauss & Uthman Badar...

Partical physics & cosmology at the Wellcome Collection, due to be broadcast on the World Service on 9 Dec 09. Brain melting. Also: good hair, Grayling. Well done. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Discussion forum held at the ANU, Canberra on 9 April 2012 entitled "Belief in God: Prohibitive or Liberating? ". Dr. Lawrence Krauss and Uthman Badar discuss the following and related questions.

Is belief in God rational or irrational? What role should religion play in our private and public lives? Is science sufficient to make religion redundant? Is the way forward for humanity in the 21st century a return to God or the completion of secularisation process of modernity?

Speakers:

Dr Lawrence Krauss (U.S)
Dr Krauss is an international renowned theorectical physicist. He is Foundation Professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept., Co-director, Cosmology Initiative and Director, Origins initiative at Arizona State university. He was visiting Australia to speak at the Atheist Convention in Melbourne. Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HPPPIG

Uthman Badar (Australia)
Uthman is a Muslim activist and public speaker based in Sydney. His areas of expertise and theology, logic, jurisprudence, politics, and economics. He is currently at the University of Western Sydney completing a PhD, and has engaged in many debates and discussion forums with advocates of atheist and secular ideology. Connect with Uthman Badar on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/Agq3zk) and/or Twitter (http://bit.ly/HzGtyk).

Format

Introduction
Initial remarks
Uthman Badar - 6:15
Lawrence Krauss - 27:26
Moderated discussion - 47:25
Q&A from audience - 1:43:45
Closing remarks
Uthman Badar - 2:10:00
Lawrence Krauss - 2:15:05