Thursday, October 1, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's fair to rainy.
According to the definition by the Japan Metrological Agency, the Typhoon is a "tropical" depression grown or existing "in the North Pacific", the maximum speed of the wind under the influence of which is faster than 17m/sec. Because of this definition, whether or not the depression that gains enough strength in the Japan Sea should be categorized as a typhoon is uncertain. As far as I know, the Japan Metrological Agency doesn't call such a strong enough depression grown in the Japan Sea Typhoon traditionally. It seems to me that categorizing it as a Typhoon is more relevant to the times when the climate has become severe and such strong depressions in the Japan Sea have affected the lives of Japanese people more frequently than before. It's no exaggeration to say that the hesitations in some proper changes of the laws and the customs result from the same constitution rooted in the mind of the Japanese, such as devotion to negative attitudes, flattery to the authorities, and so on. The troubles attendant upon amending the Constitution of Japan should be more awkward.
California Institute of Technology is ranked first in the THE world university ranking in 2015. The private universities of both the United States and the United Kingdom occupy the top ranks as usual. For some reason or other, most of the distinguished national universities in Japan that appear regularly in its top 200 slumped noticeably this year.
I don't exactly remember what he wrote in one of his essays, Prof. Richard P. Feynman who took up teaching at Caltech some decades ago encouraged the readers and his students to challenge the authorities including himself. Probably, this is one of what Japanese researchers have to soak up. Frontier spirit should always be recommended. In other words, sloughing off a negative attitude toward bureaucracy is necessary in the academic field. It may be said that the great achievements of the US private universities are the outcomes of the vitality and competitiveness of American capitalism. A more speculative emphasis on graduate school educations at private universities where the staff may ideally distance themselves from government officials should also be placed in Japan, if affordable. As I wrote recently, it should take a few of the Japanese prestige private universities some decades or a longer time to catch up with these top universities in the THE world university ranking. However, someone who's pessimistic and well-informed about this issue may mumble that it never comes true. Well, whether or not it would come true in the future depends upon the patient efforts mostly by the private enterprises and naturally by the educators in Japan. Probably, it's much more difficult for Japan to achieve this goal than to take the championship cup in the men's world cup soccer.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. The rain was very heavy before dawn. It cleared up in the morning.
The advantages of the people who have grown up in the English-speaking countries are great, as many people in various fields on the international stages feel. This should explain partially the reasons why the universities in non-English-speaking countries have made little progress with the THE world university ranking so far, but doesn't explain why the ranks of the distinguished national universities in Japan declined this year. It isn't easy for me to know what's going on at the graduate school levels of these Japanese universities in recent years.
The successes in both standardization of the English language in the academic and business areas and the international organizations and popularization of English in the pop cultures have opened these doors to excellent staff and have attracted a lot of students, some of the superior out of which may become the staffs hereafter, from abroad to the universities and research institutes in English-speaking countries. This is one of the most decisive factors. It's advantageous that, because approximately all of the publications in which they put together their achievements are described in English, the visibility of these are somewhat ensured from being buried. The people who have grown up in English-speaking countries have an advantage in terms of aptitude over others, too. Native English speakers who intend to be scholars or scientists at the university, research workers at the institute, or businessmen or politicians on the international stages can choose to cease learning the 2nd, the 3rd, and/or other languages in earnest if they don't want to learn. It's really tough work for most people to master speaking a foreign language to a native speaker level and writing it to an executive level if they didn't start making a studious effort at learning it from early childhood. It amounts to this, that native English speakers can avoid making their brains oriented excessively toward the ability to remember from early childhood. So, the reserve force of their brains can be oriented toward the abilities of logicality, imagination, and originality. Actually, this is a big advantage.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine, clear day.
Differently from other areas, in no small part of the basic research of the advanced medical, regeneration medicine, and biochemical areas, Japan has recently been preceding the Western countries. This new tendency has built up because Westerners are much more thoughtful about the ethical issues attendant on these areas and the regulations necessary for these areas than the Japanese and other Asians are. This may have been a chance for the Japanese universities to remedy the situation. However, I personally feel these areas to be unpleasant though I understand that the results of these areas may be very beneficial for the human race. At least, people have to bless the lives of laboratory animals for their contributions to the human race.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was reached broadly.
Some of the subjects that have often come up at the General Assembly of the United Nations in these latter days drew my attention. The talking points for and against the increase in the permanent members of the Security Council and the power of veto of these members are what interested me. The attempt to increase the permanent member of the Security Council or to invalidate the power of veto of these members separately won't bring up in the public benefits. A reformation of the system of the United Nations that includes these two changes, taking the similarity with an existing system of a nation, would be desirable.
The following is an example of possible reformations. Only one nation is elected from the candidate nations as a chief nation to which the privilege of veto may be granted and whose term should naturally be set. The secretary-general should be elected out of all the UN member countries as is. The number of permanent members of the Security Council should be increased while reflecting their military and economic powers and their past conduct and contributions but these members don't retain the power of veto, similar to the Upper House of the bicameral system. The reasonable number of permanent members in the circumstances nowadays may be ten to twenty. Only the permanent members have the right to stand for a chief nation, and all the UN member countries have the right to vote. On account to avoid causing any possible critical situation like the beginning of a major war structure, the formation of the parties of the nations grounded on the social system, religion, ethnicity, etc. should be refrained from, at least officially, for a while until this structure is stabilized. I think that my proposal above for the minor reformation of the UN system that's characterized by not electing a chief person, that is to say, a president, but electing a chief nation with a prefixed term of the United Nations may work well. This is because this reformation of the UN system doesn't require any major reformations of domestic administration from each member country, and granting only a chief nation the right to exercise the power of veto may help avoid evading a jeopardous majority decision without falling into insufficiency. The vote of no confidence may be held at law to ask whether or not it should dismissed promptly in the case that a chief nation is seriously suspected of exercising the power of veto self-centeredly or unreasonably during its term. If a chief nation abuses the power of veto frequently, it should sink into a delicate position when it aims for the next term after an interval in the future. Although my proposal for the minor reformation of the UN system seems to work well, it won't get easily moving because there are some well-known difficulties. One of the problems is that most or some of the present permanent members who insisted on having the right to veto when the UN was founded about 70 years ago won't easily agree to relinquish it though they can maintain a chance to be elected as a chief nation with the power of veto, and another is that there are no small number of the powers who don't want to see any change though this UN reformation doesn't require any major changes in the domestic administrations in which they are most interested. Making every respectable effort to gain a strong number of backers for this better system from the UN members in order to produce momentum is only the way to carry it forward.
As I wrote long before, the periodic change of the location of the UN headquarters should be quite reasonable for the purpose of advancing its neutralization. Someday, it may begin.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
The river was extensively flooded by the heavy rains that the hurricane Joaquin brought to Colombia, SC in the US for the last few days. The photos showing a flooded area of Colombia reminded me of those showing last month's flooding in a city in Japan.
The most difficult point in the difficulties that remain to be resolved in order to realize the laser cannon that's disposed of in the orbits around the Earth is the establishment of the power system that ceaselessly provides plenty of energy for it. Probably, the solar power system that's directly connected to the laser cannon module isn't sufficient and reliable enough to supply electricity for the practical uses of these advanced interceptors. If the deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion reactor in a car-size that Lockheed Martin Corp. has been developing were to be realizable within the next ten years as they announced last year, it could resolve this problem. Because the tritium isn't so abundant on the Earth, the realization of it won't threaten the other sectors of the energy industry at this early stage. To be honest, I don't know whether or not that news about the compact D-T fusion reactor is credible. If it's really true, their coming achievement should be great. It goes without saying that any ill-uses of the laser cannon in the orbit and the fusion reactor on the ground have to be prevented in advance.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
The other possible method to supply electricity for the laser cannon orbiting around the Earth is the use of wireless energy transfer technology. The electric power may be transmitted from a power plant that generates electricity on the surface of the Earth to an artificial satellite armed with some laser cannons that stay in a stationary orbit far above a power plant. The power may also be transmitted to a laser cannon satellite that's staying at any point in the stationary orbit via some relay satellites. When the wireless network of a lot of the satellites specialized in generating electricity ceaselessly and sufficiently using its large solar panels is established in the orbits in the future, the power may also be obtained from it in a similar way. However, it sounds very costly to construct the entire system made up of some laser cannon satellites, a lot of the power generation satellites, and relay satellites in the orbits around the Earth.
To my knowledge, wireless energy transfer technology has become prevailing, and the verification of its high-power and long-distance applications is currently in progress on the ground.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day. The season's 23rd typhoon went northward in the offing of the Northern part of Japan in the Pacific. This afternoon, it's still maintaining its strength and size in the Sea of Okhotsk, but the Japan Metrological Agency called it a temperate depression.
The development of human abilities should be practiced by taking into consideration the well-balanced orientation of abilities that satisfy the necessities of the times, conform to the existing and soon-coming living conditions, and best fit the individual aptitudes. The ability to remember is always important, but the importance of indiscriminate memorizing has been increasingly declining because a variety of tools that assist people in accessing necessary information are now available everywhere. Keeping people's bodies in tone is always desirable, but the importance of strengthening excessively their physical performances isn't high. The abilities that are necessary to develop the new tools better than the old ones and to make the most of these tools in order to accomplish the matters, whether trivial or important, are distinctive of the human being.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day
DNA manipulation before birth is a medical and bio-chemical treatment that's potentially fraught with serious risk, as well known. Probably, it could be one of the most potentially dangerous technologies that human beings have ever developed. Unlike nuclear technologies, it's rather difficult to assume what sorts of critical situations the inattentive uses of DNA manipulation will lead our world to. Although the achievements in various applications of DNA manipulation have proved to be very beneficial to us, both the orientation and the scope of its research have to be kept under strict watch. On the basis of the successful cases for other species, it's quite reasonable to make an inference that the treatment of DNA manipulation before birth for a person can also improve his or her abilities. However, the dangers attendant on it aren't easily assumable. This is one of the deeds that some ethical and religious groups condemn as evil.
There are a number of medicaments that can boost physical performance and those that can temporarily alter the mental states of living things. In the sporting world, athletes are banned from using performance-enhancement drugs under the rules set by the sports associations on account of the ideas of education and fairness. Although any law may not forbid people outside the sporting world to use some sort of performance-enhancement drugs, strengthening their physical performances excessively by using these drugs isn't necessary. This may be merely a matter of liking. On the other hand, in most countries, the laws strictly forbid people to use some sorts of drugs that affect the activities of their central nervous system because of the strong addictions and side effects that these drugs bring. Of course, some of these drugs may have some effects to stimulate people's mood for a while but have no effect to make people smarter. The proper place where the people whose physical performances are intensively enhanced and whose mental states get uncontrollably excited using these drugs may live without causing any flutter is the inside of the cage.
A well-balanced education, training, and nutrition are what people need. It's highly recommended that people should reinforce their abilities by making the most of the tools appropriate for their purposes. In general, some sorts of breeding activities are all in the day's work more or less, and may not be criticized for unless these activities go too far.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner. It's a cloudy day.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner. It's rainy to cloudy.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
If a nation succeeds in realizing the practical use of the artificial satellite armed with laser cannons that are designed to shoot ICBMs carrying nuclear warheads, etc. down for defensive purposes in the future, some of the world should feel strong anxiety about the possible ill uses of the laser cannons orbiting around the Earth by its military authorities. The law of nations that obliges the UN members to enable some third parties to monitor both the locations and the states of the laser interceptor satellites in orbit, especially in a peace footing, after their ratification will be necessary. One of the auditors that are eligible and competent for inspecting the uses of these satellites may be a UN organization, and another may be an NGO close to journalism. The awkward problem of this issue is that there will be no safeguard if a nation is forwarding this plan by itself in secrecy.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's a fine day.
A chemical plant where a large amount of alcohol was employed for some manufacturing purposes exploded a few times in Tianjin, China last night. Explosion accidents have quite frequently happened in China in these latter days.
Various kinds of frauds taking advantage of the people's ignorance of the my-number and the consumption tax refund have already made news before starting the delivery of the notification to each door. Today, the Japanese government announced that the my-number of each individual has to be treated in confidence, and both the notification and the my-number card on which it's printed have to be kept in a safe place. Probably, the disreputable plan for the consumption tax refund utilizing the my-number card will fall by the wayside.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Seven Eleven is one of the major gas suppliers that don't only retail fuel oils for automobiles primarily but also a variety of convenience goods in most cities of the US, and is headquartered in Dallas, TX. Seven Eleven Japan is famous as the major chain retailer that doesn't retail any gasoline within my knowledge but a larger variety of convenience goods including some luncheons at a small room of their so-called convenience store located nearly everywhere in Japan. The widespread of convenience stores throughout Japan that may be considered to be a success beyond their expectations when they embarked on the retail business in Japan can be ascribed to their business style characterized by running a growing number of around-the-clock neighborhood stores, attracting customers with their favorable original goods, and improving both the quality and the quantity of the services available without cease, which have met the necessities of Japanese mostly in the metropolitan areas since the post-high-growth period and moreover in all the areas with deepening the aging society.
According to the TV news programs, Seven Eleven started opening some Japanese-style convenience stores in the UAE recently. It isn't reported whether or not they retail any gasoline at their stores there. In the first place, the ingredients and the tastes of the luncheons that are prepared and sold there are arranged in the way the Arabs like. How Seven Eleven will adapt its business style by degrees in order to satisfy the necessities of the Arabian people is rather interesting.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
The reactor # 2 of the Sendai nuclear power plants in Kagoshima prefecture restarted operating this morning.
Today, I would like to venture to make an unimportant proposal. Due to the exceeding centralization to the metropolitan area and the soaring price of land in Tokyo, there has been no better alternative choice but to locate a considerable number of public and private organizations, e.g. the airport, amusement parks, hotels, universities, metropolitan facilities whose names include the word of Tokyo in the prefectures adjacent to Tokyo for decades. The unimportant proposal today is that the name of "the Kantô region" where Tokyo is included may be changed into "the Tokyo region" for the sake of convenience, while the Metropolis of Tokyo (Tokyo-to) and its adjacent prefectures are called as these are. The advantage of this negligible proposal is that it requires only the minimum burdens while removing the incoherencies nicely, which tend to go unchecked perfunctorily in most Asian countries. It's much simpler and easier to change the name of the region than either to change the names of the adjacent prefectures into something like ** Tokyo or to merge either some small parts or the whole of some adjacent prefectures with Tokyo. However, someone who dotes on the name of Kantô will feel unpleasant if it disappears from the map. Anyway, this alternation means little to most of the Japanese who live outside the region and even those who live inside.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
As quoted occasionally, the winners wrote the history books. A metaphorical line found in the US TV SF drama called A Wise Saying Above to mind last night. This tendency should have been true since the period when human beings started to record the races for power. The historic records in which the winners wrote with bias should have become official in a territory for a while during their rules, so that the records may have taken root there since then. The world history books were compiled a number of these historic records into together with the piles of these biases. The tendency should become more dominant with tracing history back to the past. Likewise, even in the modern age and these latter days, the more backward in both idealism and journalism the nations are, the more dominant this tendency should become. For instance, the modern history of Japan tells that the intervention of the US government triggered the last of the Tokugawa Shogunate, but it seems that the involvements of the Westerners during the Meiji Restoration weren't adequately documented by the winners of the civil war. Since the dawn of modern times, by the grace of both the efforts of idealistic historians and the rise of journalism, confidence in modern history has been improving significantly. However, it still has been far from being perfectly reliable. Indeed, even now, the news reports that the journalists and politicians inform people usually include some permissible or impermissible extent of the favors and disfavors that various powers push to incorporate. Therefore, in actuality, it's quite wholesome for a nation or a world to maintain the mass media groups of various orientations available for the people who somewhat understand their distinctions. Needless to say, it's unforgivable that the major mass media group in which people may be able to confide spreads a piece of overly haphazard news around on purpose.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a cloudy day.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
China's GDP growth rate during the period from April through June of this year was 7.0% and that during the period from July through September was 6.9%. It looks reasonably stable. In view of the countermeasures on the move against its environmental pollutions including carbon emissions and public nuisances, the potential scales of its growing productions and markets, and the hesitation in forwarding democratization, liberalization, and capitalization, its growth rate in the range of 5 to 10% seems to be proper. The foundation of the world structures may be wobbling when China's economy expands at a two-digit growth rate for a long period of time. Indeed, it's still fresh in our memory that China's rapid growth in addition to South Korea's shook the world following the slump of the US economy on account of the overflows of capital into these Asian countries about seven years ago.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day. Some reason or other motivated me again to write the sentence that my wife and I have never bought any lottery ticket and have never gambled since 2006.
In addition, because of reasons similar to China's case, the framework of the world may lean remarkably when India's GDP growth rate also soars above 10% and continues to be so for a while. As we have seen, the economies of both nations have been developing at a fast pace for the last one to two decades. Actually, the growth rate in the range of 5 to 10% is fast enough for China and India, the populations of which add up to about 40 % of the world population. In terms of carbon emissions, China has already left the US behind, and India is coming up with it gradually. Somebody who is fastidious about climate change may mutter that it's still too fast. Although the intensive advancements in relying upon nuclear power generation and electrification in these two nations should avail to relieve the worsening frequencies of natural disasters worldwide due to climate changes effectively, it doesn't anticipate other economic problems like the case of the late 2000s when the economies of both nations continue to expand beyond a certain level and may lead us to too fast shift in the basic energy uses of the world, which some of the world powers don't let go by for various reasons. Both their growths in economy and their reliance on the nuclear power generation have to be carried out at certain adequate paces.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's a fine day.
If its foundation isn't solidly laid and its balance isn't well, a high rise that towers into the open sky may lean little by little, like Campanile di Pisa. A large building on an insecure foundation may also sink noticeably someday. When an earthquake occurs, the shakings may hasten its leaning and may inflict a number of mechanical defects on its structure, so that its property value may be lowered and its lifetime may be shortened.
The FinFETs that are correctly formed on the substrate according to its device design don't lean after the completion of the front-end processes because the interlayer spaces between the fins on the substrate were filled with a low-k insulating dielectric material or another. Once the gaps are bridged, there is no way that the fins may slant away. Vibrations within a practically possible range of strength from the outside don't cause any reliability problems resulting from its 3D device structure.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
On the other hand, the use of a high-k gate dielectric causes the degradation in the reliability and carrier mobility of the semiconductor devices on a chip, compared to that of the silicon dioxide gate dielectric, which has made a large contribution toward the semiconductor industry since its incunabula. Because of the possibility the VLSI that's composed of the transistors with a high-k gate dielectric fails due to their undesirable performance shifts after use for a certain period of time and the performance degradation may be kept below an acceptable level by inserting a reliable silicon dioxide layer or silicon oxynitride layer only a few ML thick between the unreliable high-k gate dielectric and the channel, this gate dielectric technology together with the dual metal gates processing has been widely introduced into many Si-device applications since the late 2000s. Of course, although the indispensable interlayer is extremely thin, vibrations within an assumable range of strength from the outside don't cause any reliability problems. The injections of the carriers from the channel into the high-k gate dielectric and the interfaces adjacent to it for a long period of operation may cause some failures. Indeed, for compound semiconductor devices, a high-k gate dielectric should quite naturally be used without a hitch.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
About five months ago, an amount of contact spray was sprayed over the keyboard module of my electronic dictionary in order to restore its original state. As a result, however, the replacement of the keyboard module became necessary because its rubber-made part was seriously damaged. The damaged keyboard module hasn't been replaced by the new one yet.
Today, despite the risk, a small amount of the contact spray was applied to the clicking switch and some other parts inside the computer mouse that had been prone to malfunctioning since the freezing season of this year, through a tiny gap without disassembling it. It wasn't disassembled because some parts were firmly glued on its body to begin with. Fortunately, my computer mouse was mended with the contact spray this time. This proved that some electrodes inside it had become rusty during the recent freezing winters, and their rusty contact surfaces may be activated through the application of the contact spray today. It seems that a hand-held device that's equipped with the minimum number of mechanicals, e.g. the keypad, power switch, clicking switch, etc. can be nearly free from this sort of trouble native to the very cold latitudes.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Recently NASA reported that the possibility that a significant earthquake will hit Los Angeles by 2018, which is one of the candidate sites for the 2024 Olympics, is about 99.9%. Because LA lies to one of the representative seismic zones on the Earth, the possibility that some noticeable earthquakes will hit there should be quite high. However, it isn't reported how significantly strong the upcoming earthquake that NASA talks about will be. It seems to me that the possibility that 99.9% of a significant earthquake will hit a major city within the next few years is surprisingly high, in any case.
Today, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 hit the northeast of Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. That magnitude should be considered to be significant.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner. It's a fine day.
The future worldviews that Hollywood movies describe and image tend to be very progressive. This is because Hollywood people engage in business in the world of entertainment. The box office results of the SF movies about the human's interplanetary travel to the surface of Mars in our solar system and the interstellar travel to that of a planet in another solar system were in top shape in these latter days.
A new project by NASA to build a new space station orbiting around the Moon of the Earth was recently announced. Differently from Russia's project, which is probably oriented toward the exploitation of the land and resources developments around a particular region and the attempt at approaching ideal self-sufficiency on the Moon by constructing a station on or slightly below its surface, the US's project is more oriented toward the establishment of a transfer station for the interplanetary travel e.g. the travels to the Mars, the asteroids and so on. Obviously, these projects should have both merits and demerits. It seems that from a shorter-term perspective, the US's project is more conservative than Russia's project, unlike some recent Hollywood movies. The US government has asked the ISS member countries and others to participate in this new project if they see it to be beneficial.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Indeed, some major industries and politicians of the West Coast states including California have been playing an important part in expanding the productions and markets in China for the last decades and partially enabling the Chinese to work on their rather aggressive projects of now and future including its own space station project and Moon exploitation project alone or with some technical supports by the Europeans. Taking into consideration the dispute with the Chinese government over China's unsinkable carriers under construction at a rapid pace in the Spratly Islands which is an important marine zone for their national defense and under which there is an abundance of natural resources such as oil and natural gas is recently getting more serious than ever, there may be no small number of the agents of the US military and NASA who want to warn the California pioneers fascinated by the growing vastness of the Asian markets with threatening words.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Got up at five forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Neutrinos had been considered to be exactly massless or nearly massless. Because neutrino mass had never been measurable, the standard model which was established in the late 1970s describes neutrinos as massless. The physicists who played some leading roles in developing the framework of the standard model estimated that neutrino masses may be in the range of 1E-4 to 1E-1 eV or less (i.e. 1E-10 to 1E-7 times the electron mass or smaller) if neutrinos aren't exactly massless. Even now, neutrino masses aren't directly measurable because of their smallness and neutrality. However, some research groups have ever confirmed the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations that indirectly suggest that three types of neutrinos have slightly different masses. The oscillations of a neutrino type into another have been identified from various neutrino sources such as cosmic rays, colliders, and nuclear reactors.
The book entitled "The Quantum Theory of Fields" by Prof. Steven Weinberg briefly explains one of the possible ways to extend the existing standard model so that neutrino masses can be set in it, which requires the idea of Majorana neutrinos meaning that neutrinos and their antiparticles are identical, the see-saw mechanism, and the introductions of the Higgs doublets, left-handed lepton doublets, and right-handed charged lepton singlets with the mass M comparable to the Grand Unified Theory mass scale in order to make the theory renormalizable. Some publications explain another way through the idea of Majorana neutrinos and the introduction of the Higgs triplets, and another way through the idea of Dirac neutrinos meaning that not only left-handed neutrinos but also right-handed ones are taken into account, and the idea of extra dimensions, for the purpose of making the standard model compatible with small neutrino masses. To be honest, because I haven't yet read any full-textbook about supersymmetry or the superstring theory, I understand the way requiring the Higgs triplets or extra dimensions only roughly. Anyway, because of the difficulty in measuring the very small masses of neutrino directly, it should still be difficult to know which version of the extended standard models best describes the universe.
According to the theory of relativity which is one of the fundamental principles of the standard model, the achievable maximum speed of a massive particle must be asymptotically close to and never be above the speed of light when it's accelerated from a slower speed. So, if neutrinos aren't massless, the speed of neutrinos with a very small mass and a high kinetic energy should be found somewhat below the light speed. This is contradictory to a mysterious discovery that the neutrinos from the supernova 1987A might have reached the Earth earlier than the light from it did by several hours. This is why I still haven't been fully convinced that neutrinos have mass. Some future reproducible experiments will make this experimental or theoretical contradiction clearer.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
Yesterday, the Chinese government announced the rejection of its one-child policy, which has been enforced since the late 1970s. A Chinese married couple may be allowed to have two children when they want. Adopting a policy of two children for a pair should be reasonable and less troublemaking. Under this policy, the population of China will continue to decrease at a healthier pace. The policy of three children for a pair may also work well nowadays.
There has never been any birth control policy in Japan, to my knowledge. Honestly speaking, I want to have my own two or three children.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner. It's a fine day.
