Congratulations to the physicists and scientists who worked long and hard and discovered the boson and above all to Professor Higgs who thought of it in the first place. A nonagenarian now, I hear he is ready to crack the bubbly and so he ought.<\/p>\n
Now what is a boson? Well… I have no idea. But I dare say Frau Merkel knows all about it. She is said to be a physicist, or at any rate to have studied Physics. So presumably she does know something about it. No doubt far more than she knows about Economics.<\/p>\n
I have just come across a really pertinent article by Joseph Stiglitz entitled: “Death-row Euro gets another last minute stay- of execution”<\/a>. He describes vividly the lack of understanding and insistence on repeating failed policies again and again in this Euro crisis.<\/p>\n “The hope is that markets will reward virtue<\/em>.” Stiglitz tells us describing the German obsession with a kind of warped morality in trying to deal with the crisis. Virtue here is austerity and atonement for sin no doubt. However, “…markets are more pragmatic<\/em>.” he tells us, and therefore realise that austerity merely weakens economies rather than strengthens them and hence interest rates rise.<\/p>\n “Germany seems surprised by this. Like Medieval blood letters [Germany’s] leaders refuse to see that the medicine does not work and insist on more of it – until the patient finally dies<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Hail Frau! We who are about to die salute you!<\/p>\n Congratulations to the physicists and scientists who worked long and hard and discovered the boson and above all to Professor Higgs who thought of it in the first place. A nonagenarian now, I hear he is ready to crack the bubbly and so he ought. Now what is a boson? Well… I have no idea. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}