Since I have been complaining so much about rightwing tendencies in Germany in the last days, I won't spare Switzerland now. There is absolutely no reason for thinking that
our passport is something unique in this world. The one and only red booklet, that makes you happy. It is much the same problem as with the "Frauenstimmrecht" 30 years ago: how can all these very normal (already Swiss) people dare to deny to some other very normal (not yet Swiss) people the right to participate in the political life of a country where they have been living for many years? How can they dare to judge wether those people will be
good Swiss citizens? What's that anyway? I am probabely a very bad one, so why don't the come and take my passport away? Of course if everybody had to pass an exam prior to get his passport, Switzerland would be the most horrible country of this world, since that test would be set up by Mr. Blocher and his friends and no sensible person would ever even try to pass.
By the way have a look at this strange
commentary by the
NZZ. There is a good intension behind it, but it's at best childish. Or what am I to think about the "rasende Jugendliche vom Balkan". That sounds to me like a real good party with some nice and very fast gipsy music.
There have been a lot of warnings to the people of Brandenburg and Saxonia that voting for the NPD/DVU was no good for the image of their region and therefore would in the end be damaging for the economy. I don't know how far the impact of such a bad image is, and it is probabely worse for Germany due to history than it is for Switzerland. But take it for granted, all negative reactions I receive when I tell somebody that I am Swiss, has something to do with Mr. Blocher and the fact that his politics is so popular.
If you ever hear something about Switzerland in the news here, it is something of that kind. The fact that you do not notice that down there in the Alps is just due to the fact that Switzerland is so unimportant, that nobody really cares about what's going on there.
I am planning to make a huge party once we get rid of the
SVP. You are all invited. But I will probabely never get the occasion. :-(
Of course the Romandie was doing fine again. My grandmother is from Neuchatel, where foreigners have had the right to vote for many years.
(since 1857 !)
So, I already spent too much time on that posting, and I have to go back to work. Greetings from a "renitente" Swiss citizen living far away in Eastern Europe in a place full of "rasenden" youngsters. Cheers!
Gott sei Dank,
Nazis sind vor meiner Haustür doch
verboten. Die Polizei hat heute früh sogar per Hubschrauber überwacht, dass da wirklich keiner kommt.
Just imagine, you go to see
a doctor and he turns out to be a Nazi.
But how could someone ever vote for such people? Just because he does not like the politics of the government?! It does not help to say that these 9% in Saxonia just wanted to show their disagreement with the ruling parties such as the
SPD and the
CDU, that they didn't really mean it, i.e. that they
didn't vote for the NPD but rather against the others. The mere fact that somebody considers to vote for an organisation with such a background shows that there is something terribly wrong with his thinking.
It is disgusting.
Ich kenn mich ja nicht aus mit Sicherheitspolitik. Aber vielleicht sollte man einfach mal mit der SVP
gemeinsame Sache machen. Eine Milizarmee, die sich durch irgendwelche Tunnel am Simplon wühlt, klassischen Stellungskrieg im Röstigraben veranstaltet und in Fahrradkolonnen durchs Land bimmelt, ist ja irgendwie auch sympathisch. Der Unterschied zwischen einer völlig nutzlosen Armee mit einzig folkoristischer Bedeutung und gar keiner Armee ist ja nur, das die zweite keinen Lärm macht und billiger ist. Und dass man seine Zeit nicht damit verschwenden muss, aber das betrifft mich ja nicht, ;-]. Also höchste Zeit für die
GSoA mal ihre Allianzen zu überdenken.
For the last weeks my life has been quite boring:
getting up at 7am, travelling to
Adlershof staring at a book in
the
library,
trying hard to concentrate and
coming home at something to 9pm.
Its interesting stuff, I have to study but if you
have to do it and
you know that there will be an exam at the end...
So you have to enjoy the small things of life to keep you going:
I got a lot of postcards over this summer most of them from Switzerland
with some nice mountains on them, well also from Japan and from Armenia,
but still with some nice mountains on them. That's nice
since I love to get postcards especially those with nice mountains on them.
But somehow it really makes me homesick, since I am living at a
place with no mountains at all, not even nasty ones.
Yesterday evening on my way home I met my favourite
Motz
seller. In fact I only see her once in two month or so. She's very thin and
pale has beautiful long dark hair. She
speaks so low that you hardly can hear her and if you buy a magazine
from hear she looks at you as if she was going to break into tears.
I don't
know, I
have to buy something from her everytime I see her because I
am so
happy she's still there.
Hm,
that is nonsense. Since relativistically the invariant mass
m^2 = E^2 - p^2
is a lorentz scalar, so the energy E itself isn't invariant. Or take it this way:
E is a
component of a four vector.
So both operators
HD and
h depend on the reference frame. So the only invariant thing about Dirac theory is the Dirac equation?
The Dirac-Hamiltonian
HD = c * \alphai pi -m c^2 \beta
has two eigenvalues +E and -E. +E for the particle solution and -E for the
antiparticle solution. Both of them are twofold degenerate to allow for the
two spin states. The helicity operator
h = \sigma p
commutes with HD and
removes the spin degeneracy. So HD and h are
together a complete set of observables that define a "pure" quantum state.
Dirac theory is a relativistic covariant formulation of quantum mechanics,
the energy |E| itself is a scalar and therefore relativistically invariant,
but helicity isn't a good quantum number for particles with mass. Wether
the spin of a particle is parallel or antiparallel to its momentum depends on
the reference frame. (If you pass by the particle by running faster than it, it
changes its helicity. Unless the particle has zero mass it is slower than light and can be bypassed.)
Isn't that somehow odd? (I mean that in a covariant theory a non-covariant
operator takes such a prominent place.) Or is this nonsense?
