GABRIEL CELAYA AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

Last 18th of March was the centenary of Gabriel Celaya´s birth and since this blog is very involved with the present, here we have some lines by him.

And why so neutral, so sure of himself,

Mr Neutron?

One is going round and round with his electric charges

and he, stable, does not even notice

that one, although tiny, as if were a joke,

could make an ungodly scene,

disintegration.

A jump is enough, quantum or tantum

and it’s over, big fish!

When I hear someone mention Celaya, I always remember Atlético Celaya, a Mexican team where Rafa Paz retired, a bloody great footballer who played the World Cup in Italy in 1990.

SNOW WHITE AND PROPERTIES OF WAVES

Either we open a new section of “cinema with science” or you´ll agree with me that Snow White is a tale and therefore, literature.

Without taking into account that the echo just appears when it´s necessary for the chorus of the song and that the prince jumps over the wall from his horse so easily, let´s consider how many physics laws are broken in this video.

From my humble amateur opinion, it would be very difficult for a human sound wave to reach  enough intensity to disturb the water surface. Besides, it would be a spherical wave which would crash several times into the walls of the well and that´s why it wouldn´t be able to make an isolated impact, as if it were a stone. In addition, the well doesn´t seem to be deep enough and finally, the synchronization between the sound and the impact into the water is kind of weird

THE MORPHINE THIEF (MARIO CUENCA SANDOVAL) AND BIOCHEMISTRY

I read this book attracted by a hyperbolical review by Andrés Ibáñez in the cultural magazine of ABC, newspaper published on Saturdays which goes together with the supplement “Today´s Woman´s Heart”. It´s really good, but from my point of view, it´s not a masterpiece. I´ll keep it in mind: you can´t trust Andrés Ibáñez 100%.

The plot takes place in Korea. There is a new trend among many young Spanish writers to do this, I mean, their books do not take place in Spain.  I neither agree nor disagree, but the writer takes certain risks. You can laugh where he does not intend us to do so. As happened to me in the film “Volver a empezar” by José Luis Garci when Antonio Ferrandis (well-known by his role of “Chanquete”) checked in a hotel as a North American citizen. To be honest, this does not happen in this book. Even though “The morphine thief” is a Spanish book about the Korean War, it does not cause laughter, and I think this is one of the best things of this book.

Because all mystery in man is the result of Chemistry. Don’t you agree? Love. Maternal instinct. Or survival instinct. Everything which seems to be bigger than us, everything we are attracted to and make us feel as Gods, is nothing but the product of our pure and simple carnality.