Change of milestones

On the eve of the New Year, the team of the authors of the Trinity Option together participated in the corresponding holidays. Namely - as far as possible, he answered any of the three, simple in appearance of questions:
1. What was remembered in 2008?
2. What are you waiting for from 2009?
3. Do you have a new year related to some funny story?
And this is what happened as a result.

Our editor -in -chief and astrophysicist Boris Stern are not alien to either earthly or heavenly joys:

1. From what happened to me and others last year, I remembered almost nothing. Rubbering of memory happened - this happens when you grab at once in a few cases. For example, I do not remember at all that I was jammed in public about the intention to publish a new “Trinity option”, so much so that there was no retreating path of retreat. I only vaguely remember: my inner voice told me that I would regret it a lot about it. He was right by 70 percent, but the remaining 30 percent allow me not so to repent of the deed.

Really, in all colors, one point was remembered. It was September 8 or 9-the last day of the non-spoke 30-degree heat. My dog ​​and I swam Oka and for two hours in complete serenity lay on a small sandy island - outside the reach of all means of communication. Everything was exactly as in childhood on the Volga. The only difference was that then the whole life was ahead, and now - the arrival of the cold front a few hours later and at the same time immersion in all this, which he himself made. “This” is for me, and for the dog there were several days of meaningless existence in a city apartment.

And yet, I have never seen a combination of September light and colors with July heat - this will definitely not be forgotten.

2. The most exciting event in 2009 for me will be the opening (in the sense of Release) of the data of the Fermi spacecraft (in girlhood - Glast). I had carelessness publicly and in writing to predict something that he should measure, and terribly interesting whether I sit in a puddle or not.

Astrophysicist Sergey Popov , as expected, did not hurt the root, but looked at the stars:

1. For me, 2008 was largely under the sign of the Trinity Option.

2. The main expectations in 2009 are associated with the advent of new devices.

Next year, three powerful space observatories should be launched at once. This is an infrared telescope Herschel, Planck microwave satellite and a photometric kepier telescope. The first of them should give a lot of new information about the formation of stars and galaxies.

The second is about the cosmic microwave background and the properties of the clusters of the galaxies. The third should begin to open earth -like planets in the zones of habitability around close stars. In addition, you can expect interesting results from the recently launched Fermi gamma satellite.

The psycholinguist Rebekaka Frumkin hopes for stability:

1. The strongest impression of 2008 is the speech of Barack Obama “We Can!”. The only comparable power - the famous speech of John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963 - hardly many people remember that there he estimated the loss of the USSR in the Second World War at least 20 million people.

2, 2009 I hope to live no worse than 2008.

Fantast writer Pavel Amnuel limited himself to just a New Year's story:

Since childhood, I love the opera, and at one time I went to our Baku Opera Theater for all the premieres. For some damn first presentation of the new production of Chio-Chio-San was appointed for the evening of December 31 (this was in the early 70s, but in what particular year I do not remember). In the hall, designed for 2500 seats, 15 people gathered. The performance begins. A cat appears from the wings, which wanders around the stage and interferes with everyone. At the end of the first act, the decoration falls on the singers-thank God, the cardboard, from under which they get out, continuing to sing. In the second act, the light suddenly goes out, and the orchestra plays in complete darkness, we already think - well, everything, we will diverge, but the light flashes, and the performance continues. The finale: on the stage of Chio-Chio-san, with a three-year-old son sings for separation and treason, and then the boy begins to call the boy ... He barely tolerates, poor thing, it is clear that he can’t stand it now and a embarrassment will happen to him right on the stage, and he will be able to get into the toilet earlier than his mother committed suicide. The orchestra speeds up the pace, and Chio-Chio-San is stabbed in a crazy rhythm, from which Puccini turns in a coffin. The boy rushes for the scenes. Curtain…
And before the fight of chimes - half an hour. We no longer have time and celebrate the New Year home - all 15 spectators - in the theater buffet. The conductor comes to us, panting with laughter. It turns out that the poor boy never ran to the toilet ...
Such a story ...

The historian and archaeologist Lev Klein , alas, does not believe in miracles, but hopes:

1. In 2008, the first steps of my grandson, the first lecture of my current student and my first articles in the Trinity version were remembered. In addition, a number of events in the country were remembered, which I do not want to remember about the New Year.

2. What is I waiting for from 2009? I hope for three things in the personal plan: that in the coming year I will be alive (possible) that (weak hope) Health will not deteriorate that (strong hope) at least some of my books passed to the publishers will be published. Thinking about the country, I hope also for three things: that there will be no more amendments to the Constitution

Sociologist Boris Firsov was brief, but eloquent:

The main result of the outgoing year I see in the fact that Russian professional sociology had a friendly virtual environment - the newspaper Troitsky Option and the Polit.ru website. The future historian, I believe, will note the important role of the understanding electronic and paper press for the development of the understanding society and the people of sociology. Thanks to all scientific journalists for the demanding and reverent attitude to the fate of our science.
Happy New Year!

The chemist - the technologist Ilya Mirmov wished that the outgoing ledge year would leave as quickly as possible.

1. The past year for me personally turned out to be difficult, we can say difficult. Truly leap. I do not wish anyone such years. So that he ends as soon as possible and never repeats again. Scientific life flowed evenly - without accomplishments, but also without failures: thank you! There were curious moments, the main of which, of course, is a new, “scientific” TRV. I got into this project exclusively thanks to the remnants of youthful adventurism and the desire (practically duty!) Friendly support the action of the promotion,
Boris Stern. All my experience in communicating with him said that he simply would not, but he would, in modern language, are cool. In expectations, I was not deceived ...

2. So that the New Year is better than leaving. It would be health (including sincere) - we will buy the rest, having previously earned.

Philologist Irina Levontina now knows how many years to Santa Claus:

Three years ago, I went to the Christmas tree with my daughter. The Christmas tree, as usual, took place in interactive mode: the characters periodically turned to young spectators with questions. Santa Claus made riddles, and also aware of whether the children always tell the truth. The wolf was interested in which direction the Snow Maiden went (here, of course, a pure lie should be answered). And at some point, the Snow Maiden asks: “Guys, tell me, how old is to Grandfather Frost?” I thought: I wonder what answer they expect from four -year -old children, if I - with higher education and a degree - were in difficulty. Children, however, were not embarrassed. The most lively girl (this was not my daughter) confidently replied: “Seventy -five!” "Oh, if!" - Snegurochka sighed. And now attention, the correct answer: “What year do we meet? 2006! Here you go!" But true, wonderful: 2006 from the Nativity of Santa Morozov. Interestingly, he was also born in a nursery? Did the Magi came? In general, there are many questions. In fact, it is very typical that the holidays belonging to different cultures merge in the popular mind. A striking example is Shrovetide preceding the great post. The pagan cult of the sun is clearly visible in Shrovetide, it is visible even in the very form of pancake. So the winter holidays: everything was mixed in the head of a modern Russian man - two Christmas, two new years, Christmas time, Christmas star and Kremlin star. The dog - and this year a cow - from the eastern calendar in the cap of Santa Claus, and for the fullness of the picture it would be worth it to give her a burning menora in a paw, in order to take into account Khanuka at the same time. (In the USA, by the way, in the types of political correctness in December, posters are hung with the inscription just Happy Holidies!). Yes, and Santa Claus himself, of course, was pushing with Santa Claus - St. Nicholas. The prototype of Santa Claus, St. Nikolai Mirliki, lived in the 4th century and became famous for various, not very fantastic, but very kind miracles. And now the new astral twins have been discovered ...

Sociologist Vladimir Yadov , on the contrary, is inclined to celebrate the New Year with optimism:

I’m not waiting for noticeable changes from 2009, but I will be happy to tell the readers of the Trinity Option my favorite joke. The sailor was lucky to get out of a sunken ship to a desert island. Like Robinson, he found food and settled down. After a while, longing for a woman was overwhelmed, and he turned his attention to the camel, which constantly grazed not far away. He built a staircase from the bamboo and put to the object of lust. The camel took a step, the gentleman collapsed into the grass. He repeated this attempt again and again, but everything is unsuccessfully. It happened that the storm ruined the next ship and this time the stewardess of unwritten beauty was at sea. Our hero rushed into the abyss and pulled it to the island. When the girl came to, her first words were “you saved my life. Ask what you want. " The sailor immediately answered: "Listen, hold a camel." On the eve of the New Year, we wish ourselves not to resemble the hero of the joke and always act, guided not only by emotions, but also by reason.

3. Happy New Year in my life such a story is connected. One of my scientific friend (I will not give his name) had an anniversary. He decided to run away from celebrations and left for Spain. I managed to find out the hotel phone. The porter asks: "Sir, do you know what time is now?" I say that in the Middle European about an hour of the afternoon. I hear: "Now is the time of siesta, sir." Further - beeps. It is clear that the readers of the Trinity Option do not comply with the siesta, and not only because of our climate. We will not think about business and spend a couple of New Year's days in an idle feast with loved ones and friends. The year is difficult. We break through!

Geochemist Andrei Kalinichev is waiting for a lot from our newspaper:

1. Although I am not a geologist in my specialty, I have been working closely with geologists all my life in science. Nevertheless, they never take me to geological field expeditions. The answer is always something like this: "You still think only on a computer, why do you need in the field?" Therefore, I usually go to the field, indeed, not so much for the sake of science as out of curiosity. In 2008, a trip to Hawaii was remembered
volcanoes, the viscosity of the lava melts of which I once helped to count on my wife. This year, we finally saw them live.
But, most importantly, 2008 is significant first of all by the fact that this year the “Trinity Option” began to come out and quickly becomes popular in its new general scientific reincarnation.

2. From 2009, I am waiting that the TRV will become a truly main and influential all -Russian scientific newspaper.

Sociologist and scientific journalist Natalia Demina told how the Eiffel Tower noted the New Year and why she didn't like it:

1. This year, meetings with interesting people - physicists and lyrics were remembered. Each time you feel a sense of admiration when you meet a truly smart person, no matter, young or old. Our first steps will also remain in the memory of creating a new newspaper by scientists and scientific journalists, the search for format (about which I.Lintin wrote in her column), the search for the authors, the search for her path.

2. I hope that the New Year will not be as terrible as many analysts predict. And although some of my relatives have already bought bags of sugar, buckwheat and rice, I hope that everything will be fine with the products. My son will turn five years old next year, and it seems that he is about to learn how to read.

3. The famous Russian sociologist Alexander Hoffmann once said: “Remove the holidays from Russia: New Year, February 23, March 8, November 7-and you will see that the country will disappear.” I also do not really like to celebrate the shift on December 31 to January 1. Tired of the ritual and boring “blue lights”, with the same pop-ups, the president’s congratulations, for some reason filling 99% of television channels. For a long time I dreamed of meeting New Year's Eve in Paris. And now the dream came true. My girlfriend and I went to meet the holidays at the Eiffel Tower. She every now and then went to call her friend to the Frenchman, to whom she had sympathy, he promised to come, but did not come. And I, so that we do not get lost in the crowd, stood in one place and waited. Everything would be nothing if adolescents of the Afroevropeans did not entertain themselves that continuously, without resting for a minute, threw firecrackers under the feet of people. It was terrible! Persuasions did not act on them. They really liked how people screech and jump. So the girlfriend “tormented” the Automatic phone, and I was waiting for her, dodging, like on the battlefield, from firecracker. New Year has come very everyday. If it were not for the calls of relatives and acquaintances from Moscow, then the border between the two years could not have be noticed. On the Eiffel Tower there was neither a clock nor any other reference of leaving minutes of the year. Returning to the hotel, I saw that on my jacket, on my back, a burned hole from the firecracker. Perhaps it was the worst New Year in my life. And last year I met more reasonably. The stove in the country gave even and pleasant warmth. My son fell asleep, and I, too.

A graduate of the physical faculty of Moscow State University, a scientific journalist Maxim Borisov , seems to be not a very festive mood:

1. It always seemed to me somewhat unnatural to summarize the results for a year or in a quarter (just like celebrating the anniversaries). It’s the same as expecting that all the continents will certainly be square ... Besides, outsiders are hardly so interesting to the personal life of scientific journalists (in any case, not in this format). However, I will try to at least somehow follow the "rules of the game." ... After the presentation of the unusual and bewitching “metaphysics of Moscow” Rustam Rachmatulin (by the way, it later became a laureate of the “Big Book”) the question arose: what place on Earth I myself would consider the most “metaphysical”. So, I didn’t even have to think about it, the answer arose right away. This is not Moscow, where I was formally born, and not the place near Ramensky, where I lived most of my life, but a village house in the Urals, where all the holidays took place in childhood. Dreams live there, there is a source of unusual inspiration ... And this place we sold this summer ... sold ... it was necessary, and otherwise it was impossible ... This event obscured everything else (durable and sad) that happened this year. The summer month spent in a room with a torn floor, which seems to carry everyone sitting somewhere outside the window, and in a kitchenette with an old stove, flooded with a slanting warm light, where each crack is familiar, again revived all the dreams ... Old things lying in its rightful places (as it was ten, and twenty and thirty years ago) Hollywood science fiction. Alarming them, we ourselves seemed monsters ...

2. Waiting for something next year and so on ... It is pointless, because everything has already happened once in childhood, and now this kaleidoscope only shows the previous fragments in different combinations, killing and crippling what has long been ...