サルスベリの花のある風景５ (Scenery with Crape-myrtle Blossoms 5)

　2010年8月24日、堺市・鈴の宮団地の小公園で撮影。

The photo was taken at a small park in Suzunomiya Estate, Sakai, on August 24, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About Books

Book Review, Guy Deutscher's "Through the Language Glass," New York Times. —The review is so good that it makes me want to read the book.

About Sports

都市対抗野球、珍しい私と同姓の多幡雄一選手（写真）のいるホンダ（狭山市、昨年優勝）を応援していたが、さる３日の対東京ガス戦で２—４で負け、連覇を逃していたことを、いまインターネット検索で知った。

About Universe and God

"Are we living in a designer universe?" Telegraph. —It is interesting that John Gribbin wrote this article just before "Hawking's denying God's creation fever." (I wrote the same comment on the Facebook page of Gribbin. He replied, "Well spotted!")

"Is physicist S. Hawking right that physics, not God, created the universe?" Poll, Gardian Yes: 37.5%, No: 62.5%. What do you think?

[From F414] God was created by imagination; the universe by energy. The universe came first.

[To F414] Yes, I think so too. I wanted to hear rather comments on the result of the poll. When I saw the result about 8 hours before the closing of the poll, "Yes" was 85%, and I thought the opinion of the British was sound. However, I was surprised at the final result.

[From F414] God is comforting; the unknown is not. Personally I love the unknown, the unthought, the not yet imagined; but that's just me.

[To F414] Science seeks for the truth of Nature; religion, the peace of mind as you mean by the words "God is comforting." From this point of view, the poll itself (or Hawking's saying) is nonsense. There should be no debate between science and religion.

Exchange of Words with Friends

[To chiamai] Hi, It's perhaps morning there. I woke up from a nap after lunch.

[From chiamai] HI! Yes it's morning, and I'm up a bit later as it's Sunday. Have a nice afternoon :)

[To chiamai] Your time zone is UTC+2 hours including +1 hour of daylight saving time (DST), right? Ours is UTC+9 hours. In what months do you use DST?

[From chiamai] Right, we are currently UTC+2 hours. DST in the European Union is used between the last Sundays of March and October. What about Japan?

[To chiamai] We used DST from 1948 to 1951 but don't use it now. Only in the most northern area, Hokkaido, it is used experimentally.

[From itadori3] サルスベリは今わが家に咲いている唯一つの花で、暑さにため息をつきながら毎日眺めています。猿がすべることからこの名前とか…。孫に教えたけど「ウソつき」という顔をされました。漢字は関係ない「百日紅」なんですね。

[To itadori3] サルスベリの木の肌は、サルがすべりそうなほどツルツルなので、その名があり、百日紅と書くのは、花の咲く期間の長さからの別名を当てているのでしょう。