Diary of President Jacques Bara

Note from mum: as I mentioned in the post before, Jack's assignment this week is to think as if he were the president of the USA. He has 72 hours to travel wherever there is crisis in the world and solve them. He got 10 days for this assignment. In the middle of the assignment, he asked for some extension to the 72 hours in a 'formal letter/email' to Andy. Well, here is the diary of The President of the USA Jacques Bara. Please do not hesitate to post comments.


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Day 1, 10:00a.m
Today I will start my long 83hours 25mins journey to solve the main world crisises. I will be riding passenger flights as it will decrease my carbon footprint. I am hoping that each stay would be at least 4h long apart from Paris. I will chart the time as it is in America so that it will not confuse me. On every flight I will sleep to gain my energy. This is my, hopefully successful, route through the world (flight times):

· Washington-Brasilia:9hours(doesn’t count), Brazilian rain forests, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
· Brasilia-cairo:21hours25min, homeless, poor, ill people of Africa, Hosni Mubarak
· Cairo-Tokyo:14hours50min, whaling, Akihito
· Tokyo-Jakarta:8hours, unattended people of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
· Jakarta-Paris:17hours50min, this is just a pit stop
· Paris-London:1hour20min, carbon footprint, Queen Elizabeth 2

I took a flight from Washington to Brasilia at 10:00am and flew for 9hours. My flight there was mostly a relaxing sleep and a last minute practice at my speech. Once I arrived at Brasilia, 7:00pm American time, I was greeted by the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in a black Rolls Royce. I thanked him for his kindness and advised him for us to start. He agreed with little suspicion and listened carefully to my offerings. We started once inside the presidential building where he lived, and this is exactly what I said down to the last letter:

“Firstly, I would like to thank you for listening letting me visit and will start. Now I’m sure you realise what is happening to the Brazilian rainforests and so I will advice you to at least consider a ban for bulldozers and anything which may cause a stop to the rainforests here. In addition to this I will announce a stop in supplying nuclear weapons and aircraft parts to your country if you do not agree with me, but I will give your people good supplies if you ban cutting down the Brazilian rainforests.”

He disagreed with my terms with this unexpected reply:
“I am sorry President Bara but our country has a fine management and we do not need your advice. We have fixed the current problem which you have acknowledged and will disagree. Now leave our country and let us deal with our situations for we are a great country and although we respect others we are capable of saying no.”

The vice-president, Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva, added to this:
“Excuse me Luiz, but you are forgetting President Bara’s consequence was a stop to our supplies of nuclear weapons and aircraft parts. I, personally, would accept his help with gratitude and place the ban.”

“But this is the time to show our independence and power, and proudly neglect the offer. We also are not in war with any country or countries and so do not require any nuclear weapons.”

“I respect your independent country as a fellow president and as a human being, but I must remind you of the importance of your rainforests and that I have millions of armies under my control and can declare war at any single time. The forests here are a massive help to stop pollution and are homes to many species of wildlife, so this deserves as much respect as Brazil and can not just be chopped down and used as burning wood!”

“I’m afraid I have to agree with him, we can not just let millions of wildlife get killed or injured!”

“Alas, my vice and you are simply correct and so I admit defeat and will take your offer with gratitude and will respect the many citizens of Brazil whether they are animals or humans.”

Our debate lasted 3h 15min and I am now boarding the next flight to Cairo.

Day 2, 11:25am

As I left the plane I saw about a dozen black jeeps and on one of them was President Hosni Mubarak wearing a pair of sunglasses. He greeted me with respect and I greeted him back. We drove for 45minutes and then stopped for a traditional lunch where we discussed the problem.

“I will make a long speech short, I will go to the capital of each country which is surrounding Egypt and tell each president what I will tell you: Supply your poor citizens with as much as they need and then spread my word to other countries in Africa in doing so you will have support and help from America.”

“Very well, but how do you suppose we get the money?”

“As I said you will have support and help from America; we will buy gems that has been mined here and anywhere in Africa and the money you get must at least half go to the poor.”

“And will you side with us if we were in any war with another country?”

“We will try to help as much as possible but we will not be on your side every time as we have other countries as allies.”

“I accept that and will lend you half-a-dozen jeeps armed with my best men to succeed in your journey to Khartoum, N’djamena and Tripoli.”

“I thank you president for your kindness and would like to begin.”

So I begin my short 3h journey through Khartoum, N’djamena and Tripoli. I began at Khartoum to meet Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir. He greeted me with an unexpected suspicion but I managed to make him listen and I told him exactly what I said to President Mubarak. This went perfectly well and so I headed off to N’djamena to visit Idriss Deby who was incredibly accepting. Finally I visited Tripoli and Baghdadi Mahmudi and so now I’ve got Sudan’s, Chad’s and Libya’s acceptance I head off for Tokyo.

6:15pm
I arrived with much relaxation and told my speech calmly and efficiently.

Although my speech seemed luring Emperor Akihito neglected my offer which was this:

“Firstly I like to thank you for your kindness and a great breakfast. Obviously you already know of the whaling that has been happening in Japan, but I’m not sure whether you know how dangerous whaling is to the wildlife. It causes a break in food chains, it baits whales into extinction. So I ask you as a friend and as a president to stop the constant whaling.”

“President Bara, I have dealt with this and we have declared that our people need the whales for both their meat and their skins. We will not stop whaling under any circumstances!”

“I think you are forgetting the USA’s power over countries in the U.N and we can declare war upon you with many great allies, so my advice is to choose wisely.”

“Are you saying I am stupid? Mr. Bara our country is possibly the worlds finest electrical supplier and can do what we please!”

“Oh come on Akihito, whales are dying, you’re almost declaring war you should be ashamed! What has whales done to your country? Nothing. So I suggest you ban whaling altogether and I will do as you ask.”

“Fine, I agree on one condition: you supply us with monk fish to replace the whales and pay if you want us to supply anymore electrical supplies.”

“I accept, but if you begin whaling once more, well you’ve been warned.”

Well that went smoothly, I only had to bribe him. Next on the list is the capital of the most Muslim-populated country of Indonesia, Jakarta.

Day 3, 2:15am

Now in Soekarno-Hatta, an airport in sunny Jakarta, I was greeted with a plate of fried rice or as they knew it, ‘Nasi Goreng’, given by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s secretary. His translator, not that he could not speak english, was younger than any I’ve seen because she was possibly 19-20years old. We drove in a black Toyota something to a great little restaurant called ‘The Peak’ which, as the name suggests, lay on a small peak. We ate one of the best meals of food I have ever ate. As the dessert came in we discussed about the matter of how little attention poor citizens are getting eventhough the goverment has promised supplies.

“I would like to say just how great food in your country is. Having many poor friends here, they wrote to me once saying though you and the goverment has promise a great deal to the citizens they are not getting any help or attention. I don’t know whether you already knew about this or not, so if you do I will not mention their names. And from this you’ll probbably know what my favour will be.”

“President Susilo says he has given the citizens enough supplies and thinks you are lying and that you are offending him. He says you must leave and tell your friends that they are wrong and will be found out about by this country’s goverment.”

“I have two reasons why you should reconsider your decision. A) The U.S.A has great power and can do many things such as announce war with other countries and Veto. B) If you allow me to show you a place I know in Jakarta where there are a lot of refuges living near the river. I wonder if you’ve been there, it’s really crowded and you Indonesians call it ‘Telukgong’.”

“I’ve driven passed it many times with the president but he never pays attention.”

“How dare you, I have always payed attention to the many citizens and they all look happy!”

“Then, Mr. Susilo why have you never noticed the horrible state they are in and how they are getting moved to a worse place in order to built some buildings there? Although they refuse your goverment keeps trying to move them with force.”

“Fine! I admit my ignorance and arrogance and will agree if you agree not to declare war on us.”

“Very good choice, I will now leave you in peace and I will get reports of your state in a month’s time.”

A great president with a lack of kindness results in war and havoc. As I flew on the next plane to Paris I could not see much as there was a thick calm mist around the ground.

8:05pm

Changed flights to London.

9:25pm

I arrived at London Heathrow airport where security was at half-full. I was picked up by a black limo droven and armed by MI6, the british version of CIA. They told me the Queen was expecting me in Buckingham Palace and her servants has prepared us a tradittional full english breakfast. It consisted of bacon, baked beans, cheese on toast and egg. As we arrived I saw Queen Elizabeth II and her Corgi’s standing under the sunny sky infront of the Palace. We entered and walked to the main hall where we sat on a well-polished teak chair.

“One would like to say how much pleasure One gets with One’s friend.”

“Why thank you Your Majesty. It is a pleasure to see you again. I would like to start now if you do not mind.”

“Certainly, One is very interested in what One’s friend says.”

“I am sure that you, as a Queen, know about global warming and trying to reduce it, so I will make a long speech short. I will give this country a founding of £1,000,000,000 if you will replace every 4x4 with an electrical car or an estate which ever they decide with as much comfort and if it is cheaper than the 4x4 then give them however much cheaper it is.”

“One thinks although this is a marvellous idea One has a problem. What will One do to the 4x4cars and where will One get the estate and electric cars from?”

“Simply recycle the 4x4s into much more needed items such as aircraft parts or weapons.”

“But will the citizens agree?”

“Some might some might think it is a load of...”

“Mr. Bara!”

“I’m sorry your Majesty I was going to say junk.”

“Very well.”

This one might not succeed very well but I am hoping that they will one day accept the facts and become more echo-friendly. Well the last 3days have been amazing, I am now heading back to Washington D.C and am pleased with my work.

My Philosophy

Note from mum: Now this article is not an assignment from any of us or his school. Jack had been reading "Sophie's World" and some modern physics books and he built his own 'philosophy'.

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Time

I think time is like an animation. Every fraction of a nanosecond is a frozen scene (Like an animation!), so 2 scenes would not have the same person even though their both in the same place. So when the idea of time travelling back in time, would mean going back lots of scenes back and stopping at a scene and moving on to the next, then next, and next…In the right speed and order. And with this if someone stopped time, everything ends and never come back because no one is there to re-start time.

End of Universe (Ours)

In addition to the idea of the universe ending if there was no time, I say that the world and beyond will die in two ways:
· It just stops for some reason. (And no! I do not know how, I’m not a scientist am I?!)
· Like I said in the paragraph before, someone will stop time and then causing the universe and him or her to stop.
I have based the first theory on a paper aeroplane. (Yes, you heard it, a paper aeroplane!) For my first reason is because sometimes a paper aeroplane goes of straight and then fall. So that means that the plane (Us) flied straight and crashed (Representing end of the world and beyond).
And also a new universe might be created from the universe before it. So our universe might not be the first to form and evolve.

Time lock

I think (following the idea of time travel, see ‘Time’ paragraph lines 4-7) that when you go back in time, say when your mum and dad married each other and stop them getting married, you will be doing that forever! Let me explain, first of all, if you stop your mum and dad marrying each other then 2 possibilities comes up:
· Possibility A: You were never born.
· Possibility B: You either won’t have any parents, have no dad, or have no mum.
But the effect will be just the same. You would never of gone back in time to stop the wedding (or whatever it was to cause the possibilities) in which case, will mean that your mum and dad got married, and so you were born again, but because you don’t know this, you go back in time again to stop the wedding, and again, and again, and again… So now your in a time lock, and only you or whoever travelled back in time are in it.

If you were US President Jacques Bara Obama

Note from mum:
This is Jack's latest assignment: you were US President Jacques Bara Obama, and you were given 72 hours to go to troubled places and solve human's problem. The 72 hours starts at his first place and then he should include all flight and travelling time. If he needs more time for any urgent mission, he should ask in a formal letter. He has 10 days to complete this task and submit his proposal.

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On day-2, Jack sent us this letter:

Dear Sir Andy Cooke,

I am writing to you to explain why I need more time. I require 11 hours and 15 minutes in order for me to go to London and sort out the crisis in England. I am concerned about how big the carbon footprint of England is. A massive amount of Europe’s carbon footprint comes alone from the UK. I will declare to Queen Elizabeth that I will pay the UK $100,000,000 if she agrees that all 4x4 owners cars get replaced with a diesel powered estate car or an electric car. If she refuses then I will explain to her this is a matter of global warming and people must do as much as they can in order to stop it, otherwise sooner or later massive floods and tides will fill the world from the melted ice caps in any ice bearing country.

Sincerely,

President Jacques Bara Obama of the United States of America

An Interview with Albert Einstein

Note from mum: This is Jack's next assignment. If he had the exclusive opportunity to ask Einsten 10 questions, what would his questions? After figuring out the questions, he has to answer it as Einstein. Any creative thoughts are welcome and there is no right or wrong. Here is Jack's imaginary interview with Einstein.

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1. Jacques: What happens to antimatter and matter if they collide with each other head-on?
Einstein: The molecules inside antimatter and matter will annihilate each other when they are head-on. For some reason this theory works in reverse, so antimatter and matter can just come out of no where, but because of the tiny space in between them there is a chance that they will annihilate each other straight away.

2. Jacques: What caused the Big Bang to happen?
Einstein: Parts of other universes which were destroyed by a black hole which formed and grew itself into a giant explosion which is the Big Bang and then shaped it into the universe we are in now. A black hole is caused when a star has so much gravitational force that even light can not escape it’s clutches, because there is nothing faster than light all objects are pulled in by the force.

3. Jacques: Why is a black hole known as a black hole?
Einstein: The answer isn’t certain but it might be because it pulls in objects into darkness or emptiness.

4. Jacques: Can you tell me about the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)?
Einstein: The LHC is located in Geneva, Switzerland and belongs to CERN, the French acronym for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research; it costs more than £4billion and has a length of 27km. It is still being made and will open sometime in 2008. This large particle accelerator is a key importance and will help scientific theories. One of them is to prove the existence of supersymmetrical particles such as squarks, selectrons, sleptons etc. According to the theory of supersymmetry when the ‘regular’ particles were made by the Big Bang a matching supersymmetrical particle was made with it, these twins have far more mass than ‘regular’ particles making them massively unstable and, so to this, they disappear almost right when they are born.

5. Jacques: What happened when nucleosynthesis occurred only a few minutes after the Big Bang?
Einstein: Nucleosynthesis was the process when new atomic nucleuses were created from preexisting nucleons, protons and neutrons. These earlier particles were created by the quark-gluon plasma from the Big Bang once it cooled below 10,000,000 degree Celsius. A few minutes later, starting with only the preexisting nucleons, nuclei up to lithium and beryllium (both having a mass number of 7) existed but in relatively small numbers. This first process of primordial nucleosynthesis could also be called nucleogenesis. The subsequent nucleosynthesis of the elements (all carbon, all oxygen, etc.) occurs firstly in stars either by what’s known as nuclear fusion or nuclear fission.

6. Jacques: What are the most basic particles which are smaller than atoms?
Einstein:
- Leptons : Electrons, Electron Neutrino, Muon, Muon Neutrino, Tau, Tau Neutrino
- Quarks: Down Quark, Up Quark, Strange Quark, Charm Quark, Bottom Quark, Top Quark
- W Boson Z Boson Gluon Photon
Force Carriers
These are the fundamental particles of the standard model with its partner.

7. Jacques: What order is the periodic table in?
Einstein: It is in the order of their atomic numbers. For example Hydrogen has an atomic number of 1 and so is first. Another thing is the periodic table are made of ‘pure’ elements and so each one of them are not made of other elements (for example carbon dioxide is a mixture between 2 oxygen molecules and 1 carbon so it is not a ‘pure’ element).

8. Jacques: What is it that detonates a hydrogen bomb?
Einstein: Hydrogen bombs work by using the energy of a fission bomb in order to compress and heat fusion fuel. In the Teller-Ulam design, which represents all other multi-megaton yielding hydrogen bombs, this is accomplished by stating a fission bomb and fusion fuel (such as tritium, deuterium or lithium deuteride) approximately into a special, radiation-reflecting container. When the fission bomb is detonated gamma and X-rays emitted, at the speed of light, first compress the fusion fuel, and then heat it to what’s known as thermonuclear temperatures. The fusion reaction creates enormous numbers of high-speed neutrons, which then can cause fission in materials which normally are not prone to it, such as depleted uranium.

9. Jacques: What is the ‘standard model’ of particle physics?
Einstein: The ‘standard model’ of particle physics is the theory which describes three of the four known interactions between the elementary particles (such as protons, neutrons…etc) which made all of matter. It is a quantum field theory developed between 1970 and 1973 which is regular with both quantum mechanics and special relativity. Up to now, almost all experimental tests of the three forces described by the standard model have agreed with its predictions. However, the standard model falls back of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions, firstly because of its lack of the inclusion of gravity, the fourth known fundamental interaction, but also because of the eighteen numerical parameters (such as masses and coupling constants) that must be put ‘by hand’ into the theory (rather than being from the first principles).

10. Jacques: What is an atom made of?
Einstein: A negatively charged neutron, a positively charged proton and a negatively charged electron cloud surrounding the proton and neutron. When the number of protons in the nucleus equals the number of electrons, the positive and negative charges equal out and the atom is electrically neutral; otherwise it is an ion and is either positively charged or negatively charged. An atom is classified according to its how many neutrons and protons it has; the number of protons determines the chemical element of the atom and the number of neutrons determines the isotope of that element.

Dr.Jacques Bara

Note from mum: This is a writing by Jack Bara (11) as his home assignment. It is to picture what his future achievements would be. So he has to write a paper about Dr.Jacques Bara, his achievements and influences from the point of view of an 11-year-old (year 6 pupil) in 2108 or 100 years after now.

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Dr. Jacques Bara Santoso (1997-2078)

Dr. Bara was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and lived there for 8 years until 2005 when he immigrated to England with his mother, Adeline Tummenggung. He went to the Friars primary school in Salford, Manchester for 3 years and then into Manchester Grammar school, in addition to this he graduated a year earlier with flying colours as he was top of his school. He later joined Oxford College in London in where he met his later in life wife, Lucy Whittington. Lucky Cambridge then received him and held him in the path of quantum physics and philosophy. He received a PhD in philosophy and now known as Dr. Jacques Bara. Sadly he was assassinated at the age of 81 by a rifleman whilst in the midst of his holiday around Europe. The rifleman, Dominic Joeman, was arrested and imprisoned for 10 years. His wife, Lucy born in Wigan, said it was a terrible death and that he did not deserve it. He had a private funeral, burnt and then floated off onto the Pacific Ocean inside a ceremonial ‘tub’.

Compact Energy base
At the age of 10 Dr. Bara had a theorem; if a super symmetrical electron neutralizes a normal electron then the same principal would apply to an anti-electron and so would a collision between the three, creating compact energy so compact it develops newly born particles such as neutrons. He kept this and another theorem, which I will explain later, for the rest of his life. Once he was part of CERN he demanded that his theorem should be tested in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). It took 5 years and ₤5000 for him to finally test it. He created, thanks to the newly upgraded technology, a super symmetrical electron and an anti-electron and collide them at approximately the speed of light with an electron. Results came in the next morning and showed that there was compact energy in the centre of the LHC and seemed to be producing large amounts of particles and shooting them at enormous speeds but also seemed to shrink as this happen. A large amount of money was sent to him in the next week in Grenoble where he lived. Compact Energy base revealed a many great deal of secrets behind the very first particles of the very first universe and an aid to his 2nd theory. If scientists can obtain enough compact energy they will be able to create possibly any kind of phenomenon there is. A chance to explore the greatness of what is out there, and a chance to predict phenomenon’s which are not eligible for our fragile life on Earth.

From the Psychological State came Life
Also from the age of 10 a theorem in which the psychological state, the granddaddy of all minds, existed in non-existence and created the first anti-particle, particle and supersymmetrical particle came to his head. Let’s look at the mind and Psychological State first before your mind explodes. Both the mind and Psychological State are real and not real depending on your views. It exists because we think using it; we are separated by others by it. But then we do not see it, hear it, touch it, smell it or taste it so it doesn’t exist. Now the mind can control the universe in tiny proportions, it creates luck from nowhere, it subjects us to individuality. If the mind can do this then surely it can create particles out of nothing by only doing this, so now we have 3 newly born particles (a particle, an anti-particle and a supersymmetrical particle) which will collide and produce many a new particle. Really this isn’t the BIG conversation from Dr. Jacques Bara but instead was something much more complicated something that’ll blow the Psychological State up. First of all you’ll need a view which fits for the commotion. Dr. Bara started with the view in which we can say that the mind is more not real than it is real. He used this view to answer the big debate which is the question: What held the mind when it was in non-existence? His answer is that the mind and Psychological State need not the help of a platform and lived on the thoughts of many people later to be. Many scientists are calculating and examining the human mind and deducting whether he was correct. This might well be another aid to human knowledge if it is correct, expanding the chances for psychic powered technology which could slowly stop Global Warming. Once Global Warming is lessened there will be less floods, crazy weather, heat waves and so on. Many animals that live in the Arctic regions and any ice and snow covered place are dying because of the loose of ice, so this will save a great deal of animals.