Do people really know who Stephen Hawking was?
Do we really know who Stephen Hawking was? We know what he looks like and that he contributed much to science. But asking exactly what he contributed will likely leave …
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Knowing the Mind of God: Einstein’s unfinished symphony, Hawking’s partial unification (part 2)
General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics = Troubled Marriage in Short Distances One of the biggest scientific challenges today is the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. Einstein’s baby or prima …
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Knowing the Mind of God: Einstein’s unfinished symphony, Hawking’s partial unification (part 1)
I was an undergraduate astronomy major studying the physics of the “Schwarzschild Black Holes” when I decided to study the laws of the quantum field theory in a black hole’s …
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The Philippines’ traffic problems will never be solved. Here’s why…
The thing with the traffic mess in Metro Manila is that it is easy to pontificate about the ideal long-term solutions — “consistent enforcement of traffic rules”, “construction of more …
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What came before the Big Bang singularity?
Renowned popular-science writer and prizewinning author Timothy Ferris (Coming of Age in the Milky Way, The Mind’s Sky) opens his seminal book titled The Whole Shebang – A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report …
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How Christopher Nolan’s #Interstellar unified all time travel movies for me
I finally got around to seeing Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. It’s alright, I guess. I liked the way they turned these complex relativity principles into visual eye candy, specially that part …
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Filipinos have to WANT a better Philippines badly enough to abolish the pork barrel
I realise now after having read an amusing article recently published by one of the staunch apologists of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III that there is a fundamental assumption …
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Looking beyond PNoy’s hypocrisy: the beauty of keeping your mouth shut
The momentous and much-praised (to the point of being overrated) victory of PNoy’s administration in ousting former Chief Justice Renato Corona from office was marred by the president’s blatant hypocrisy …
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