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Quantum Computer
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."Richard P. Feynman ( Read more... ) -
They're Everywhere!
The word robot comes from czech meaning ”laborer” and it describes rather well what some people might think when they hear it. Some kind of machinery to help them to accomplish various tasks, or even to do it on behalf for them - a servant. To others robot means some kind of ”thinking machine”, R2D2 or even a humanoid. Whereas I think that ”robot” ( Read more... ) -
Biggest Bang of The 20th Century
In the beginning of the 20th century the basic problem of astronomy was: are all visible nebulae inside the Milky Way? Or are some of them "island universes"? Before the mount Wilson telescope was opened in 1917 this question was unsolvable, even in principle. Then, in 1923, Edwin Hubble was able to see that the outer region of the Andromeda ( Read more... ) -
Is There Nothing We can Do?
The Earth is an enormous mass of inorganic matter. It’s almost thirteen thousand kilometres thick, with the thinnest margin of life clinging to its surface. It’s a really big rock (big in human scale that is, not so much in the cosmic scale). This big rock has been here, orbiting a much bigger star, for some five billion years, and it will continue ( Read more... ) -
Why Creationism Evolved?
People have always wondered about complicated beauty of nature. We want to understand everything around us, and have since times immemorial ( Read more... ) -
Music and Therapy
“Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” (American Music Therapy Association definition, 2005 ( Read more... ) -
Short Comment on Nearly Everything
In his excellent book: ”A Short History of Nearly Everything” Bill Bryson takes the reader to a journey through space and time, literally. The journey begins from the Big Bang and in the final chapter we are introduced some thoughts about the future, especially the future of life. Sounds like science fiction ( Read more... ) -
Debate lost and won
Some time, not so long ago, I had an opportunity to take a part in a debate. This was going to be the first one for me, ever. The subject was rather difficult question of “Do We Need Supernatural entity” and I was going contra, against ( Read more... )
