Binary Black Holes

Binary black holes! :O

"As the first time such a binary black hole has been confirmed to exist in a quasar, the discovery has repercussions for their study. The binary structure may be more common than originally thought."

"Just last week, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking posited that a person passing through a black hole -- which, with its massive gravitational force, is like a bottomless pit that not even light can escape -- may end up in another universe."

Cross-linking this article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28090-stephen-hawking-says-he-has-a-way-to-escape-from-a-black-hole/ Stephen Hawking said:

"You probably know that black holes are stars that have collapsed under their own gravity, producing gravitational forces so strong that even light can’t escape.Anything that falls inside is thought to be ripped apart by the massive gravity, never to been seen or heard from again. What you may not know is that physicists have been arguing for 40 years about what happens to the information about the physical state of those objects once they fall in. Quantum mechanics says that this information cannot be destroyed, but general relativity says it must be – that’s why this argument is known as the information paradox. I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon."

Double black hole powering quasar, astronomers find - CNN.com

The "Right" Kind of "Wrong"

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have." ―Andrew Boyd

We're all seeking that special person who is ...

Focus of an Ellipse!

Mathematician Builds An Elliptical Pool Table In Which Everyone Wins | 9GAG.tv

Incense > Cigarettes

Incense could be more harmful than cigarette smoke, researchers find

6.83 Exabytes

According to my calculations, the average adult human body stores about 6.83 EB (exabytes) or 6 830 PB (petabytes) or 6 830 000 TB (terabytes), which is equivalent to around 427000 16-TB hard drives.

Calculation Part: (If you want to see the process...)

We can interpret "fraction of an ounce of DNA" as "fraction of an ounce of base pairs" since DNA is composed of base pairs. Let that be N ounces of base pairs = 0.3 EB (exabytes) or 300 PB (petabytes) or 300 000 TB (terabytes) data. Now let's incorporate base-pair data from the human genome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome). There are around 5,976,710,698 base pairs (considering that we are diploid) in ONE SOMATIC cell. According to the Nobel Site, there are about one hundred trillion (1 x 10E+14) cells in the human body. The average weight of a base pair is about 650 daltons. Therefore the average number of grams of base pairs the average adult human has in his or her body is:

1 x 10E+14 cells * 5,976,710,698 base-pairs/cell * 650 daltons/base-pair * 1.6605389 x 10E-24 grams/dalton = 645.0964395 grams of base pair
Since 1 ounce = 28.3495 grams, N ounces of base pairs = N * (28.3495 grams of base pairs).
N * (28.3495 grams of base pairs) = 0.3 EB (exabytes)

Let X be the total amount of data an average adult human body can store:
X = 334.1338181 grams of base pair * [0.3 EB / (N * 28.3495 grams of base pairs)] = 22.75512582/N * 0.3 EB = 6.826537747/N EB.

If we approximate N to 1, then X is about 6.83 EB. There is some percent of error since I assumed all cells to be somatic.
http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-dna-could-eventually-replace-hard-drives Here's why DNA could eventually replace hard drives

Quotes from Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

Too much quotes to collect for Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning:

p.28
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as "delusion of reprieve." The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. We, too, clung to shreds of hope and believed to the last moment that it would not be so bad.

p.42
Apathy, the blunting of the emotions and the feeling that one could not care any more, were the symptoms arising during the second stage of the prisoner's psychological reactions, and which eventually made him insensitive to daily and hourly beatings. By means of this insensibility the prisoner soon surrounded himself with a very necessary protective shell.

p.47
Apathy, the main symptom of the second phase, was a necessary mechanism of self-defense. Reality dimmed, and all efforts and all emotions were centered on one task: preserving one's own life and that of the other fellow.

p.57
The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

p.60
"Et lux in tenebris lucet" (Light in darkness shines.)

p.63
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

p.86
the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

p.87
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him - mentally and spiritually.

Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

It is this spiritual freedom - which can- not be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

p.87-88
An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

p.94
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.

p.97
"He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how, (Nietzsche)

p.98
it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

p.103
Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

p.104
Nietzsche: "Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.)

Louie Operator

Back in April 2015, during a retreat, I attempted to "make" my own operator. I'm pretty sure that a similar operator has been done. Why did I use the "heart"? I don't really know... I remember doing this during the communion hour, so maybe the "heart" symbol can mean the love of Christ. It can also mean romantic love. Anyways, from its definition, I started exploring its properties. From its properties, I started exploring theorems. Currently, I don't see errors yet but maybe others can see more. ：D

告白

Kokuhaku, The Art of Love Confession!

Manners Before Knowledge!

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Wrong Syllogism

Just random thoughts... Note the statements: 1. One who is omniscient knows everything. 2. One who is omniscient has nothing he or she does not know. 3. Knowing everything means to know what you don't know. Now, if you combine the statements 1 and 3, you have statement 4: 4. One who is omniscient knows whatever he or she does not know. Statement 4 makes sense. However, statement 2 implies statement 5: 5. Nothing is whatever one who is omniscient does not know. Statement 5 still makes sense. Now, if you combine statements 4 and 5, we finally have statement 6: 6. One who is omniscient knows nothing. Hehe. What's wrong with this? =))

Certainly Uncertain

The only certain thing I can certainly be certain of is that the only certainty in physical values is certainly uncertainty.

Enantiomers

Chiral compounds can either be R or S depending upon the order of the molecules attached to the stereocenter. R, for clockwise arrangement, comes from the Latin word "rectus", which means "right" or "straight". S, for counterclockwise arrangement, comes from the Latin word "sinister", which means "left". Now, this made me wonder why were the words "right" and "left" used for the ideas of "straight"/"correct" and "sinister"/"evil". Does the one who made the naming system (who might be politically right) have something against the politically left? =)) EDIT: Nope it has nothing to do with political agenda. Answer according to Diego: (I think this makes more sense.) It has something to do with most people being right-handed. Anyone who was left-handed was seen as strange or defective at some point in time. Compare "kaliwa" and "saliwa", for example. Actually in Old English "lyft" used to mean "weak". Most people had a dominant right hand, so the other one would be "weak". So "lyft" became associated with the hand we now call "left". It's not about political agendas.

On Friendship

有時候，我認爲在這一輩子我們遇到的每位朋友絕不是意外的事情。真誠的友情是屬於彼此互親相愛、互相栽培的過程。雖然疼痛，我感覺朋友分開的原因就是因爲彼此失去了一道成長、勇往邁進的需要。倘若儘管風雨友情鞏固，此情大概是萬古長存。 "Sometimes, I believe that the friends we meet in this life are not unintentional occurrences. True friendship is a mutually loving and mutually cultivating process. However painful it may be, I feel that the reason behind separation of friends is that both have lost the need of growing and striding forward alongside each other. If that friendship is strong despite trials (wind and rain), then it would most likely be a friendship that is meant to last for long."

6! Times!!

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UPCM 2020: Tambay Hop (August)

UPCM 2020: Tambay Hop

Valuing Life

The completeness of the birth register in our country is estimated to be about 65%. (LMES, 2010) The completeness of the death register in our country is estimated to be about 90%. (LMES, 2010). Well, it's kind of common that death reports are often emphasized in news and all, but this made me ask a question: "Why does death seem to be 'more overvalued' than life?"

Critical Patch (July)

Microsoft releases critical patch for all Windows versions

Hotel Robots in Japan

Japan's robot hotel opens its (automatic) doors - CNN.com

Coin-sized Black Hole in Your Pocket

What If There Was A Coin-Sized Black Hole In Your Pocket? You Die | 9GAG.tv

My Custom-made Archetype for Ygopro

These are the cards personally made by me using a template. Pictures were mixed and matched under Photoshop. Grammar rules for Yu-Gi-Oh (PSCT) are followed. The card effects and the existence of these cards are also programmed/coded for YgoPro. The playing style of this archetype reflects my personality.

Name: Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time Attribute: Divine Race: Creator God ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Level: 14 ID: 906259601 Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. You can only control one "Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time" on the field (face-up or face-down). You can Special Summon this card from your hand or Graveyard by banishing the top seven cards of your Main Deck. This card cannot be targeted by your opponent’s Spell, Trap or Effect Monster's card effects. This card cannot be destroyed by battle. Both players take no battle damage involving this face-up card. While this card is face-up on the field, other monsters you control cannot attack. Remove one Nexus Counter from this card; during your Main Phase: Target one “Nexus” Spell Card in your side of the field, hand, Main Deck, or Graveyard and activate its effect. During your End Phase: Banish one random card from your hand, one on top of your Main Deck, and one random card from the Graveyard.

Name: Ceux Eclaire, Nexus of Arcturus ID: 906259602 This card can only be activated by the effect of “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. Pay 1000 LP; equip this card to “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. The equipped monster gains this effect. ● During your turn: The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK and DEF for every banished “Nexus” Spell Card. If it battles a monster in Defense Position, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. You may banish the top five cards of your Main Deck; this card can attack for the second time. The monster this card destroys is banished instead of being sent to the Graveyard.

Name: Nexus Zone ID: 906259603 This card cannot be targeted by the effect of “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. This card can only be activated when you control a face-up “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. Once during your turn: You can target one monster you control; banish it. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equivalent to the targeted monster's ATK. Your opponent recovers the same amount of Life Points at the End Phase of the same turn.

Name: Nexus Zone ID: 906259603 This card cannot be targeted by the effect of “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. This card can only be activated when you control a face-up “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. Once during your turn: You can target one monster you control; banish it. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equivalent to the targeted monster's ATK. Your opponent recovers the same amount of Life Points at the End Phase of the same turn.

Name: Nexus Zone ID: 906259603 This card cannot be targeted by the effect of “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. This card can only be activated when you control a face-up “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. Once during your turn: You can target one monster you control; banish it. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equivalent to the targeted monster's ATK. Your opponent recovers the same amount of Life Points at the End Phase of the same turn.

Name: Nexus Zone ID: 906259603 This card cannot be targeted by the effect of “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. This card can only be activated when you control a face-up “Gerswin, The Nexus of Space and Time”. Once during your turn: You can target one monster you control; banish it. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equivalent to the targeted monster's ATK. Your opponent recovers the same amount of Life Points at the End Phase of the same turn.

The Pentaquark

The LHC has discovered a brand new class of particles

Famous Logos in Baybayin

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Stock Market

A lot of economical crises are occurring nowadays. There's the Grexit and now, this. Maybe I'll understand about this more if I learn a thing or two about Stochastic processes... Chinese stocks rebound after 2 days of losses

Logos of Great Scientists

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"...light’s intrinsic quantum spin Hall effect..." - Excerpt

Scientists discover fundamental property of light

愛

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World Population Density

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Academic Mindset

“I didn’t even compute my WAG. Uno was never the goal. Whenever I come to class, I take the subject seriously because I’m thinking that whatever I might learn might help me save a life someday." - Excerpt from the Article Funny, quirky side of Tiffany Uy

Be Incensed

'Don't stay silent in face of racism' - Filipina MIT grad

Musical Pi

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