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Another day to remember and show your appreciation for your old man ( Father’s day blog)

I never had the priviledge to celebrate father’s day with my dad for he passed away when I was still a kid in high school. He was my sole financial supporter and he was everything to me in the whole… Continue Reading →

Can Math and Physics cure Cancer?

I became obsessed with mathematics and physics when I was a junior in high school. Those were the two subjects which I spent most of my time studying. Many of my friends and classmates studied for the sake of passing… Continue Reading →

The excitement over a possible new particle

The discovery of the Higgs Boson back in 2012 was another victory for the standard model. It is by far the best theory we have in describing how the fundamental particles are interacting with each other at the subatomic level… Continue Reading →

Einstein and Pi- Day

March 14 is the closest calendrical approximation of pi and this year it falls on Tuesday of 2023. This so called pi-day is celebrated every year by not only the scientifically minded folks but to the general public around the… Continue Reading →

A Personal Creed: Three major influences in my life

As a child growing up in Hong Kong, my performance in school was below the required standard especially when it came to mathematics.  I failed mathematics all the way through 7th grade and it was the most horrific subject for… Continue Reading →

Another victory of General Relativity ( Valentine Blog)

Once again General Relativity has declared a victory in the world of science. On Feb 11, 2016, scientists have officially claimed the discovery of gravitational waves, the last piece of phenomenon predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein when he… Continue Reading →

Lunar New Year: The year of the monkey

On Feb 8, do not be surprised when someone approaches you and say ” Kung Hey Fat Choi” if you are Asian. That day is Lunar New Year and this is the year of the monkey. It should be a… Continue Reading →

Mysterious connection of Pi and Quantum Mechanics.

How can anyone not recognize Pi (π) which is the most well known transcendental number in mathematics? It is defined as a ratio of the circumference to the diameter of any circles and it appears frequently in geometry when we… Continue Reading →

A Tale of Nobody

Her birthday has gone by And nobody sent her a present Nobody thinks of her that way Another Xmas and New Year have gone by And nobody was there to celebrate with her Nobody cares about her that way She… Continue Reading →

Are wave functions real? Objective reality vs subjective state of knowledge about the observer.

Quantum Mechanics is by far the best theory in describing the subatomic world. It is the physics applicable to particles no larger than the size of an atom. Quantum physics has given us the microchip technology, the computers, the cellular… Continue Reading →

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