Archivo «Sábado, 04/sep/2010»
By Paul Davies, a physicist, writer and broadcaster, and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University (THE GUARDIAN, 04/09/10):
Cosmologists are agreed that the universe began with a big bang 13.7 billion years ago. People naturally want to know what caused it. A simple answer is nothing: not because there was a mysterious state of nothing before the big bang, but because time itself began then – that is, there was no time “before” the big bang. The idea is by no means new. In the fifth century, St Augustine of Hippo … Seguir leyendo
By Samuel C. Florman, the chairman of a construction company and the author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/09/10):
On Sept. 1, 1945 — 65 years ago this week — I arrived in Leyte Gulf, the Philippines, aboard a Navy transport ship. Along with other newly commissioned ensigns in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, I was prepared to join one of the Seabee battalions being mustered for an invasion of the Japanese mainland. However, as we had learned during our voyage across the Pacific, the A-bombs had been dropped and Japan had capitulated. As … Seguir leyendo
By Eliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/09/10):
Talks this week mark the beginning of new negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. If the parties can devise a compromise to get past the expiration this month of Israel’s partial freeze on settlement construction, they will be off and running.
How far they can run, however, depends on whether the United States can avoid three errors that would harm, and perhaps doom, the discussions.
The first mistake is … Seguir leyendo