October 12th, 2006
Although Albert Einstein’s ideas served to pave the way for a new branch in physics, called quantum mechanics, he struggled all through his life to counter its validity and implications . His critique was centred upon the fundamental quality of probability that rules the world of quantum mechanics. When faced with the fact that in the subatomic realm nothing can be extrapolated and relies, at best, on statistics, he exclaimed: “I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. – Gott würfelt nicht.” As a matter of fact, however, he had to admit that the ‘old’ physics as developed by Sir Isaac Newton can neither predict nor explain what happens in the microcosmos
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October 4th, 2006
General elections took place last weekend in Austria . Regardless of what you might think of the outcome and the interpretations and conclusions taken, I would like to highlight one worrying detail: the portion of voters not going to the elections (about 26 %) was almost as high as that of the strongest party. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 3rd, 2006
Over the weekend, I have worked upon implementing wordpress into criscom.at, adjusting the design, filling it with content and get this cool publishing plattform working
. Thanks to Max and Flo for pointing wordpress out to me and helping with installation and some starting problems . Read the rest of this entry »
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October 1st, 2006
This year’s trip to Bali has been one of the most rewarding journeys I have ever made. It will be remembered as a classic trip to an extraordinary island. Although with only 14 days net in Bali, our holiday has been characterised by diversity, serenity and community.
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October 1st, 2006
It’s now 10 days since Sylvia and I have returned from an astounding trip to Bali. With expectations irritably low, it turned out to be a classic trip which saw us catching up with my dear friends from Australia, Gerhard and Rosemarie, at the beginning and John, Simone, Julian and Andreas at the end.
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