The Existence Of Dark Energy Proven?

Appropriate theme, yes?

I stifled a snicker when a friend (Xtin again! Grrrr...) provided a link to an article stating that a group of young scientists have proven Albert Einstein's previous proposal that dark matter and dark energy exist.

The team is headed by astrophysicist Reinabelle Reyes. Reinabelle is an alumna of the Ateneo De Manila University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Physics. She did this study while completing her Ph.D. studies at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Reina, together with her team, also identified a hidden population of powerful black holes in the universe, putting her in newspapers in 2008, according to another article.

I frankly do not know to which I would say "WHOA!" first: Whoa because Reinabelle made these studies, or Whoa because the existence of dark energy is being studied and proven?

(Of course, nothing beats reading the actual study to reasonably say that the existence of dark energy has indeed been proven.)

But this certainly has implications in the living world, the so-called yin-and-yang, the balance of opposites. For we all know that the world that we live in is a loose microcosm of the world outside the one that we know. Everything is somehow linked to one another.

For instance, would it still be prudent to say that all creations are by nature, good?

Is the human being really inherently good?

More questions???

To ask questions about our immediate surroundings, sometimes it takes us to look way beyond ourselves and our environment.

Hmmm, can I go back to reading about Orlando Bloom instead?

My sources are this, this, and this. Photo from the Wiki site.

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Walking Around Ateneo

Yesterday I found myself inside the Ateneo de Manila compound, my vehicle tearing through torrents of rain as it dashed towards the Christian Life Community Center. It was an appointment with Je's sister-in-law: we were ironing the details of Je's 40th day death anniversary celebration. The meeting lasted for about two hours, and by the time I got out of the building the sun was shining ridiculously bright, as if it did not rain at all.

I decided to walk around, which I haven't done around ADMU in a long while.

I love roaming around the ADMU campus, even though I did not study at the Ateneo. In many ways, I have linkages to the Ateneo. My cousins studied here, and most of my friends are Ateneans. Je is, likewise, a product of the Ateneo.

(I have nothing against La Salle, before you begin to think otherwise.*smiles*)

Before, when I was a lot younger, it was just, at most, a matter of comparing my own school with the Atenean landscape. (I certainly care about my school, UP Diliman, but I always felt that it is not as pretty as Ateneo. But this is just my opinion.) This time, as I trod along the roads awash by the rains, scintillating beneath the afternoon sun, I realise that walking on Ateneo grounds now means a whole lot more to me than just roaming around.