Something Peculiar!!

Hello again,

Surfing the web I've just found this peculiar publication: http://listverse.com/2010/12/03/10-controversial-apocalyptic-theories/

It's a about the top 10 controversial apocalyptic theories. Some particularly peculiar theories listed are the following:

The biblical book of apocalypse (also known as the book of Revelation), ranked 10th in the list, it states the world will suffer from earthquakes, fire, plague, hailstorms, and many other calamities. After these cataclysmic events, the Antichrist will gain domination over the world.

Occuping the 9th place is the hindu profecy named Kali yuga. Kali yuga is known as the age of the demon, Kali. It states that the world will destroy ifself, humanity will deteriorate and fall into barbarism.





The world war III is listed in the 7th place, it claims that the end of the world will be the result of a global war involving more than 2 continents.

The Geomagnetic Reversal fenomenon is in the 4th place. This theory involves the inversion of earth's magnetic field, during this period it will not protect us from the dangerous radiation that comes from space and the life at Earth will not be possible.

Other theories are a pandemic that will spread over a wide geographical area, or throughout many countries, the eruption of a super volcano that will block out sunlight for several years, causing worldwide famines and life extinction.

Definitely a peculiar publication.

A place where I'd like to go

Hello again,

Today's post is about the place in the world where I'd like to study, work, or live.
Hard question, but I always have admired the United States, particularly the states of New York and California.
I like those states because both seem to be cosmopolitan places.

New York is one of those places where you can think like you are at the capital of the world, because there you can see people from practically all countries and potentially learn a lot from their cultures. Unfortunately, New York is a quite freezing place in the winter.

On the other hand (or "in the other coast") there is the state of California, one of the richest states of USA. I liked the city of San Francisco, one of the major cities in California, because it has a mediterranean weather - you will never see snow there -, there are a lot of places to go like for example: Chinatown, restaurants, the Golden Gate bridge, the old prison of Alcatraz, and the beach.

My dream is go to San Francisco and study a Phd in Physics (or in Biophysics) after I finish my undergraduate studies. I'd like to study at University of California or Stanford, respectively placed in the cities of Berkeley and Palo Alto, both near to San Francisco.

A website related to my career

Today, I'm presenting www.arxiv.org, an excellent website related to my career.

Arviv.org is an online database which contains thousands of scientific publications called "papers". These papers are organized by area and come from people working at universities around the world. The website also has an internal search engine where you can look for publications related to a specific topic.

Each publication contains information about the authors and the institution where they work - in most of cases a university -. There are several publications from the science faculty of University of Chile, most of them are related to theoretical physics and math.

You also can see online the full content of the paper and download it as ".pdf" file if you wish.

I like this website because there I can realize how big the world is and how many people are interested in the same topics I am.

Introduction

Hello everyone,

I've just created this blog in order to practice my english.

I live in Santiago, Chile. I'm currently attending at an english class at University of Chile, my teacher is Daniela Silva, she also studied at University of Chile and seems to be a very nice person.

I'm studying Physics at the science faculty, I currently have four classes: Classical Mechanics, Algebra, Calculus, and Introduction to Science. 

My faculty is part of the "Juan Gómez Millas" campus. The campus has the name of a distinguished teacher of my country. There are several other faculties in my campus, for example: Philosophy and Humanities, Education, and Journalism.

A very interesting place in campus is "the grasses" where students spend time together, talk, drink, and create bondings with each other.


That's all I can say for now.

Mauricio