„Life without holidays is a long way without an inn.” /Democritus/ Today, 19 October 2023, I celebrate the 12th birthday of my website. As a joke, I asked Bing to write a little birthday poem. I quote only one part from the poem, leaving out the parts about me: „May this birthday be a special one, Filled with joy and cheer. May your site continue to grow, And bring happiness far and near.” /Bing/

My dearest poet, László Lator, died today. His first book of poems is one of my treasured books.

What have the philosophers come to since Plato, who considered mathematics so important that tradition has it that the entrance to his Academy was inscribed with the inscription "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter". After registration, you may ask for a translation of the full text by email.

Thoughts while listening to a podcast In the evening, I started listening to the "Mindenségit!" podcast conversation with Balázs Stump-Bíró. Well, it wasn't a sleep-helping conversation about the end of the human world. I finished listening to the podcast while doing my chores this morning. SBB mentioned techno-optimists a lot. I think that both techno-optimists and Cassandras like SBB lack the knowledge that sees information as energy as much as classical energy, lack the wisdom that appears in a Hungarian proverb; that „Better by wisdom than by force”. After registration, you may ask for a translation of the full text by email.

From my Diary, 26 February 2023. I'm reading Guido Tonelli's book "Genesis" and get annoyed. Again and again I am confronted with the fact that I hardly understand the interpretations of particle physics. For example, why do we talk about particles crawling in and out of a vacuum, which is nothing more than the "workings" of Einstein's discovery of E=mc2, i.e. huge energies can be converted into mass and then mass can be dissipated back into energy? After registration, you may ask for a translation of the full text by email.