Nowadays, it is very common to hear non-American people speaking ill of the US. Probably most of them have already learned not to hate Americans as people, however, they hate America as nation. Then, why are there so many people who want to reach the “American Dream” ? That’s definitely beyond me.We all know the US is the world’s largest economy, the one country on the face of the earth which has reached the hyperpower status (militarily, politically, technologically, economically and culturally dominant). Most Americans think it has been earned through hard work and the right policies, maybe, maybe not. I’m not going to discuss it here for a couple of reasons that I don’t want to get into now. However, I’d like to know what exactly the worldwide known “American Dream” is or at least whose such pathetic idea it was. Very many people who claim it have told me about it as a satisfying and successful life, something like “come to America and you’ll become billionaire”. But is that really possible for every single person who wants to enter the US? I, myself, think “American Dream” is a fake idea for the next reasons: It ignores so many crucial factors such wealth and family one is born into which determines the initial conditions (the results are almost always different even with determination and hard work). Everything is about consumerism, people working hard for material possessions, which promotes social inequality (in most cases due to selfishness).

On the whole, the “American Dream” seen in terms of American capitalism is a great economic model which produces a lot of money, it is also an economic model which produces poverty, though. Then, where’s the true dream? I can’t see unequal opportunities as a common dream. After all, there are not great countries without big problems.

Last two days, I’ve had a disastrously bad time since I got an aweful lot of things to do and as I’ve been feeling ill for almost 48 hours, I’ve not been able to get them done. I had a terrible headache this morning so I decided to stay at home the whole day in order to feel better tomorrow. I think it worked, I’m in good health now.The first day, I tried to post a new blog entry but I didn’t even succeed in writing the first line. I crouched over my keyboard staring at a blank screen, that was the only thing I managed to do for a while (maybe for 36 hours).
I suddenly found a kind of strange inspiration and I started writing a story. If I tell you about it, you’ll surely find me crazy.

The point is that I found a new skill of mine, one skill I didn’t know I had. Anyways, I’m not good at characterization yet; That’s another thing I’ll have to improve in the near future, however, I do think I’m good at writing at least as an amateur writer.

I think that writing is a very good way to expand the intellect, in the same way reading expands our vocabulary, however, reading by itself is not enough to open the mind to new ideas, I mean, an interactive reading is always necessary (writing and doing).

This morning, while taking the breakfast, I read a couple of interesting articles on quantum physics (the physics of infinite probabilities). I was actually thinking to myself, in one of my very many imagined conversations with someone, that the implications of Quantum Mechanics theory for the way most people see their lives are quite a few. According to our perception of reality, everything has a definite position, momentum and time of occurrence. However, in a given space in a finite time, the Quantum Mechanics theory can’t give us the exact values for the position and momentum of a certain particle, instead, it provides a range of probabilities of where that particle might be (position) and where it might go (momentum). We can only know the position of that particle or its momentum but not both the position and momentum at the same time. These particles can even change spontaneously their position from one place to another for no apparent reason (it’s a strange behavior of nature). In other words, we can’t even be sure about the existence of things. Particle physicists have discovered that within the matter an object contains, there is actually much more empty space than matter, since the quantum effects constantly produce particles out of nothingness which disappear few moments later. The true nature of nature at the smallest scales seems to be so complicated to understand for the common human mind. For example, at this moment, I’m writing this blog entry into my laptop computer whose matter (small particles: protons, electrons…) appears and disappears all the time, however, there’s a high probability of its existence itself, at least as an object according to the perception of the human mind. Then, what the hell is reality? Life is not at all what most of us believed. I, myself, think what we see as reality is just a manifestation of our perceptions, just an illusion of the human mind.I’m not an expert at this subject but I enjoy spending time reading things involving mathematics in some way. Quantum Mechanics (quantum physics) and General Relativity (astrophysics) are the most important theories in modern physics, but there are apparent incompatibilities between them, especially within their fundamental assumptions. The resolution of these incompatibilities is an area of active research where the main goal is the formulation of a complete theory of quantum gravity, a unified theory involving the Quantum Mechanics theory and General Relativity theory.

By the way, I actually read an interesting book called “Faster than the Speed of Light” by Joao Magueijo which is an easy-to-read book on astrophysics (General Relativity and his own theory called VSL). I really recommend it to you.