Defining exactly what time is remains a difficult thing in spite of the effort made in the field of science and of instruments of observation and measurement. Each of us would give the answer of the philosopher Saint AUGUSTIN concerning its meaning: “if they don’t ask me, I think I know, but if they ask me, I don’t know”. Contemporary ... Read More »
FOR A UNIVERSAL MORALITY Letter from ALBERT EINSTEIN to the powerful heads of states after the Second World War
Letter from ALBERT EINSTEIN to the powerful heads of states after the Second World War (*). As far as I can see, there is one consideration [that] stands at the threshold of all moral teaching. If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for ... Read More »
Unification and universality of natural phenomena in memory of Abdu-Salam
Ahmed Abdu-Salam, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 passed away 25 years ago, on November 21, 1996 in London. After having contributed to the progress of world research in the field of physics, in particular through his large physics research center which he had founded in Trieste, Italy in 1964. Abdu Salam, who received several prizes and several distinctions, was ... Read More »
THE LONG TERM SACRIFICED BY THE PRESENT.
Defining exactly what is time is a difficult task in spite of the effort made in the field of science and of tools of observation and time measurement. Each of us would give the answer of the philosopher Saint AUGUSTIN concerning its meaning: “What is time then? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain ... Read More »
Interview with the director of Lte magazine
Interview conducted by Mr. Mohammed Taher SBIHI, management researcher, with Mr. Ahmed Khaouja, director of Lte magazine, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Lte magazine Question 1, Let me come back for a few moments to the idea itself of creating this magazine, which makes telecoms, digital technology and regulation its favorite areas? Answer: In response to your ... Read More »
Message from a Martian to a human
Dear humans, we, Martians, are very sensitive to your great efforts to join us here on our planet Mars. But unfortunately, we really don’t want to see you come to us. It’s not a lack of hospitality on our part or a lack of space at home, either. We have it all what we need in fact. To say the ... Read More »
May 17, the inescapable anniversary
A certain global crisis, unparalleled, which still strikes all countries, has revealed the essential role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It also revealed the great disparities, between poor and rich countries, and differences locally, within the same countries, between rural and urban areas. Faced with this unprecedented crisis, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is working tirelessly for ICTs development ... Read More »
Covid-19: Some lessons to be learned from the mid-term review (March 2020-March 2021)
From a scientific and technological point of view Telecoms networks and information technology have enabled humans to develop resistance to the pandemic. The last time a virus was so devastating was in 1918, when the famous Spanish flu broke out. At that time, there were barely 13 million landline telephones in the world, for a world population of 1.86 billion. ... Read More »
The search for unity is the engine of great physicists.
Unintentionally perhaps, science sometimes manages to unify phenomena which seem to be distant in appearance. Thus, at the beginning of the 1980s in the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratories (CERN) in Geneva, the electromagnetic force, exerting its influence over relatively large distances, was unified with the weak nuclear force, force acting at the heart of the atomic nucleus and ... Read More »
Le marathon de la prétendue liberté.
L’impossible confinement : Depuis qu’il a appris à marcher, l’Homme ne tient plus en place et passe son temps à errer. Ainsi, cette habitude de s’agiter dans toutes les directions, acquise à travers les époques, l’a rendu irréductible et impossible à mettre entre quatre murs. Et quand il est contraint à rester près de la grotte, comme lors du confinement imposé ... Read More »