Aloysius Hettiarachchi According to news reports coming out from the most technologically advanced nation on earth today, the United States of America, new breakthrough, are coming every day so much so that they are now aiming to go back in time as far as computing is concerned. This is called de-computing. This is being explained […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi. According to reports a gem exhibition was held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel on the fourth of January in which the chief guest had been the Prez Anura Kumara Dissanayake as shown in the image shown below: Sri Lanka had been a gem mining and exporting country for millennia. The Moroccans have been coming […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi As a senior citizen concerned with the statement made by the chairmen of the CEB and the request for comments on the EIA of the Galle Harbour extension project, I thought of giving my two cents worth in this forum. I have viewed the credentials of the current chairman who has had many […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi The most recent award for the Nobel Chemistry price was for decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development to US scientists, namely David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis, last week. But is it really necessary. Will it not only make […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi I came across this interesting podcast by a presenter/interviewer Lex Fridman, who has built a name for himself. He is a Russian born Jewish person who emigrated as a child with parents to the US during the break-up of the Soviet Union. He is an expert in the IT and Electrical Engineering field […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi It was yesterday that BBC and other main world media showed how some devices exploded on vegetable stalls in open air markets somewhere in Lebanon. I do not think what they showed in the markets were pagers. Most likely some of them were just mobiles the vendors placed on their tables while selling […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Continuing with the above theme on which we all seem to be affected one way or another in our everyday life, I would like to give my own explanation as given below. This includes my own belief on ‘Rahu Kalaya’, and the extraordinary  climate changes that we all are experience all over the […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Holy Grail as defined by Oxford Languages dictionaries have two meanings: The first being the cup or platter Jesus Christ supposed to have used in his last supper, in the upper room of the building with his disciples. The second being the eagerly sought after medical cure for all holy grail”. The second […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi   It appears that my previous article questioning the useful lifespan and the stability of Victoria Dam (designed by a company named Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners that has been sold or responsibility transferred to a US consultancy), has received world-wide attention. According to an article by one Maddie Burakoff titled ‘How are ancient […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi At this very moment the concrete used for the construction of large number of schools in the United Kingdom have been found to be of poor quality. It seems some have collapsed and others are crumbling. According to their BBC World Service around 150 schools are affected and many have been closed. It […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi It was announced that our country is to go for nuclear energy with the help of Russia according to a news item on Sirasa this evening.. As a country we always start late. Color TV was one. But then we do it in style. Radio Ceylon that captured the hearts of Indians was […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi The term ‘cloud’ in cyber space refers to a server farm in large box type buildings constructed in remote areas in the US or cold Western countries like UK, Iceland, Norway etc. Sometimes they immersed the servers in water to dissipate the heat they generate or send water through the servers to keep […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Given below is a link to an experiment conducted recently on the above subject based on modern science and engineering which might be interesting. This explains how energy used in preparing the western medicines out of elements and minerals gives away that energy in the form of electro-magnetic waves of high frequency to […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi I write with respect to Dr. Obesekera’s article that appeared a couple of days ago in this forum. He, perhaps presented a novel concept for capturing free solar energy by the fisher folk. This seems to be practical. However storing sufficient energy is the problem as the technology to convert that energy by […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi I write with respect to Dr. Obesekera’s article that appeared a couple of days ago in this forum. He, perhaps presented a novel concept for capturing free solar energy by the fisher folk. This seems to be practical. However storing sufficient energy is the problem as the technology to convert that energy by […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi On today’s BBC World service (19.11.22) they showed buses and cars running on liquid Hydrogen. This appears to be a new innovation perhaps initiated by tech companies or universities of the UK and is very relevant to the day’s happenings. COP27 is taking place in Egypt and Qatar is showcasing its financial clout […]

D. W. A. Hettiarachchi Our country’s food production was almost destroyed by a stroke of a pen perhaps due to wrong advice to the authorities. But was there a massive use of chemical fertilizer even in early 70s when Mahaveli was not in the horizon?. I do not think so. I was about 9 years […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Now that the inevitable has happened, let us all get together and put forward a plan of action to make most of what is left for Mother Lanka. Sri Lanka should get the help of the international community to obtain the maximum compensation, without any part of it going into any Individual or […]