A FAMILIAR SMILE

A familiar smile
greeting you for a while
As you walk by the road
A smile that unburdens your load

As the greeting touches your heart
Adding joy to the day's start
Father thank you for friends
Bearing messages of love that Jesus sends

by carmen herrera uy, november 25, 2013

AT THE END OF THE JOURNEY

At the end of the journey
Lord, please welcome me
Unto the place you've planned
Take me with your hand

The long road makes me weary
but I feel solace in the arms of Thee
That I know waits at the bend
As I believe in life that does not end

by carmen herrera uy, november 24, 2013

dedicated to all victims of tragedy especially typhoon yolanda victims

THE EARTH'S GRAVITY

Why does any free-falling object pulled to the Earth's surface? So many complicated theories are presented in the net, mostly due to magnetic forces, some of which are backed by mathematical equations, but none seems to be sensible.

Well, could the pulling of an object without support to the center be likened to a centrifuge that we encountered in our chemistry class? Elements, liquid and solid, are placed in a test tube in an experiment, and the test tube are made to spin clamped to the centrifuge to gather the formed particles to the bottom of the tube.

The centripetal force caused by this rotation willed the particles to settle towards the center of the centrifuge,being more denser than the liquid in the solution causing it to gather at the bottom of the test tube.

I am not really very sure that gravity is caused by both spinning and revolving of the earth. But earth continues to spin and revolve, due to angular momentum and the inertia of motion.

The net says that we continue to be in the gravitational field of the Earth within about 10 times its radius. Just like David's stone tied in a string and spun around, letting it go to hit the target's eye, it escapes the centripetal force, to let it go free-willing, as we have in space travel.

by carmen herrera uy, november 23, 2013

MASS DISTRIBUTION BELOW THE EARTH

As a Physics Major, I was given the opporunity to come across the laws of physics that could have a bearing on the destruction of some parts in the Visayan Islands of the Philippines by this typhoon Yolanda. I theorized that this could be due to the "rape" of mother nature by careless and rampant harvesting of minerals like oil.

Earth rotates counterclockwise, for our night and day, and revolves around the sun to make a year for it's complete revolution, responsible for the different seasons around the world.

And what makes the earth to spin and revolve around the sun undisturbed, continously? ANGULAR MOMENTUM, which is defined as an amount of rotation an object has, taking into account its mass and shape, and the law of inertia states that a body at rest or in motion continous to do so unless disturbed by an outside force.

Einstein's law of relativity stated in an equation that an object is capable of giving energy, the measure of which is defined in his equation E=MxCsquared or energy that can be derived is its mass multiplied by the speed of light raised to the second power.

So as nature distributes the Earth's elements within it, the natural order of the Universe, leads on to Earth's friendly existense.

As I believe, the measure of the mass of an object includes the distribution of trillions and trillions of particles inside the object, each particle giving rise to different elements within, with different properties, resulting to an uneven distribution of densities within the mass, like that of the Earth.

Oil was formed below the earth's surface as an act of nature on decaying organic materials after millions and millions of years, as its means of "instinct" of self preservation.

With wanton harvesting of oil and other minerals, we are disturbing Earth's "law of self-preservation"...The "right amount" of distribution of these minerals as established by the law of nature could be destroyed by irresponsible digging for minerals.

So, let all nations unite to regulate "harvesting" these minerals, responsibly...For I believe too, that man was created by God, with an intelligence enough to work with nature to release these minerals accumulating inside the earth that may cause it to expand uncontrollably and may have an effect on it's rotation and revolution around the sun, like global warming, and volcanic erruptions.

We spend so much for space exploration. Why don't we leave enough resources for Earth preservation?

by carmen herrera uy, november 23, 2013

I STILL DO BELIEVE

At the midst of all of the destruction
Caused by the weather on earth's dominion
Lord, moments of doubt invaded my mind
that gave in to hope, in my heart did I find

At the mass my sight you led to your cross
telling my soul in Faith, there's no loss
Your teachings Oh Lord, they are all so true
realizing that after every doubt, is love for you

by carmen herrera uy, november 22, 2013

GOD WHERE WERE YOU

If all these speculations are true
These disastrous typhoons are not by you
Why did you let evil men these to do
Oh God, where were you

If thousands did die in this disaster
And more lost their livelihood and shelter
That you caused it is easier to accept
Than think to these men's wiles we were left

But then you are God all-powerful
Above these men you will rule
One act of justice from you
Will wipe away them too

Whatever the cause, these you have planned
to strengthen our faith in your guiding hand
Oh God, to the question, where were you
I believe within our hearts as faith grew

by carmen herrera uy, november 20, 2013

THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE SKY

The magnificence of the sky
quietly answers why
Why you made me
It is all for this glory

The magnificence of the sky
causes me to silently cry
Tears of happiness
At the sun's caress

As the sun hid beneath the cloud
Its linings shone out so proud
Proud to be a part of creation
Submitting to God's dominion

by carmen herrera uy, July 20, 2013