For me, the aftermath of the Olympics turned out quite well. The Games by its own terms had a rather predictable outcome: the Chinese won the most medals. China kept its "fake hypocacy mask" role high and entertained us with an overkill of fireworks. Even the solar eclipse before the Games was predictable.

Our site gets a new item. In 2003 I wrote a thesis about Chinese astronomy and about translations from Chinese into Dutch. It gave me the hunger to study Cosmology in China. But that turned out to be more difficult financially and practically than intellectually doable. Being pestered away from China’s glory period of Greek re-invention (not democracy, yet) and bureaucratic illogic measures, I am back home, in a less glorified country that struggles with a decadent portion of democracy; Belgium, the heart of Europe, but the dwarf country with no official government.

While working in Ghent for the energy supply company “Luminus”, I discovered that the city's university offers a "Physics and Astronomy" course. This revived my urge to study Astronomy. I always loved physics, geometry and algebra, but in college I took the linguist’s road.

Many people would name materialistic ideals and sporadically travelling, if they were asked what they would do when they would have won the lottery. I would invest the money and go to several other universities for learning, combined with teaching. After nearly five years of China, I got addicted to knowledge.

This brings us back to that new item on our website. Yes, it is “Astronomy”

Why is astronomy now part of our website? Like wing chun kungfu, it is part of my fascination. Although some of the roots of astronomy lie in astrology and vice versa, please don’t confuse one of them with the other, because the latter is not a creation of democratic logic, but of hierarchic dominance and controle.

Philosophy was born with our self-consciousness. The lack of techniques and instruments made some of our ancestors impatient in finding the truth methodologically and drove people to self-creation of unphilosophical answers in an archaic society of dogmatic religion. To get order into archaism, hierarchy was key to civilization.

The Greeks…, yes, but why is it the cradle of our civilization? Not only because of the invention of democracy, but because of its power to understand the truth, from which science was born and "re-born" in the "Renaissance".

As a translator you are master of information. And a great master of information knows a lot of languages. Not only spoken languages like English, French, Dutch, Chinese, but also computer languages and the language of the Cosmos: maths and physics.

Elements of Chinese history predicting the future through philosophical books from the past, like “the Book of Change”, is like a magical story telling legend. But legends are born from truths and events. What is the link, rather than the difference, between philosophy, astrology, religion and science: our existence.

I am not here to tell you the story of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Lemaitre, Hubble, Gamov, Alan Guth, and neither of Neil Armstrong. Rather their link with astronomers like Zhang Heng, Guo Shoujing, Verbist and present day Chinese heroes like Yang Liwei. Let’s find out about the link between Chinese philosophy and the theory of the Big Bang, the egg of Pan Ku and the primitive atom, the Chinese armillary spheres and modern telescopes, etc.

The Chinese inventions we know of are: paper, printing, compass and gunpowder. They have let us into space. If you think about it long enough, you can see it. Orientation, recording and explosions are important things for nowadays space exploring. From armillary spheres to the Hubble telescope, looking back further into space, further into the past: the cradle of existence.

Dark energy versus gravity is a scientific discovery that is undeniably linked to the ultimate Chinese philosophical trademark of Yin and Yang. Not Black versus White, but the harmony of two forces like gravity and fuel of a star. Making us understand that black ink on white paper or white ink on black paper is a harmony of existence, of information. That the atomic and magnetic forces are a tango of "+" and  "-", like virtual existence is made up of "0" and "1". It might be the key to the knowledge of our existence and the guideline for keeping it glowing as our way of life.

This couple forming harmony can be found in nature and in many other Chinese trademarks; e.g. kungfu, Confucianism, etc. My experience through life testing results made me understand that the language of the Cosmos can be found in martial arts, astronomy and philosophy through the application of the Egg of Pan Ku, as I like to call it: the "And then there was light" phenomenon, for some it might be like "enlightenment" for our way of life.