EssaysEssay · personal view
Where to start in GOD PLAYS DICE if you are new to cosmology
A simple reading guide to the questions, measurements and scientific limits in GOD PLAYS DICE, Volume One.
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Essays by Ricardo Maldonado.
Personal views on science, belief and a shared life. Opinion, labeled as opinion.
Personal reflections from the author on science, belief and a shared human life.
EssaysEssay · personal view
World Space Week 2026: What question would you take into space?
World Space Week 2026 celebrates Rocket Revolution. Ricardo Maldonado asks how curiosity about cosmic origins connects to his unproved HD-Blast hypothesis.
HD-Blast ResearchEssay · personal view
Do physical units make a model’s prediction testable?
A model needs a justified connection between its numbers and a physical measurement. Units are one part of that explanation.
EssaysEssay · personal view
How can I read a science book when I disagree with its author?
A short reading exercise separates understanding a proposal from accepting it, while keeping your unresolved questions visible.
HD-Blast ResearchEssay · personal view
Is a picture of a scientific idea evidence?
A caption should tell us whether we are looking at observations, a model, a diagram or an illustration—and what each can establish.
HD-Blast ResearchEssay · personal view
Does reproducing a calculation prove a scientific idea?
Repeating the steps can check a calculation. Deciding what it tells us about nature takes further work.
EssaysEssay · personal view
Do you need a physics degree to read GOD PLAYS DICE?
You can follow a question about the universe without a physics degree—or a promise to agree with the author’s hypothesis.
HD-Blast ResearchEssay · personal view
What does falsifiable mean? A fair test for HD-Blast
Falsifiable means evidence could count against a specific claim. A simple guide to fair tests, uncertainty and the unproved HD-Blast hypothesis.
Extraordinary ClaimsEssay · personal view
Who Built the Pyramids? We Did
The Great Pyramid does not become less astonishing when we remove aliens from the story. It becomes more astonishing, because the evidence points to human planning, labor, care, and accumulated skill.
OriginsEssay · personal view
Who Are We, Really?
To another intelligence, we might not be “humans” at all, but one highly social species of living organism—technologically remarkable, biologically related to the rest of life, and still learning what consciousness means.
OriginsEssay · personal view
What Came Before the Big Bang? My Best Guess So Far
The Big Bang explains an early hot, dense universe. It may not be the first page of reality. Here is my best current hypothesis—and the evidence that would have to judge it.
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
What a Better Life Really Means
A better life needs more than a bigger paycheck. It needs safety, honest motives, healthy boundaries, time with people we love, and enough balance to notice that we are living it.
Life in the UniverseEssay · personal view
We Are Already an Advanced Civilization
We keep imagining advanced civilizations as someone else, somewhere else. From the eyes of our ancestors—or another species—the advanced civilization may already be us.
Mind & MortalityEssay · personal view
The Privilege of Having Existed
Science can study the edge of death, but not promise what lies beyond it. Gratitude for having existed may not erase fear, but it can change its shape.
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
The Day I Was Born Again
Becoming a father did not answer my questions about life. It changed which answers mattered most.
Life in the UniverseEssay · personal view
The Questions I Would Ask an Alien
If I ever met a visitor from another world, I would skip the small talk. I would ask what its civilization knows about beginnings—and how it knows.
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
Peace Starts Closer to Home
World peace may be beyond one person’s control. Reconciliation, accountability, and one honest conversation are not.
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
Parents, Teenagers, and the Pull of the Forbidden
A new baby can strain a couple. A teenager can test a family. In both seasons, love needs more than good intentions: it needs patience, boundaries, and time.
The UniverseEssay · personal view
Night Is Just Earth’s Shadow, and We Are Stardust
Two ordinary truths—the turning of Earth and the atoms inside our bodies—can make the sky feel much closer than it did before.
God & BeliefEssay · personal view
What Is My Religion? Not Knowing
Where and when we are born shapes what we believe. That is why the most honest answer I can give about my own religion is not certainty, but “I don’t know.”
EssaysEssay · personal view
If It Weren’t for Progress
The freedoms we inherit were purchased by people who challenged authority, survived persecution, and widened the circle of human dignity. Progress is real—but never automatic.
EssaysEssay · personal view
Four Decades of Questions
At forty, I looked back at a science book, a church, three magazines, several reinventions, and a daughter—and found the same question running through all of them: what should I do with the life I was given?
EssaysEssay · personal view
Teach Us How to Think: Education, Not Indoctrination
The answer to a closed mind is not a different doctrine. It is an education that teaches us how to examine claims, change our minds, and keep asking.
God & BeliefEssay · personal view
Does the Devil Exist? The Answer Depends on You
Whether the devil is understood as a being, a symbol, or a name for our worst impulses, one question remains: what responsibility belongs to us?
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
Does Happiness Exist?
Maybe happiness is real as a feeling, but impossible as a permanent destination. What if a better goal is gratitude for the brief privilege of being alive?
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
The Legacy We Leave in Words
Ricardo Maldonado’s writing asks whether success can be measured by what we share rather than what we accumulate.
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
What If Living Is Enough?
An adaptation of Ricardo Maldonado’s unfinished reflection on happiness, attention, and the ordinary gift of being alive.
God & BeliefEssay · personal view
The Courage to Say “I Don’t Know”
An editorial adaptation of Ricardo Maldonado’s reflection on belief, humility, and the freedom to keep asking.
EssaysEssay · personal view
Before We Are Nations, We Are Life
A cosmic case for human dignity. Before we are nations, we are life. Before we inherit a border, we inherit a planet.