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Metamorphosis

Kai — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:20:14 +0000

This happened quite a long time ago, back when I was in primary school, naïve and innocent. So I had a large gash across my right thumb, but right now looking back I'm not sure why and how I got it. It was quite a deep wound, splitting apart the epidermis like a crevasse cutting across a cliff. Blood oozed out constantly, and I needed some heavy bandaging. It wasn't at any rate more painful than a muscle cramp, but I began to worry about something else rather.

I was going overseas soon, and being the naïve and innocent boy I was, I worried about going through the passport immigration thumb-print scans. I was worried that my fingerprint would be in a mess and the system would not recognise it. So when the day came, my wound was fully healed, but yet there was a scar there. The scar could potentially jeopardise everything, including my identity! So I went through the scans with my heart thumping fast - and oh! I managed to go through. The computer read my fingerprint as if nothing happened - it couldn't read the scar.

I stared in wonder at my scarred thumb. There was indeed a scar - but more to it. Beneath the scar, the impressions of friction ridges actually grew back to what it used to be, and indirectly identifying me as myself. I eked out a smirk and marched on.

Human biology works wonders. No matter what, our cells are so adaptable to changes. It is a part of human evolution that keeps us alive. Certain diseases we can grow immune to, certain defects to our biology we can outgrow, certain sicknesses we can cure ourselves without the help of drugs and medicine. Homeostasis and immunity are examples of the gifts from God that keep us alive and thriving in this world.

Like my case, even though I temporarily lost my fingerprint - and my identity - the cells grew back to their original alignment. They formed the friction ridges (raised portions of the epidermis) based on the DNA code message in my body, which in turn, replicated my fingerprint.

It is a beautiful part of human science we must appreciate. Protect your health. Love your body!

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Creation or Evolution?

Kai — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:35:00 +0000

A common controversial question. We, humans, were created or evolved? Well, all religions believe in creation, but scientific explanations proves otherwise. Scientists believe we were evolved, as all living organisms do. In this case, both theories of creation and evolution cannot be totally proved correct.

Most people, who are faithful in God, believes God created us. Out of nothing. There is, however, no living proof of this, thus, inacceptable worldwide. All you need is to believe it.

Somehow more acceptable, yet controversial theory is evolution. The theory suggests all living things are related. From a single cell, to a microscopic organism, to a fish, to a reptile, to mammals, to apes and finally to humans.

The arguable fact of creation or evolution is currently a sensitive issue. Hence, evolution is never mentioned in science or history books, to avoid causing an uproar of fundamentalists.

Were we created or evolved?

Apparently, we might never find out...

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The Truth

Kai — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Ever since mankind existed on Earth, questions began popping out of every single human. How did we come here? How was Earth formed? How was the unvierse formed? How? How? How? Now advanced physics knowledge can end that conspiracy and mysteries.

They're trying to prove the Big Bang. More or less, recreate it.

The brightest brains and minds of the world are gathered at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Geneva, Switzerland to solve the mystery. First they needed to create a bang, a cataclysmic explosion known as the Big Bang, proposed by Edwin Hubble. How?

A circular tube, buried hundred meters underground, is the key to it. The ring is 27 km in circumference and 8km in diameter. The large ring stretches into France and back into CERN which is the largest physics lab in the world.

What they're gonna do, is to vacuum the tube. It'll soon become ice cold. Then physicists will fire a particle in the tube. Once this is done, electromagnets surrounding the tube will switch on and off, thus moving the particle. Another one will be fired in the opposite direction. It will take some time for the particle to be fully charged to the speed of light, up to 288,000 km per second, which is circulating the ring 11,000 times per second.

By the time it moves at lightspeed, the particle gathers a lot of energy. So does the other one. With sufficient energy the physicists will collide the two particles at lightspeed. It will be an epic blast. The theory E=mc² is applicable here. Here's an explanation how...

"If a force is applied to an object in the direction of motion, the object gains momentum. It also gains energy because the force is doing work. But an object cannot be accelerated to the speed of light, regardless of how much energy it absorbs. Its momentum and energy continue to increase, but its speed approaches a constant value--- the speed of light. This means that in relativity the momentum of an object cannot be a constant times the velocity, nor is the kinetic energy given by ½mv²."

- wikipedia

But there are worries of course. Certain physicists disagree with this crazy experiment, insisting that it is too risky. They proposed that the experiment might result in the creation of black holes within the ground, hence causing the Earth to implode.

Whatever it is, we are hungry for the truth.

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Miracle for the Blind

Kai — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:29:00 +0000

Ever wondered if you were blind? How would it feel? The world has totally no visual effects as well as colour to spark your life. Although eye transplants have already existed in technology, you will definitely not expect what will come next.

A Bionic Eye will be expected to be invented by 2020. Researchers in The University of New South Wales, Sydney are working on creating the first bionic eye as a cure to replace the unfortunate blind people for a chance to see the world through bio-mechanical eyes.

This team of ambitious researchers are determined to combine their in-depth knowledge of engineering, medicine and biology to create the first bionic eye. Already ten years in the making behind the labs and closed doors, they have manufactured a neuro-stimulation chip to be placed within the tiny bionic eye. Its structure is so complex it took 3 PhD students to work on for six months. And that little chip is the magic of it, place on the retina of a fractured eye, the brain will interpret the stimulations as images.

Such an amazing ambition, followed by tonnes of hard work and research can bring this new innovation to life, to reality! Hail the power of science!

Give this team a salute and hope they make it till the end!

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The Future (Part 1)

Kai — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:26:00 +0000

Is this what seems to be the future?

Global warming, ozone layer thinning, inflation of food, price of fuel rocketing sky high.
Is this how we should live?

According to what I have experienced while far away in my dreams a couple of days ago, there is a way to rectify all these. As a person who thinks about the world, about GLOBAL CRISES, I had a glance to the future. A peek at what is to come, and utilise that vision for some good use - blogging, as this would spread the word to the world that is the internet.

The future is grave and hazardous to mankind and all the species living on Earth. The sources of petroleum will fall, and within 10 years, 90% of oil will lie in Middle Eastern nations. Don't worry about Americans invading them, by then the price is super high, and no one will dare to purchase them anymore. And within 20 years, petroleum will be wiped off the face of the Earth. But that will not happen, as people will stop buying them.

To combat the need for energy, bio-energy sources should be widely used. These include biomass and biofuel. Biomass, is the use of biological waste products, to provide as a medium for combustion, thus producing energy. Biofuel is the use of cooking oil to generate energy. Biofuel has not been announced usable yet so don't try pouring some of your olive oil into the car. =)

Though biofuel and biomass produce air pollutants, they are still the top choices to replace petroleum oil as the primary source of energy. Products like catalytic converters and electrostatic precipitators can be used to reduce the air pollutants. The main question: why bio-energy? Because, they are plentiful, produce tonnes of energy and are renewable.

If this were to go down to the wire, Malaysia would be grinning. We have a large supply of oil palm biofuel reserves waiting to burst. If Malaysia were to import the precious fuel to the world, this country would be rich. So far, only tropical nations like Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil can breed this prodigies. That would result in war, just like what is happening to the Middle East now. Too much oil, humans fight. Too little oil, humans fight too.

Biotechnology is the answer to this problem. As you might want to know, biotech plays a big role in maintaining the ecosystems of tomorrow. Biotech is basically playing the role of God, manipulating genes, creating new organisms from scratch. Biotech can possibly alter the genes within the oil palm to allow it to grow in other countries. That will stop war, stop the fight for petrol and solve almost everything mankind is facing at this hour.

Ahh yes, the food crisis. I bet, humans just have to reduce their megalomaniacal thirst of reproduction. Keep the status quo, humans develop less land, consume less food. This would counter the food crisis. If only people were to change their mentality. I guess, there's no other way to stop the inflation of food.

Perhaps, biotech can solve the food crisis. Who knows?

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