Laser is more than a word

Laser is more than a device that emits light it’s an acronym for how it is achieved; Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Lasers emit mostly Coherent light which means light of one particular wavelength conversely light bulbs and our own Sun are not coherent light sources. Lasers also emit light in the [...]

Know what one percent of the world knows

Bill Gates said only that one percent of the world knows about his Internet Explorer shortcut. When typing the URL in the IE address bar hit CTRL+ENTER and .com will be added to the address. It’s not very useful but now you know.
    

Life, Probability and Fractals

What is the probability of life outside of Spaceship Earth, most people will say it is pretty slim. Now more than ever we are finding life in inhospitable places and in  places we have been unable to look previously. We may have even found life in our own solar system. Mars is already showing signs [...]

We start with a point …

This model on building out the dimensions is pretty spectacular. Quantum physics tells that there may be other dimensions but infinity upon infinity sounds more like the model I believe.
Imagining the 10th dimension
    

Quantifying Human Potential

Human potential is not difficult to quantify. We all know those who excel for they are hard to keep hidden. Well then why don’t we all excel? Genetics. There are differences in all of us, some of those differences limit our abilities. However, our greatest asset is our mind.
If the brain were so simple we [...]

Interface, Design and Prototyping

Creating a good design is not easy and it’s not meant to be. It requires prototypes to flesh out all the bugs. What makes a good design? Something performs above standard and that has an interface that is intuitive and simple. Any hammer can drive a nail, some do it better than others. And that [...]

Fermi Paradox revisited

I’ve talked about this before but never on kikbot.org, it’s time I put it on record.
Wikipedia: Fermi Paradox
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.
Well it seems we must not be as [...]