Monday 19 October 2015


What happens when a mad scientist teams up with Science Epic?

We go on adventure to Alpha Centauri to find out.



More videos coming out soon.

Wednesday 12 August 2015

Hey guys, new video out. Its dripping in awesome sauce!


Tune in, rate, comment, subscribe and I will see you next time.

Sincerely,
Afiq Abdul Hamid

Tuesday 28 July 2015

A person who looked like he had spent years in a Vietnam POW camp asked me today, 3 questions.

Who am I?

I am SonOfTerra92. On the internet I am SonOfTerra92. Scientist, Explorer, Wanderer.

http://bit.ly/1U3CJbo

http://bit.ly/1SQ5x6F

Where is God?

We are God and God is Us.

What is the truest thing you know?

I know that I am aware of my own mind but I am incapable of being aware of yours. For all I know, you could be a computer program or a hologram. Until I can share a neural link to your brain I will never be able to be truly aware of its existence.


I've been reading a lot of Isaac Asimov recently. Isaac Asimov was a Biochem guy and also a critically acclaimed science fiction writer. His stories would always talk about exploring distant star clusters and human colonists. However he would sometimes consistently write about a subject that is considered by Michio Kaku to be a Class 1 Impossibility. Something that is possible in reality but will take a while for human civilization to work out.

Telepathy and mind communication is a big part of Isaac Asimov's writing. I wonder why a person like Asimov who wrote hard science fiction would harp on telepathy? Perhaps telepathy is an important part of the progress and evolution of human civilization. Perhaps one day one of us will be able to share the collective consciousness of all and all of us can share the collectiveness of One.

Whatever, here is a mind flower.



He talked about meditation. Mediation is a whole load of hoo-ha in my opinion. I do drugs, meditation is just mystical bullshit.

Sunday 26 July 2015

Hello Everyone, I'm a bit of an amateur everyday adventurer. Here are some of my recent expeditions. 

Enjoy =)



On a final note:

The seaside town of Lumut I would say is a pretty awesome place. The entrance of which is surrounded by mountains that give the adventure of going to Pangkor a sense of scale.

The Island however leaves alot to be desired in its level of cleanliness. Imagine Port Dickson plus Langkawi and that's just about it.

Friday 26 June 2015

What new wonders would we create in the future paths that we trail-blaze?
What I mean is that I have modest dreams and ambitions I would like to pursue before I die, I'm not trying to be president or a rockstar or anything like that. I just want to make the world a better place and maybe win a few hearts while i'm at it.

Engineering has been an unnecessary detour. One that I honestly could say I would be better off without.

Au revoir.

Wednesday 24 June 2015

Dur dur dur, I am Science Communicator,,,


I don't think i'm ever gonna stop doing this stuff any time soon.

Thoughts on the Cosmos #3 Escape to the Spirals

When we last left off we were exploring the structure of Spiral galaxies by taking a look at the pieces and parts that make them up that make them up like the central bulge, the main disk where most of the stars are located and the encompassing Galactic Halo

One of the first thing you notice when looking at images of Spiral Galaxies taken by the Hubble or Spitzer Space Telescope are the massive spirals themselves that come in a variety of different twisting shapes and sizes.

The Bright Glowing Arms of Spiral Galaxies represent regions of space dense with gas and dust clouds some as big as 300 light years in diameter that is about the stretch of 20 million times the distance from Earth to the Sun. They are big big clouds of gas and dust in outer space. These clouds are the material that would, given enough time and a little bit of physics, form stars, planetary systems, moons, and given perhaps even more time living organisms like you and me, human beings and all the plants and animals of planet Earth.

The Spiral Arms of a Galaxy represent the beginning of life of much of the Solar System we see today.

Somewhere, somehow it all began in a Spiral Arm.
Curiously enough you wonder why there are Spiral arms in the first place if not for the nerdier half of the human race to use images of the Andromeda Galaxy as Space Porn

Hot Damn, look at those curves!

More than half of all the Galaxies in the Universe are Spiral Galaxies and trust me there are a lot of galaxies out there. So if there is a Grand Designer to the Universe. He, she, or it must really have a thing for spirals.

                The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way that we all know and love exist because of two main forces. The rotation of stuff: stars and Gas clouds around the center of the galaxy and something in physics called standing waves. Think of it in our case as a spiraling shockwave travelling around the center of the galaxy

Like Shockwave from Transformers except more Spiral Shaped and not a Decepticon or made of metal
                The Spiral Arms that are largely shaped and carried by the shockwave travel at a much slower speed than the rotating matter. As the matter catches up to the spiral arms they are caught between the spiral arm shock wave and more matter crashing in behind it.

Think of it as a traffic pileup where much faster cars are crammed in behind a much slower truck. The spiral shockwave represents the slow moving truck (lorry) and all that matter represents the traffic of cars coming in from behind.
It’s this cramming and squeezing of matter trailing the spiral that causes the giant Gas clouds mentioned earlier to heat up and collapse to form stars.

This process I will go through in depth in a later video or you could watch a younger version of me give it a go in my Project Solaris video, Say High to past me guys

Big stars that form 20 times the mass of our sun shine bright and live fast but die young like a swole up body buikder that overdoses on too much juices
RIP Zyzz, RIP Zyzz

So they end up exploding while still inside the spiral producing blast waves that maintain the spiral shockwave and also seeding the Galaxy with the building blocks of life like the carbon in our apple pies the calcium in our teeth and the iron in our blood.

Matter that makes up smaller stars like our sun live long enough to escape the spiral arms and continue their journey as wanderers across the galaxy carrying with them the possibility of new planetary systems and intelligent life, carrying with them a new light among the stars.

This is why I love astronomy because it all comes back to us somehow, the more you look up the more you find your own self. It hits us very slowly at first then all at once to know that the life of The Sun began in a spiral arm and therefore the life of the planet earth and all of its inhabitants are also related. You start to appreciate not just the pictures of Galaxies more but also your own life as part of the wider cosmos.

Sunday 17 May 2015

Diaries of an Aspiring Astrophysicist (DAS Astro) Podcast

Diaries of an Aspiring Astrophysicist Episode 1: The last year has been weird Episode 2: Cosmic Collisions and Gravitational Wa...