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September 26, 2010 at 10:58 pm #1229328
@p0ly 399624 wrote:
100% scentific fact is a religious argument type thing i thought!! They thought the moon came from the ocean!! THE BIBLES TRUE, SCIENCE IS WRONG.
who thought the moon came from the ocean? isnt that a Dr Who story?
September 26, 2010 at 11:08 pm #1229309Dunno heard it was taught somewhere, i may be wrong but i remember a Dawkin’s interview which said this.
September 26, 2010 at 11:09 pm #1229329@p0ly 399628 wrote:
Dunno heard it was taught somewhere, i may be wrong but i remember a Dawkin’s interview which said this.
oh you might well be right it does ring a bell, religion really does stick two fingers up to reason.
September 26, 2010 at 11:18 pm #1229266Anonymous
Hi Process ,
No i get your point science theory is worked out by calculations and formulars and isnt just myth or guess work . So yes science at a theory stage is still guess work to a point but more probable . Whilst Religion was just the opposite …..burning witches etc , the sun revolves round the earth etc . Science has advanced the world soo much , just look at the internet here we are . So respect to science 🙂regards
MungoSeptember 27, 2010 at 8:14 am #1229289Wormholes are a very crazy concept mate. I was actually lucky enough to see Hawking give a lecture at Cal Tech about a year ago, and the concepts that get brought up are just mind blowing. All fact and physics kind of go out the window in space, while they are also the only thing we can use to calculate anything out there. Helluva conundrum!
September 27, 2010 at 8:24 am #1229318LHC is back online already and doing high energy collisions, already beaten the world record for energy in a collision by a long way.
Speculating about new universes forming in black holes is pretty much just guess work based around our ignorance of these enigmas. There is some small evidence hinting of a multiverse (see dark flow) but it implies ‘pocket universes’ budding off an in infinite inflation, not universes forming every time a black hole is created.
September 27, 2010 at 3:19 pm #1229267@DaftFader 399547 wrote:
lol yeah that’s the thing tho .. all these theorys .. are exactly that .. just theorys
I hate that about science. I’m learning all 3 at college and it’s like :@ next year, i’m gonna get told this is all wrong!
As well as the fact that it takes atleast 10-20yrs to get onto an a-level syllabus, which means what we learn is quite a while behind modern science.
September 27, 2010 at 3:30 pm #1229319You wont get told it’s wrong as such, more that the model explained to you is greatly over-simplified, and you’ll have to get stuck into a more complicated explanation of the same thing.
September 27, 2010 at 3:43 pm #1229268Oh, we get that too. A few years ago, we got told a really simple electron structure for atoms and now they’re like “everything we told you was wrong, it’s like this..”.
But potentially, what we’re getting taught now could be proved compeltely wrong in a few years. Especially in biology, alot of the things we’re taught, we’re told not to take them as certain as scientists only have a loose idea about certain things.September 27, 2010 at 4:42 pm #1229320depends on ur subject i guess.. not a lot has changed in the fundamentals of physics since i graduated like 7 years ago, but some other subjects especially medicine are changing all the time
September 27, 2010 at 5:11 pm #1229269ah.. well i’m doing biology, chemistry and physics. did you do physics at university? :O
September 27, 2010 at 5:22 pm #1229321yeah, it was a bitch dont bother, they ruined it all with maths 😉
wishing I carried on with biology.. my real passion is neuroanthropology and psychopharmacology… so gotta study them on my own time ;P
September 27, 2010 at 5:41 pm #1229270:O
you’re my idol. i really want to do physics (astrophysics/something to do with astronomy) at uni but i don’t think i’m good enough, so i set my site on being a chemist instead.biology is quite interesting, especially pharmacology. i dunno how i’d put up with dissecting shit though :S
September 27, 2010 at 6:01 pm #1229322heh im a bit of a lazy fecker really, I’m really interested in stuff but dont want to do that hard work behind it, I just like reading popular science type books =P
Studied at a top university but was surrounded by incredibly bright freaky geeky scientists and decided academia was not for me, now I do a pretty routine job and put all my energy into music and read science books for fun.Physics is tempting because there is so little parrot learning involved (i could sum up my a-level equations on 2 sides of A4) but it becomes mega hard at the top end so dont be fooled by relatively easy grades at A-level.
To be honest it’s hard to do a career in physics cos you’re competing with hawking, only the cream of the crop make any real advancement, however there is endless study to be done in biology and chemistry, my mate has just graduated and already released a paper after discovering a new species of wasp in england..
September 27, 2010 at 6:21 pm #1229271oh hah! physics is anything but easy to me, but i love it so i’m GOING to get a good grade. i hope. ‘cos i try. but you’re right.. i’m pretty sure i’d be more valuable as a chemist because i’m better at it. i just love the stars and the sky so much.
hmm and yeah, in physics, there are so many clever people :O and i don’t even know the x-axis from the y-axis (well i do now :3 i found out today). i feel like i can’t even compete. everytime i walk in the room, they’re like “wow, she’s still here..” cos they think i’m gonna drop out.
were you interested in biology before uni? why didn’t you take it then?
September 28, 2010 at 7:41 am #1229323I loved biology but it was hard work.. huge amounts of information to learn including latin names.. and at degree level there’s a lot of essay writing.. i HATE essays, if u cant double underline the answer it’s too long in my opinion 😛
September 28, 2010 at 4:01 pm #1229272yeah, i think that’s the thing with biology. and often, parts have more than one name and tonnes of functions and it just gets confusing. but it’s less of a mindfuck than physics, it’s all easy concepts to understand.
September 28, 2010 at 4:03 pm #1229310Quantum mechanics, sus that one out.
September 28, 2010 at 4:12 pm #1229273Ahh quantum mechanics is a breeze (:
What I don’t get is vectors and stuff that is really pointless maths, not physics.September 28, 2010 at 4:22 pm #1229311A breeze at a low level for top scientist trying to learn more is a mystery.
September 28, 2010 at 4:28 pm #1229274yeah, but you could say the same for everything to do with maths, science, history.. etc. the basic idea of quantum mechanics isn’t as hard as everyone thinks it is.
September 28, 2010 at 4:41 pm #1229275Hi all,
My job we have to know abit about the human body but not that much and certainly not latin names . There is this guy at work though , ex-paramedic who can name them , love talking to him as he can explain in better detail why we do certain a thing in a certain way . I always think just knowing how to do something is fine but its even better to know why its done that way . Heres one of the names that sticks with me ‘ the bundle of hiss ‘ i cant think why that sticks in my mind lol . Its a part of the heart at the bottom of it that sends signals across the heart , gives you the rythme of your heart beat . I always liked biology , other than chemistry its more hands on . Physics is just maths to me and when it comes to maths im just a bundle of piss !!!!regards
MungoSeptember 28, 2010 at 4:48 pm #1229303@mungo1972 399908 wrote:
Hi all,
My job we have to know abit about the human body but not that much and certainly not latin names . There is this guy at work though , ex-paramedic who can name them , love talking to him as he can explain in better detail why we do certain a thing in a certain way . I always think just knowing how to do something is fine but its even better to know why its done that way . Heres one of the names that sticks with me ‘ the bundle of hiss ‘ i cant think why that sticks in my mind lol . Its a part of the heart at the bottom of it that sends signals across the heart , gives you the rythme of your heart beat . I always liked biology , other than chemistry its more hands on . Physics is just maths to me and when it comes to maths im just a bundle of piss !!!!regards
MungoThey belive that this part of the heart can carry memories as well as the brain!
People who have heart transplants sometimes report suddenly liking diferant things that they hated b4 … and it allways seems to coinside with what the donor used to be into.
:crazy:
September 28, 2010 at 4:53 pm #1229276No way Daftfader is that true or are you pulling my bundle of piss ?
September 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm #1229304Na it’s true man. It’s a mass bundle of nerves that has similer propaties to some of the brain and can somewhat act independantly of it iirc.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Cellular-Memories-in-Organ-Transplant-Recipients
http://cardiovascres.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/3/469.full
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