THINGS EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SCIENCE
Added on: 21st Jul 2016
REFLEXES
They don’t use any brain activity. Even brain dead people
have them. This is because they originate in nerve
centres found in the spine.
LANGUAGES
This isn’t hard science, but linguistics falls under the science
umbrella nonetheless. Whether it is the Queen’s English or
a rural dialect from the deep south, both languages have
an equally complex grammar/syntax. In fact, as soon as a
language evolves passed being a dialect, the only thing
separating it from longer standing languages is
vocabulary, and that can easily be assimilated.
LAWS VERSUS THEORIES
In simple terms, a law is what something does. It is observable
and demonstrable. A theory is why something happens.
It is testable and if it fails any test, it is discarded.
ALCOHOL
It doesn’t make you warmer. It only causes more blood flow
to be directed towards your skin (which makes you feel warmer)
while in reality it cools down your internal temperature.
Don’t be fooled by this one. People have lost their lives,
or at least their frostbitten appendages.
GMO’S
Almost all the food you eat (if not all of it) has been genetically
modified in some way. In fact, millions of people would have
died in the last several decades were it not for GMO’s.
TIME
It is not the same everywhere. Since space and time are both
aspects of the same thing, the faster you move through space,
the slower you move through time. This means that a clock on
the space shuttle would be a few nanoseconds behind a
clock that stayed on Earth upon the space shuttle’s re-entry.
In fact, if it weren’t for the Theory of Relativity, many things,
including GPS would not function as well as they do right now.
QUANTUM MECHANICS
There are some pretty weird things that happen at a
quantum level. In fact, the regular laws of physics
break down and get a little blurry.
SCIENCE IS A PROCESS
It is not a collection of facts. This goes along with the idea
that scientific knowledge changes over time.
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