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THINGS EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SCIENCE

Added on: 16th Oct 2016

 

SCIENCE IS PART OF WHAT MAKES US HUMAN

Science is a process

In its most basic form, science is applied curiosity.

You look at the world and think to yourself

“why is it that way?”  You then come up with

an idea, you test it and see if your idea passed the test.

If not, you come up with another idea.

This is the scientific method.

 

 

THERE IS NO "OFFICIAL HIGHEST AUTHORITY"

IN SCIENCE

There is no

There is no group of people sitting around dictating the

laws and theories of science. This may sound

elementary to some, but to others, this is critical to

understand. Anybody can go out and try to disprove

scientific theories. In fact, that is what scientists do

every single day. They try their best to disprove

their theories to see if there exists a better one.

 

 

KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Knowledge sharing

As you may have been able to deduce, science is

collaborative. This means that it is the sum of

human knowledge up to a certain point.

 

 

DNA

DNA

All life on Earth encodes the main information about itself

and passes that information down through DNA

 

 

RADIATION

Radiation

Although there is a lot of fear associated with this word,

radiation is ubiquitous and life depends on it. And just

to ease your fears about getting cancer from your

mobile device, let us remind you that your own body

emits more radiation than your mobile phones do.

 

 

NUCLEAR REACTIONS

Nuclear reactions

The type of nuclear reaction occurring in a power station

is very different from the type of nuclear reaction that

occurs in a bomb. So just like with mobile phones, that

fear of a nuclear explosion happening next to your

house isn’t very realistic.

 

 

CHEMICALS

Chemicals

Everything is chemicals, which consist of elements, which

consist of atoms. And 99.99% of atoms are  just empty

space. In fact, the only reason your hand doesn’t go right

through the table is because of these “empty” atoms

repelling each other by way of various forces. And the

reason you can’t see through the table is because those

atoms reflect photons.

 

 

ANALOGUE VS DIGITAL

Analog vs Digital

Digital information is binary. It’s 1’s and 0’s. The real world is

analogue. It’s all light waves, sound waves, etc.

Converting analogue information to digital involves

some loss of information but it is worth it because

digital data is easier to store.

 


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