SCIENCE TOPIC - Ask here what you don't know!

[skitee 555]

I disagree. That would be going against the whole concept of science. Science is only what we can measure and feel in this world.

 

Definition of science from Oxford dictionary: "The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment"

 

From wikipedia: "Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

 

From Collins: "the systematic study of the nature and behaviour of the material and physical universe, based on observation, experiment, and measurement, and the formulation of laws to describe these facts in general terms"

 

To sum up: Science is what we can measure with experiments in this physical world. Anything else is not science. All those questions were philosophical.

Edited November 15, 2012 by skitee

[Guest]

You quoted only what was usefull for your argument. You missed to quote the word "observation".

Observation is something personal, and after an observation we can define formulas and related.

Observation is not scientific, but is something made in a scientific manner, with the scientific method, so you will define a part of the science definition "not scientific" :)

 

Anyways, believe me, when you had studied for more than 5 years: Biology, Chemistry, Italian, English, Religion, Philosophy, Physics, Maths, History and Historical Geography, you won't think anymore that science is a poor and simple cooperation of "formulas and related".

If you repeat what you said to my Biology professor he will say: your definition is totally correct, but you can't set limits to science, science has no limits and is not limited to poor counts.

 

When you will be studying cells evolutions, body parts and related at a really high level, you will see that you will find yourself asking: why this thing came this way and not in another way? Why this happen and not this?

 

When I firstly saw a cell, 5 years ago (I was 13) I thought that it was something strange, that it was like that only 'cause something made it.

When I saw a cell today, in my biology lab, after 5 hard years of studying, I thought: this coulb be a simple cell, that may evolve in another kind of cell in a near future and start a new bacteria or a new living form. I thought that it was there 'cause a huge and complex group of facts took it there.

Those above weren't formulas.

 

I ask you one thing, Skit. Don't reduce science in a poor and meanless group of counts and formulas, science is not only that.

Edited November 15, 2012 by Issho_Fujitora

[skitee 555]

Show me a definition of science which says that science is not limited by formulas and the physical universe. Science is the study of the physical universe. That's what science is. I enjoy science, it's one of my favourite subjects. It's not poor or simple. But science is the study of this physical universe. In the same way that English is the study of the English language. Or History being the study of historical events. Science is the study of the physical universe.

 

When I firstly saw a cell, 5 years ago (I was 13) I thought that it was something strange, that it was like that only 'cause something made it.

When I saw a cell today, in my biology lab, after 5 hard years of studying, I thought: this coulb be a simple cell, that may evolve in another kind of cell in a near future and start a new bacteria or a new living form. I thought that it was there 'cause a huge and complex group of facts took it there.

Those above weren't formulas.

 

No, they weren't formulas. I agree. But they were limited by the forces of the physical universe. Science is the study of this physical universe, what we can feel, what we can sense, what is bound by the formulas that operate in this universe. Other subjects are just as interesting. But they aren't science.

 

When you will be studying cells evolutions, body parts and related at a really high level, you will see that you will find yourself asking: why this thing came this way and not in another way? Why this happen and not this?

When you study English, you read authors and you think "When did this author live? What was the culture like? What important events happened then?". You study it, and you are interested in it. But what you are studying is history, not English. In the same way, just because you get interested in something because of science doesn't make that science.

Edited November 15, 2012 by skitee

[Guest]

Well, I have to agree at this point. As said before, your definition are correct.

I just said the fact that this was not a limited-to-science topic, but an open-subject one :)

 

(Even if it's called science topic, the OP says: ask here what you don't know, so about every subject)

 

Anyways, I like the way you think, Skit. :)

[CooperO 7,956]

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my answer made the assumption that the object was falling at an even pace, if you bring in to the equation the object starts from rest is released then it falls you have to bring in acceleration and there fore the gradual increase in speed over that distance I am sure would mean it eventually would hit the ground at 15m/ps

 

The question was at which speed it moved at 20 meters above the ground. If the question would be at which speed the object would touch the ground I also could understand those 15m/s.

 

@skitee, you managed to get three philosophy questions out of all the questions asked here, I don't call that a majority. (The two questions by splitterpoint are the same, and therefore counted as one)

[Alklines 1,751]

prove that humans evolved from chimpanzees

[CooperO 7,956]

prove that humans evolved from chimpanzees

They didn't, as I stated in an earlier post.

[LiquidGold 1,370]

They didn't, as I stated in an earlier post.

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maybe he is confusing pre simmions with fully evolved primates...if you go back far enough we (humans) share 96% of the same DNA as a blade of grass thanks to the primordial gloop and photosynthathis of single celled animals and plants.. if you go back further we are made from carbon atom released from the big bang so we share the same billions of years old building blocks.. I guess time and relative dimentions in space are just that...relative

[LiquidGold 1,370]

Here's something hard

 

What is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

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the trade name for it is DDT it is a persistent organic pollutant and was commonly used to kill insects

[Alklines 1,751]

its so easy these days^, just google it :lol:

[CooperO 7,956]

Yes Google is amazing, but some people actually know what dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is, without having Google it..

Edited November 16, 2012 by CooperO

[Guest]

Yes Google is amazing, but some people actually know what dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is, without having Google it..

I do :D

[splitterpoint 10,986]

what would happen if you trow (concentrated) sulfuric acid on a diamond?

Edited November 16, 2012 by splitterpoint

[chiyaProgramer 1]

what would happen if you trow (concentrated) sulfuric acid on a diamant?

diamond ?

[splitterpoint 10,986]

yes that; I'm dutch... oops.

[chiyaProgramer 1]

correct me if i am wrong , diamond is a crystal .. may be acid will just corrode the outer layer and remove shine .. I have no knowledge of chemistry

[splitterpoint 10,986]

what does the OP say about this? :)

[chiyaProgramer 1]

what does the OP say about this? :)

who is OP

[splitterpoint 10,986]

who is OP

 

OP= original poster= barbafenner89

[Guest]

I'm a bit busy right now, I will reply soon. :)

Edited November 16, 2012 by Issho_Fujitora

[splitterpoint 10,986]

No hurries man. ^_^

after all, it's friday.

Edited November 16, 2012 by splitterpoint

[LiquidGold 1,370]

what would happen if you trow (concentrated) sulfuric acid on a diamond?

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I am not sure what would happen to the diamond it really depends on the molar of the acid if it was 10 molar I am sure the diamond would just dissolve like if you drop a tooth in a well known brand of cola. Diamonds are not forever however if you heat them they burn, if you wish to see that there is a cool tube you can watch it if you just google burning diamonds

Edited November 16, 2012 by LiquidGold

[ARENO-1998 549]

Is it true that the Earth's internell core contains metal?

[splitterpoint 10,986]

Yes; from what I know the earth core excist of nickel.

 

3333 posts.

Edited November 16, 2012 by splitterpoint

[2strong4u_is_beast_1 0]

^Congratz