On monday, I went to an interesting (optional) lecture on how science is not as fundamentalist as people may think. Science changes all the time, and if you really think about it, it does: how many times even in just my lifetime (18 years) has something that was once thought solid in science change? I mean, new things get discovered all the time... I hope I can change some rules of science as my life progresses as well. It would be fun.
Anyway! some interesting things I learned from the lecture! Top-Down, Down-Top, and Same level theory!
Down-Top Theory: A chemistry experiment goes wrong because there was excess NaOH in the HCl solution, causing the phenopherephelin (sp? the pink thing) to react and cause a bright pink color and thus adjusting the calculations in the final result.
Same Level Theory: A chemisty experiment goes wrong because the student was sleeping and forgot to turn off the titration.
Top-Down Theory: A chemistry experiment goes wrong because the authorities were not strict enough in enforcing the the lab directors to oversee the students, therefore blaming the school for it's unappropriate distribution of it's tution earnings on the school administration. WE SHOULD OVERTHROW THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS!!!
Ok, that was fun.
also, there are four different dimensions (is that right?) in this world:
Materialistic Dimension: Particles and actual, tangible objects.
Socialistic Dimension: Human interaction, social status, generally human emotions goes here too
Orderal Dimension: Laws of Physics and "this is supposed to happen" goes here.
Mathematical Dimension: calculations, numbers and adding them to the laws above, and any other math you've learned in math class goes here
I found these multiple layers (That's a better word!) of the world to be really interesting.
I look look forward to a more variable science foundation in the future. :D