Importance of Learning Science
Does science remind you of your school days, where there used be practicals, chemicals, digestive system, circuits, weird names, inventions, discoveries and what not. And finally to know what you have absorbed, the exams! Does it still haunt you? Science is a subject liked by very few in school, however, the importance of which is massive. Science is not a subject you study only in school, in fact you study it and experience it everyday. Look at things around, all of them have a scientific mechanism driving them. It wouldn’t have been possible for you to even read this article without the advancement of science. A simple activity of an apple falling from a tree also involved a deep science behind it, of course we call it gravitational force, now. Learning and understanding the importance of the various branches of science is a continuous process and not just restricted to textbooks and practicals. What follows next is a detailed discussion about what understanding science does to develop oneself and his country at large.
Importance of Learning Science
Technological Advancement
The technological development we experience is mainly due to the scientific theories involved in them. Imagine your life without the Internet, cell phones, television, cars and the various other machines that have become a part and parcel of your life, seems difficult, isn’t it? It is only after learning and understanding the various science theories that development of these machines have been possible. The more deeper you go to study science, the more complex technologies you dig and employ them in making gadgets and machines, which only make our life way more comfortable and easier. Read the rest of this entry »
Relation Between Metaphysics and Physics
Physics is what has been defined, disproved and restated through ages of human research of all things around us, the keyword being around. People concur or debate over everything under, inside and far away from the Sun. They will deduce theorems and when found logical, term them as axioms. Then every once in a while, there comes along a thought or a phenomenon previously unaccounted for. It tinkers with the shackles with which we bind all happenings we know and understand. A classic example would be the statement on the earth being flat, later being evidently disproved and concluded with the new statement that the earth is indeed, round. There are so many similar comments and theories that have been cemented as fact, waiting for a ‘spirited’ sprite to set release them, only to have a new one to be found out and bound down.
The Relationship Between Physics and Metaphysics
Understanding Metaphysics
When put in paradigm, physics is the understanding of what we see, while metaphysics is the attempt to understand what we don’t. Physics tells you the ‘How’ of all that you see around you. Metaphysics deals with the ‘Why’ of all things, around you and within you. Metaphysics aims to provide the definitive link between the apparent and the spiritual, without making concepts overly religious. Physics will define to the fullest, what can be observed and changed; anything beyond the observable, doesn’t exist. The answer to the exactness of metaphysics is not describable, but can be understood from the classic question: “If a tree falls deep within a forest with no one around, does it still make a sound?”. Whenever something happens within our surrounding, we may notice it with our senses. But when something happens outside this circle of knowledge, do we, or should we, believe that it has indeed happened? Now, if this occurrence from the unknown somehow affects the state of something within our circle of knowledge, how can we explain the chain of events? It is this that metaphysics wants to solve. So, while physics rules the plane of all known, physically realized phenomenon, metaphysics and all its branches sew together the universe of obscure and the phenomenon unexplained by physics. Physicist Stephen Hawking, who yearns to be in the know, said, “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all”. A point to be noted here is that metaphysics, or even ontology (the study of ‘being’) is not to be related or confused with the deviant sciences like occultism (the study of ‘Forbidden knowledge’) or esotericism (the study of alternative or secretive knowledge). Read the rest of this entry »