The Science of Life

All physical scientists, regardless of the field of study (both on the experimental side and on the theory side), rely upon past experiments.  Regardless of how purely theoretical the work of any particular scientist tends to be, the foundation of the theoretical work is solidified in experiment.  I challenge you to present a case where this is not the case which is not philosophy.  Think very carefully about and thoroughly background check any example you come up with before being set in presenting the example; chances are phenomenal (100%, actually) that either it is based on experiment or is philosophy. Since I am a student of science, I wish to understand experiment construction, running, and replication.  I also wish to have everybody else understand the process of experimenting and why it is so important to the process of science. First, we need to understand why experiments are performed.  Everything about any given experiment follows from the r...

I have had insufficient time to write a full-blown blog this week-end, so I will leave you with a poem. It seems appropriate, since this is a science poem on a science blog, and it ties in with next weeks blog topic, which is the interconnectivity of two particular branches of sciences. I hope you enjoy this. Two Two years. Two groups. One constant. The only person in either group who isn’t going for the “American Dream”, whose primary goal does not involve retiring wealthy. The only one who never did understand this whole war between them, at any level much less this one, seeing as how this peace will save humanity time and time and time again. Two years. Two fields of science . The only constant is the only poet. The only one of either group that realizes that science, too, is a kind of art. After all, Mother Nature is the most intrinsic, the fullest, and best poet in the...