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The Fabric of The Cosmos

In “The Fabric of The Cosmos”, by Brian Greene, I was able to understand different concepts that I have never explored or even thought about. Through the chapter, I understood that some of the new findings in physics have demonstrated that space and time are the most important things in reality. Something else I learned was that when new discoveries are found, it forces us to rethink the way we think of space. Overall, the chapter was able to expand my knowledge on the different ways the we think. This has made me a better physics student because it has demonstrated to me the ways that physics can be changed due to the new finds that occur around the world. It shows how one thing changes and cause for people to have new mindset of the concepts that we knew once and make space for a higher level of thinking. Another concept that I was able to understand sometimes they are contradicted no matter how logical it may seem at first, there will always be people that can and will disprove. These different concept expand the think of others and myself as some of these things aren’t taught and are seem at a higher level for those skilled. This makes us have a higher thinking of things that we think that we know and make it seem as it has changed. Overall, the chapter challenges and makes us understand different things.  

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The Dancing Wu Li Masters

In “The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics”, by Gary Zukav, there was many aspects of how different nonliving things/living things can be considered to be existing within the physics world. This is one of things that amazed me from reading the text and understanding the ideas that were spoken about. When I think about physics, I mostly think about things/person(s) in motion or doing a specific movement that has an exerted force. Things that closely relate to the idea are examples of someone skiing down a hill, a ball being thrown, moving a desk/furniture, etc. This can be seen when you’re responding to different physics equation, and when it comes to objects that have a single movement they have a very simple and easy answer to them, and don’t really need that much thought put into them. But in the text, it helped the audience, including myself, to understand a deeper and truthful side of the ideas that live between physics and non-living objects. When I was reading the text I was able to change my perspective on how I look at non-living objects have a different purpose/actions in the aspect of life and physics. I learned that are many new things from this text and that there’s different ways that you can think of.

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Tech. Com. - Prompt B

One of the quotes that made me think more deeply about the technological advancements that we had was “Basalla admits that, whereas natural things arise out of random natural processes, made things come out of purposeful human activity. Such activity, manifested in psychological, economic, and other social and cultural factors, is what creates the milieu in which novelty appears among continuously evolving artifacts.”  (p.26).  I believe that overall meaning that the quote is trying to get to the audience is that things that are used within our daily lives have a purpose. For example, the keyboard that I typed this out was made with the purpose of that and same goes for a door handle, it was made for the daily human being is able to grab and open a door to allow access to other place. I believe that Basalla statement makes total sense and can be seen throughout the real world. This can be seen in the workforce in the fact that we have people are constantly designing different things that have the sole purpose of improving the lives of the people and making sure that it fits the needs of the people at the movement. We, as a society, must understand things are being made and evolve in order to fit the time and the people’s needs at that time. This is key to Basalla argument when he states it to his audience.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

In “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, by Thomas S. Kuhn, There were several topics that were covered that were done in order to expand the knowledge about the always-changing ideas within the scientific community. In Chapter 9, “The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions”, Kuhn defines Scientific Revolution as “a non cumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one”. As progress into the rest of the text, he relates the Scientific Revolution to Political Revolutions in order to demonstrate the similarities that exist between them two. He goes into depth about the idea of political revolution and it overall happens due to small actions that are done. Kuhn starts to refute the idea of logical positivist because he believed that it made any theory ever used by a significant group of competent scientists immune to attack and the significance of scientific advance has a risk of possibly being wrong. I believe that I got an overall better understanding the view of the scientific revolution and how it has many aspects to it. Also, I got to understand the point of view of Thomas S. Kuhn and he was able to demonstrate to his audience, including myself, his reasoning behind the different ideas he has. There was many things that the author mentioned such as the reference that he used between Political Revolution and Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn when into depth and broke down the whole process. He demonstrated to his audience how a revolution goes down. After reading this, I got a better grasp at the idea of a scientific revolution and the way that many scientist around the world think of to make and disprove each others theories/ideas. Thomas S. Kuhn makes a good argument and is able to support it throughout the text and gives several examples with it.

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Clear As Mud

I believe that concept that the way that science reports or scholarly journals changed in which has it made it harder for the general public to understand and this change has caused it to make the language and words understandable by the people within that community. Overall, I believe that it is for the better to change the type of language used depending on the audience.

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Six Easy Pieces

Science is a concept that many of us either understand or have tremendous trouble with it. There are theories and ideas that are spreading around that support or contradict and it is a continuous pattern. Throughout “Six Easy Pieces”, The author, Richard P. Feynman, tries to introduce to his audience the notion of whole entire society have a somewhat understanding of what truly is science and how it can be incorrect or correct. While reading the text, Feynman made clear to show the difference between two concepts and the correct ways of the physics world. For example, on page 2, Feynman regards two different type of physicist which are theoretical and experimental. He differs them as theoretical physicist are those that “imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, do not experiment” in comparison to the experimental physicist are those that experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess”. Feynman goes into depth to explain how we aren’t actually correct due to the accuracy of the values which we solve or resultants that received from an experiment. In order to convey a better strength to his argument to his ideas, he uses the example of the water droplet and the atoms that it make it in the “Matter is made of atoms” section. In this part, Feynman is able to is to use the different figures in order how they are correct and what parts are incorrect. On Page 9, Feynman uses the example of the figure that is shows the structure of the ice atom. He states “although it contains many of the correct features  of ice, it is not the true arrangement. One of the correct features is that there is a part of the symmetry that is hexagonal”. This demonstrates the misconceptions of what is accuracy and the correctness of results. Overall, There was a better understanding of the ideas and theories in the science world and understanding that something may or may not be correct.