Brian Green on the Importance of Science Education

[lovelplants]

yeah love science! brian green is really cool.. :)

[EdwardCullensMayo]

I find it interesting the attire of Brian and the background; light is conventionally symbolized as holy, pure, and good. Where does this ideology fit into modern quantum physics?

(Spoilers: it doesn't.)

[RuneDrake314]

@EdwardCullensMayo Does the double-slit experiment have anything to do with QP? 'Cos the happened to use photons for those...

[RuneDrake314]

Exactly...but in a way, every time we ask and then try to answer a question, we do that. A ask the question why, then answer, "Because I think it's this way. I'm going to test it. I'm going to tell you the result." It happens, without your realizing it, over and over again in a startlingly short period of time. It's just that some people ask the questions whose answers are more important., and then go and find those answers.

Sorry it took me so long to get back, I've had homework. :D

[RuneDrake314]

@sbergman27 Actually, if we can ask questions, we're good.

[sbergman27]

@RuneDrake314 Ask questions where? On the internet? There are lots of sites where people can ask questions. That's how the 'facts' about the LHC producing world-eating strangelets and black holes, and the impending world decimation by Nibiru in accordance with the Mayan calendar get distributed so effectively. What is needed is a strong introduction to Critical Thinking at a young age. By high school, it's too late.

[RuneDrake314]

@sbergman27 Orly?

Actually, science is just the art of observation, fine-tuned. That's why two-year-olds are all little scientists. They always ask, "Why, how, when, what?" when they see something. They see first, and then they ask, and then they think. Actually, I think they're better scientists than most of us. ;D

[sbergman27]

@RuneDrake314 Science is a process of asking questions, combined with the application of the "scientific method": hypothesizing, experimenting, and trying to reject the null hypothesis. People who ask questions without using the underlying method aren't doing science. Very often they do well as conspiracy theorists. Just look at how the topic of AGW is treated almost as a matter of religion, with people who don't know diddly about science feeling their opinions are somehow as valid as any other.

[spinolex]

I could listen to him for days.....

[marcelinabc]

wow really inspires!