 Okay, it appears to be time to start and as I mentioned before Yeah, I'm not sure about 20 9 at 49 for me But welcome to science circle and what I'd like to do today is and feel free to ask questions and comment and text during the Presentation and what I'd like to do today is something a little different What I'd like to do first is I'd like to invite you on a journey together And many people over thousands of years have taken this journey Themselves, but always more fun to travel together. So let me describe what I have mine for us Okay, let's talk about a little bit about the theory of science first of all Are there any artists or musicians out there? anybody an artist musician Are there a creator that's like me? I play I've been playing violins in This fourth grade, but I haven't done it for years now But I like it. Oh quilt. Okay. Good. That's another Creative endeavor now. Is anyone getting paid for it? Yeah Anybody raising their hand on getting paid Okay, so what I'm suggesting is that we're oh there you go. Wow Okay, what I'm suggesting is that you Can be a scientist without getting paid for without being a professional scientist The same way you can with artists or musicians. I Also would like to propose that Artists and musicians are creative people and they view art or listen to music or create themselves Because it makes them feel good because it inspires them about the wonders of human expression They rarely do it for practical purposes. So I Will propose that everyone out there is a scientist because They like science it makes them feel good about the wonders of the world around them and What your reward is if it's not compensation is knowledge and understanding of our world and that could be Both humbling and wonders at the same time. It's only been fairly recently that we've come to Demanded something practical come of it and that's pretty much because of Money backing and such for doing science. Okay, so what do all scientists have in common here? Just like all artists and museums and musicians and stuff may be creative. What do All scientists have in common curiosity. Okay, that's the prerequisite for a science is There's actually a book out You go a calling in other words, it's something that you're drawn to rather than a profession You can have it as a profession. So you spend a lot of time on it, but basically it's a calling so there was a book in 2012 by Phillip ball a name curiosity how science became interested in everything and They're oh, yes if I actually one of the things if you actually read about professional musicians like the people in queens and stuff some of them are quite educated as well as talented and Lotta lotta. Yeah a lot of different Knowledge and skills and music just happens to be one of them and they experiment a lot with music as well So any case in this book He starts out by talking about the large hadron collider anyone know that or What i'm talking about? Okay Yeah particle accelerator And why do we have it? I mean it took 25 years to plan six billion dollars to Build and it's similar to the type of spacecraft that go Exploring the planets and stuff like that. So why why do we have it? Is there anything practical that will come out of it? Well for scientists, it doesn't always have to be practical now that actually there will be not yeah, not in the short term But One of the things that's okay one of Things during the time it was being built was that instead of hailing it as an incredible advance in technology One of probably the most one of the more complicated machines that humans have ever devised and created is that you sometimes got in the in the media fixated about the fear that it would create a black hole and destroy the earth And then other people were saying wow all the money going into it Why can't we feed the poor or other types of things and so even in this day and age? there is a When we talk about science and we talk about perhaps our fears and That it's not doing something practical, but in reality. We can't know what it can do um just like in other words just like scissor g mentioned is Science is about the unknown and we do science in order to find out about how things work Albert Einstein had a quote up there the important things not to stop questioning never to lose a holy Curiosity we'll come back to the that term in a minute about why he may have used that But some of the big jumps in innovation and technology and science Have come about through pure curiosity and if they didn't have the curiosity they Would not have discovered electricity and radio and radioactivity and radar and plastics antibiotics like penicillin And okay, it's interesting that you mentioned basic um research and stuff because my next quote here is From uh, Stephen Hawking's is that a lot of our modern science is based on Advances in pure science now. What is pure science because that's essentially scissor g mentioned that Sciences I like that. That's a good turn But what's pure science as opposed to what hey, wow, that's a good um example Tiki go ahead on in our protocol here and for people that have been in here for a while you can just kind of speak out in chat It's um Think more theoretical. Yeah, okay. There you go. In other words the idea is pure sciences carry Yeah, it's the it's what we do because okay, we'll be Exciting and so we we do it simply because we want to learn And in a lot of cases like um The space program and stuff there has been quite a bit of Return on that but it's not necessarily done for return as now on the other hand applied science because and this mainly came after World War two anyone know about uh, banner Let's say if I'm pronouncing it right vantabar bush 1945 he Uh made a great paper that basically said we need more scientific research This led to a lot of government funding to research, but then because it was public dollars. This is in the united states a lot of public dollars, so they had to account for those public dollars and that's where a lot of the grant organizations came about trying to account for dollars etc etc in other words if there wasn't Something practical coming from it. Then it was less likely you might get money. Yeah Um Okay, welcome. We still have people showing up Welcome barrigan. Okay. Now if you look at this this slide's a little noisy, so you may want to Zoom in on it, but the idea Here behind behind this slide is that it shows this is what's called the research union From about a decade ago and it starts with uh, kind of a philosophical background In other words, is anyone any physicists in the audience here? Yeah It does me too But yeah, oh there are Okay, does anyone know like what positivism or interpretivism or post-positivism or stuff I'm not a Philosopher, but I can explain a little bit what that means in particular Positivism was kind of what we Thought about science at the beginning. In other words, it's a philosophy that there's a certain knowledge It's where the idea of facts come in That and that when we study The world around us that we should try our level best to kind of Be outside of our study. In other words, we don't want to contaminate it with our own thoughts or opinions and then About a hundred years ago somebody said, well, you know, you really can't do that I mean everybody who observes something who measures something is measuring what they think is significant and or observable and so most of what we do is based on our own background and knowledge and values and what we think Is important and so that was kind of a post-positivist A philosophy about science Later on and and that became more popular the seven or at least more acknowledged in the 70s 80s 90s and through today And then there was the idea that interpretivism that we ourselves Research is we're the primary instrument of observation. So what we can do is we can kind of train ourselves To be able to interpret the meaning behind people's actions and what they say and such And so it's it came all the way from Humans are not part of nature so to speak and we should stay out of it too We are very much a part of the whole thing. We need to acknowledge our prejudices and biases and experience so that we So that people reading what we do and reading our research and science and then go, oh, yeah, okay I understand how you relate to this and Therefore I know how Your philosophies and such have Become a part of it So that's kind of what this says up there and so and then of course you can read the other parts is As you get down through the onion you get into the area where you're actually collecting data and You're looking at different approaches to the phenomenon and stuff And I won't go through all of that right now, but for your researchers. It should be pretty familiar territory there Okay, but I would like to come back to some basics. Okay, so truth, belief and science Anyone wants to volunteer on one of those going to talk a bit about science here, but that's why I'm doing it What is truth or belief? Is there belief in science? Is there truth? We know there's science Okay, so belief what is required for belief are there any requirements Yeah, there's both Um It can be okay. I would say it can be proved from a philosophical standpoint Yeah, okay. Now. Yeah, I am too barren on in other words when people say they believe in science And that's kind of why I brought this up now there are It's the same way as when we take Look at this post positive post positive Um Acceptance of premises or previously established facts are accepted. Okay So there's a lot of ways of looking at this, but let me propose that in science There are some beliefs that then can be proved in other words the idea one of them is is that if I study another solar system Like what they're doing now in fact actually if you look at one of The latest news is they found a water vapor around one of the planets around another star and It may not be a habitable place because it's a larger earth and such but Okay, well now, you know, you have an interesting point and I'm going to get back to that about The earth spinning and step and how can we believe? I mean right here, of course right here if you're sitting on earth It's hard to believe that you're spinning because everything is going In the same speed and so from a relative to this standpoint. It's hard to pinpoint that it's spinning unless you look out at far away objects like the stars and see that they're also they're all moving uniformly through the Sky so that means either they're moving or we're moving and if we know that they're very far away that happy moving very fast in other words you can kind of Make some reasoning to assume that oh, maybe we're moving or the earth may be spinning around Hey, now that's a very good point and we're going to get back to that the idea that theory is not subject to revision and such like that So because that's part of what science in fact actually Is predicated on the idea that anything can be challenged and good scientists Want to see real evidence that might Challenge What their theories are so that they can modify so that they better explain the real world That's all part and parcel of science Yes, and actually tiki we're going to get to the scientific process right now I'm kind of going through the kind of the theory and ideas about science and that's exactly Right In other words, we all kind of agree on a way to look at it What we might say in science though is there's really no truth a lot of people though Do have truths there's things that they hold to be true In science that's hard To say there are theories in other words I could probably bet my life That the sun's going to come up in a particular position As long as I know how to read the charts But I wouldn't say it's a Absolute truth I would say that it's a theory it explains What we see in and observe Okay, so in particular in science there needs to be evidence And it's an observable or The physical world in other words science has nothing to say about Things we can't observe measure We can say they're mathematically possible. We were talking about parallel worlds earlier and or parallel universes And yes, they're mathematically possible, but we can't really say they're scientifically True In fact, actually black holes, right black holes used to be a mathematical possibility From einstein's day and it wasn't until recently that we could actually show Through interferometry that there were black holes. I mean my goodness Yeah, okay. I will agree with steven is essentially it's a set of explanations with predictive value and Then and yes, if we want to call that a truth because We all basically as peer reviews reviewers say yes all that Lines up with what we predict, but on the other hand, we never want to say it's A fact it's truth. It's the only way of looking at this because Uh, we know that we know everything and that's a humbling thing So let's take a look at now that we are looking at all the different ways That the people have looked at science or what the theory of science. Let's look at it from A practice standpoint that is how have people thought about science in the past? I do apologize my Presentation is a bit Eurocentric if you are from another part of the Uh world, please interject About things and and even in in showing, you know, Albert Einstein and steven hawkins and stuff. I admit to An ignorance About some of the other things that You might be able to present about other parts of the world. So let me know Yep. Okay. There you go. Um observe hypothesis predict tests, etc Now I want to go a little bit further on that because hypotheses, for example, are not Something you do in qualitative research um Or testing for example, so science is also can be quantitative quantitative or qualitative So, okay, so basically if you look back in europe anyway The word curiosity itself was not used very much into the mid 1600s It's about the time of psoriasic newton and others in the area And before that time, of course asking questions about things was um part and parcel of being human But basically it was a lot of times when people asked How all this works or why and such it was for the purpose of finding practical purposes for them And the other part of this was you had to be kind of careful because Uh, we all know this saying, um At least, um People with english language know this saying curiosity killed the cat. I'm not sure that That translates to every language, but um There were a lot of authorities that held that basically their truth was how things were Worked and why they were and they were pretty adamant that other people didn't question that And so it's only been fairly recently that we have Been able to question some of those types of truth and some time periods it's been rather dangerous to question um truths of others But here again in science, we're not saying we have the truth We're just saying we have this as an explanation and before anybody know what science was called back in the before the Oh, I don't know 1800s. In other words, uh before we actually had, um, yeah Here you can build the cat there natural wow Okay, a flurry of answers natural philosophy. So if you think about it natural philosophy was um A way Oh, that's okay. There you go. Lots of languages and such um natural philosophy was a philosophical way of looking at Uh nature instead of people. I mean philosophy. There's a lot about people and such but you looked at nature And before we had instruments and such that to be able to measure we had to Go. Oh my there's stars up there. There's planets Uh, how is it that they're not come crashing into the earth? Uh, like other earthly objects? Well, uh, Perhaps they're not earthly objects. Perhaps There are, um Other forces which are holding them up there Perhaps they're divine, uh, which means that they're divine then they don't have Imperfections therefore they must be circular they're in circular Orbits and such and and so it went and we had to do and we did the same for a lot of other natural Um things we saw in the natural world um And then in the 1800s Yeah, okay, um And you're bearing on that. I agree with you there. In fact actually that's kind of the start But what they what kind of uh started that is when you really For example Observe nature and record it. What do you see for example with mars orbit? Um, you are going to see mars getting brighter dimmer and you can say well, yeah, it's going around the sun provided Of course that the sun is in the center not earth Um, so you had to concede that and then you go. Oh, oh my goodness Uh earth is going in retrograde motion. Very good max. I didn't prompt her on this Not beforehand. She she happened to guess what I was going to say next. Okay. Oh my goodness It's going backwards. What could possibly explain that and if you had to stick with Circular orbits, then you basically had to say well, there's these little epicycles. That is Circles within circles and stuff and then it got really messy until of course somebody came up with a much more Simpler idea that well, they're not circular orbits. They're elliptical and stuff and even today I was going to ask for example How many hours in a second life day? Anybody anybody thought about that anybody measured? Is there six? I thought there was four, but I may not have measured it six four. That's what I thought But uh, I don't know. I haven't checked it out lately. I mean most of the time I come in and go to Uh world I sent my um Six cycles. Oh, okay. Very good Great. Exactly. Six cycles with respect to first life hours, but It is a specific time zone and step and so one of the reasons I think Let's oh, I need to ask um our Former second life um Linden people here, but the idea is that I thought Yeah, time lords exactly I thought that one of the reasons was essentially because second life is a world wide platform for connecting people is that you couldn't have a particular cycle of time where it's uh based on the civic time uh because of so many Um people around the world. Of course, you can just go in and go, you know world sun midday or Midnight or whatever and multiple. Oh, yeah, uh, actually max. I think I remember reading that in other words multiple Sunrises multiple sunsets. Um, that's why there's so many beaches in second life. In other words, it's the type of things we Like to see and the nights aren't so long, you know, and that sort of Maybe Mike That we've certainly found habitable zones Uh red dwarfs More than we have around Yeah, I know I know the feeling. Okay. So any case, let's go. Let's take a look then at In other words in the 1800s people began get curious about the world and started studying different aspects of it That's where fields of biology and physics and chemistry and stuff came about and then once they did some study Uh, they would get together Just like in philosophy circles and they would discuss what they found and people would Argue about it and then they would share what they found in scientific journals that essentially Is the same today and then the scientific method as we mentioned as was mentioned early Um Is much older, uh, but became better defined in this period and it's not really uh A step by step process so much as it's a set of principles So let's take a look at some of the principles associated with the scientific method one of the If you want to think of it as a belief although it's more provable Like I said is that if you're going to study some star Or a galaxy that's billions of light years away You kind of have to start with the idea that uh, it's got the same physics rules of physics And the same elements and such that we have here In other words, if it didn't then it'd be very difficult to study anything if it varied from meter to meter as you Uh went around so uh, that's kind of the belief that it's also somewhat of a provable thing. We can see Uh the spectra Such of course, that's how we know that the universe was expanding this spectra Moving frequency move that sort of thing. Um, so any case Yeah zero and And such okay, so in any case, uh, the principles of scientific um method are first of all you have to start out with curiosity and Curiosity leads to observation. Will that where will the sun come up tomorrow? That sort of thing Now observation doesn't have to be something that you can necessarily observe yourself. So for example, I asked how many hours in a second life day Oh, but how many or four hours? I guess there's six cycles So has the earth day always been 24 hours? That may be a trick question because we kind of find out but has it always been no Indeed and how do we know that? We've Observed it Um It depends in other words if you go back to in other words if you go back to The time of the dinosaurs it was actually about 23 hours if it's and there again scissor chi has talked about how the Tides uh the tidal action of the moon actually has been slowing down the earth At one time, of course the moon was closer the moon Actually gets further and further from the earth by about an inch per year um, so There's all these and we can actually see this in The rocks and fossils in the other evidence. So when we say observe I don't necessarily mean like go out and observe right now, but we can see it in things times illusion lunchtime Absolutely. Okay. So Curiosity is the first thing Why how oh now by the way, why is not necessarily a science question Now there's why does this exist et cetera? That's more uh philosophical or religious question, but how is definitely a A science question Dark tea time of the saw Yeah, okay, so, uh Curiosity and observation and then you have to ask questions They often say that einstein Didn't speak for many years when he was a kid and that when he grew up he was able to ask questions Like a child and I think we all should do that in other words. I think growing up completely is not recommended and that One way to enjoy life and to be curious and be a good scientist is to uh Ask the type of questions that yeah, um, sometimes the profound questions are the simplest ones um One of the profound questions that uh from 20 years ago Which was a simple question and was um A one that actually a One scientist came up and I wish I remember her name But she basically was measuring much like um with the Hubble constant There were a lot of measurements back then by a team of women scientists And then Hubble kind of claimed Yeah, credit for some of it, but the idea back about 20 years ago is that a scientist was measuring uh, how fast stars were And in areas of the milky way and such were going around the middle and in the solar system We know for example as the outer planets take a long time to go around The sun but the inner planets zip around in in days So they were saying oh Why Are the outer arms for example of the milky way still arms for one? But why are they going around about the same speed as the ones at the inner? And so does anyone know what the answer was what they came up with or what they said had to be In order for that to happen. How do you explain that? Yeah, dark matter. Um And they had they basically said the only way for this to happen or at least One explanation for this to happen is there has to be something that we do not see That interacts with gravity But we don't see it interacting with other matter that we know of And so and there must be a lot of stuff And so it contributes to the overall kind of Making this an entire disk that all kind of goes around At the same speed and then Dark and and so we were going. Oh, that's kind of humbling in other words a lot of the Matter out there we can't observe And then another person discovered. Oh my goodness the universe is not only expanding but it's expanding at a greater Rate and how Can it do that and so they came up with dark energy? And so 20 years ago essentially they said. Oh my goodness. Uh, only five percent of what we can see out there Is matter that we know so 95 percent of the universe. We really don't know a whole lot about And I think that's one of the most exciting things about science is not saying we know everything but that We are humble we Don't think it isn't that wonderful is the the world is A wonderful place. Hey, that's interesting. They were shorter In fact, actually, you know Now not to diverge too much because we could easily talk about stuff like this for hours on in but we try to keep it to about an hour so the people that are Experimenting out in the desert about martian days Of course the martian day is slightly longer than on earth. So they basically have to readjust Their bodies and circadian rhythms and stuff Or try to in order to live a martian day. Otherwise you end up. I'm not sure I don't think it's quite that long, but um, I do know it's uh long enough That over a period of days, uh, you start. Oh, there we go. Okay um over a period of Days, uh, you start to notice and you may have to take a a nap or something Okay, so any case uh So you try to explain why? And then you look for evidence And you analyze that and then one of the really good things about science is then you share you go Uh, maybe that's just because it worked there Mike, but um You share with other people and you go and they look at your work and they look very critically at this is peer review and they go, okay, I Understand your methods because you're very transparent with it. Uh, I see your data I agree with your analysis and your conclusions and therefore Oh, wow, uh, you just contributed to something new to the body of literature and what we know and therefore we may have to Um, adjust our explanation of things a bit more um Well, yeah, there we go. Yeah, my understanding of their tagline was they thought I thought it was 24 hours, but actually it's a bit longer In fact, maybe we're going to be a bit more comfortable with the martian cycle. Oh, are we from mars? No, I'm just speaking Okay, but maybe we're more comfortable with the martian cycle when we get there so, uh, the On the slide up there are the principles of the scientific method and that we still do today Okay. Now another way that science, uh Is different from other ways of looking Things is that one is We need to have evidence um The other thing is we need to look at all possible possible evidence. So for example, what is the evidence that the earth is flat Do we have any evidence? Uh, my circadian rhythm Not sure Yeah, it's flat locally. That's right. I mean it sure looks flat in second life But then again, I think it is Um, but that's a artificial world, but it kind of looks flat, right? But You can't stop there the science. You can't stop there. So for example, you have to look at all possible Um, and then let's yeah rather flat. Yeah west texas, too Okay, so you have to look at all possible evidence You just can't look at the evidence that agrees with what you believe So for example, one of the ways to fly in airplanes never cross One of the ways uh to See that is what happens if I were to what happens if a cruise ship pulls up right here Outside the auditorium and then sails off into the distance. Now, of course in second life, they're going to run out Uh region real quick, but uh, if this were first life, what would happen? They'd get little they'd get smaller and smaller, right? Okay But what else would happen? What would you see if the ship as a ship? Yeah They would okay, they'd fall off the edge possibly. Uh, but what would happen would be essentially you would Uh, you wouldn't see the whole ship get smaller and smaller essentially the yeah, there we go essentially the Hall would start to get Less high and then you wouldn't see the Hall of the ship and all you'd see would be the mass And that's where they can then of course, you know later on we've got satellites and the satellites sure look like the earth is uh Round and so the idea in science is that it's not just evidence It's you have to consider all of the evidence because if there's any evidence that does not explain the phenomenon Then you have to consider it And the other thing is reproducing it. It can't be something that um Behind the wall of ice could be I mean the the ice flows look flat. Okay, so um You have to be able to reproduce it and that's why you're very transparent in the scientific journals and stuff This is my question. This is the data I gathered This is how I did it. This is how I analyzed it This are the conclusions I got so that other people can reproduce that and hopefully get the same results under the same conditions and then of course the idea is that uh, it's open and a modification um and I want to say one thing about hypotheses is that In quantitative research, you've got hypotheses in other words You've got this thing that you actually in fact actually for people that do research They they know that what you're trying to Uh, very what you're looking at is actually the null hypothesis so that you don't buy it buy us In other words, if you think this you're trying to actually prove the opposite and therefore and then if you can't um prove Uh, significantly that the opposite is true than the other side must be true Um, okay, so any case but in qualitative research, there's still scientific ways of analyzing and you Come up with basically qualitative data and then analyze it come up with conclusions and stuff as well So, uh, that is science now. Let's take a look then at that science both in theory and practice So let's take a look then at what we're trying to do trying to do here and so Science is hands-on and right now I'm giving a presentation. This is similar to the other presentations. We've Given but what I'm inviting you to do is go on a journey not just uh single Uh presentation What I mean by that is let me take a look at what I wrote in the description for this session is essentially We'll start our journey by reaching a common understanding of nature science and uh steam and I need to explain that one Does anyone know what um in other words and What I would like to do is I would simply like to facilitate this journey In other words, I don't claim to be an expert on everything. I don't claim I have the truth But I have talked for years and I hope to be able to facilitate our journey a bit And so what I'd like to do is What is steam anyways? Ah, there he goes damn plus arts. So I'd like to kind of just like a research Normally does I'd like to kind of focus on science technology engineering math and art Arts much like kind of a post-positivist Philosophy art it is But the reason why I wanted to mention is it's not a term that she is everywhere in the world Um steam is hot good And actually what I'm trying to do where the session is called exploring science and second law. That's also a double Long tundra like steam is hot in other words. Um, we're not necessarily just Going to explore the science that we find in second life But I sure like to start there in other words. I'd like to have field trips and scavenger hunts and building things and Visits by experts and in other words the idea is to use second life as a platform for a global exploration of science And so Art I want to in other words one of the things if you actually look on this island for example What do you see anybody wander around this island? What science do we see on second life island? Or second science circle on this heart okay You are you curious about things Mike. Oh, there is Oh, there you go A boundary where yeah in other words Why the boundary where the water meets the land generally is called unless it's a lake It's called the sea level, but has the sea level always been the same Have you ever tried to raise the sea level on second? on science circle island What is the sea level in second life anybody happen to know if you're a builder you probably know How high is the sea level from yeah 20 meters? Okay So in other words the the deepest ocean you can get in second life provided you use the default Sea level is 20 meters. However, has anyone ever tried to raise the sea level On one of the second like yeah You can Um, and you can raise it to whatever you can flood the entire island if you want I don't know how high it will go, but um, I've played with it before and it's somewhat disconcerting to be just like flooding and um, I tied it a Storm surge with a hurricane. It's somewhat disconcerting when the water Is laughing at your knees instead of uh further down In in second life and in real life, or I mean first Yeah, okay, so why would this island be here in other words if this is the first Life island what causes islands what causes Bumps and islands in other words not flat islands. Um Why is second life sky blue is it blue or sky is always blue? Why is the water blue? Can you turn it something else? If you're a builder, you might know some of the answers, but of course that's artificial Where the land in the water meets the land in the waves, so where's the boundary? Okay That's a good question because they often have to come up with mean sea level in other words some sort of uh Uh level Also, there's tides and stuff. So yeah water reflects in the side. Uh, why are we able why are we standing? In second life and others. Why is there the gravity isn't of here or is it is gravity different? Uh, all of these sorts of things that if you were, um Really thought about it. We can Explore the other thing is we've had a lot of phenomenal presentations over many years in the science circle and yet I'm would be willing to bet that not everybody here understands the science behind all of the presentations we've had And so that's one of the things. So I'd like to first start out by Yeah Well, do you know now the interesting thing scissorji Is that when I was first in second life, I showed it to a bunch of uh, university professors at my university and What I did was I went up on top of a building and jumped off And I didn't die and then I my avatar got up and one of the professors Immediately got up and said I'm not going to do this because I don't know whether he expected me to die or something but um He basically said, you know, this is not real. So I'm not going to be part of it. Um So, um I thought that was a very interesting reaction Uh from you have Okay, um, but it's a very interesting reaction Uh, that that he had And so any case, uh, yeah, I know So I yeah, I don't know quite what the the deal was. Okay, uh, do accelerate when you fall um Now max that's actually a very interesting thing and I have I have a parachute. I mean, I've gone up really high and Uh free fall and then use the parachute and stuff and I think that you reach terminal velocity at a very quick Rate now you can actually yes, you reach terminal velocity very quickly And so, uh, but you can actually in other words, if you were to build Say a big measurement stick and point it into the air and then measured it on the way down You could Figure that out. I mean, that's a basic Physics problem, but we can do that. Has anyone by the way ever ever Made a object physical in second life that it's mostly objects you make by default are not physical Yes, it's fun. You can do a lot of cool things with physical objects to demonstrate stuff Absolutely So Let's do stuff and you can make bouncy things. That's right. All you have to do is change the physical properties and such so the idea is that Um, let's explore a little bit. Let's answer some questions as we journey together. Let's have a goal Uh to develop a guide, uh to science in second life There used to be by the way, and I don't mean just in second life, but you know second life plus open sources that will explain Science of our presentations and stuff. You weigh more than a duck. Oh, that's a money python. Um, holy grailton Or or no, what was it? Um, yeah, okay. Um, so any case, let's Let's develop a guide there used to be a guide long ago in 2006 2007 time period It was made by I think it was a Troy McLuhan who was the same one that made my slide viewer And he had a guide to all things science in second life and then Uh, yeah, we used to have an exactly max And and that was I think Troy McLuhan and then he gave it to me and I kept it up for a bit And then actually the list went to young laria who's in our that second life things In our in the science circle and he kept it up for some period of time and it'd be kind of fun to to develop that again And to see how Science is represented in second life and also whether it's like if you haven't been okay, I'm going to advertise this a little bit If you haven't been to genome island, it's one of the more phenomenal science places that you can go to about genetic And such and I know max Uses it for classes and such and has for many many years And there are other places as well that both represent science Yeah, if you haven't look it up, I would highly recommend that's one of my Favorite places both earlier and now And so take a look at that and so let's develop a guide And for the purpose of kind of promoting dialogue and education along the steam disciplines And I will help facilitate this. So essentially this it's not just a single Spiral staircases. Yep. Okay. Um, it's not a single Presentation what I'm inviting you to do is let's get back together again on a semi regular basis I could put information in um the science circle website um our Fairless leaders and terribly overworked um, uh directors here Chantel and Jess have set up a site already For the website and so I'll put some stuff in there I'm inviting you to attend this messy many sessions as you're able And let's have some fun Like let's go over to take a look at genome island. Let's get some experts. I've I'll arrange with max hopefully That she can um, uh, walk us around and show us some of the stuff that's there and Um, let's have some fun and and if you haven't built I'm sure we can find some place to Be some genes. Okay. I'll be Uh, uh build some things and there's uh, like for oh, there's also, uh, what is the the chemistry part? I guess somebody already mentioned that all the little chemical molecules and stuff Um, that's here on this island. Let's build things. Let's have some visits by experts. Let's find questions there. Oh excellent Thank you. I've already got a tour of it. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, that was my first Biochemistry was my first degree and so We'll post this information and so you can catch up on the sessions you missed know what's coming up and We can also have perhaps a FAQ Frequently asked questions or a place where you can post questions and people who are experts Yes people who are experts in our group or in other groups Speaking of chemistry that used to be an American chemical Society group in second life And so as we kind of gauge the interest That we have, uh, this is not a replacement for presentation. It's a compliment. It's Our it's the science circle branching out to new Areas we may even have a formal course that you can register and stuff and basically and there may be some homework um So basically and and not mandatory homework. I don't want to in fact That's why I'm resisting calling this a class because it's really a journey that we go on together to learn to explore and so Uh, but there may be some challenges in other words visit places or online to help reinforce session activities prepare for next session That sort of thing So let's see Uh, okay. Good tagline that that's in fact, actually you kind of let into what I have next We tried to wrap things up in an hour So we have about five minutes to wrap things up is so are there things you're particularly interested in Like max said is uh Do we accelerate when we fall? That'd be fairly easy to The measure I think Anything else that you're that you've always wanted to know that maybe there's someone out there um Let's see examples of Yeah, there you go Absolutely Okay, so even if you may not have okay does who does pay for the pure science? Oh for the pure science are arian We are paid in as actually my my wife Gave me this written thing She says basically we are paid in we're true. We're rewarded with knowledge and understanding And also the fact that we could interact with Other people from around the world. I mean that's part of my attraction to being here and said that's also why In my humility, I basically say I don't know anything and so that's why I'm not just talking to myself. I'm talking to Uh, you guys from around the world and I'd love for you to join me on a journey of exploration Yeah donations are nice We basically all pay for the pure science Circle activities, okay We got about five minutes. I'm gonna wrap it up now. There's nothing saying we have to go for an hour and I Appreciate you're taking time to come today And I'd really like to invite you on the journey and you'll hear more from us about what's next and maybe somebody can go out there and uh Tell us whether you accelerate when you fall So thank you. I'll wrap it up and um, you guys take care and you'll be hearing more Yeah, I don't think it's fun