Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Science

The number of people of people taking a level physics dropped 38% between 1990 and 2005. It's as if the interest in science has waned and is on the way out which is strange as the minds behind the creation on line community will be people who were interested in science at school. No scientists would mean no computers which would mean that life as we know it today couldn't exist in the way it does. And it's not just home computing but the running of hospitals and other major institutions that would be so different.

If there's little or no interest in science .. given up in favour of the arts, I suppose, there's no interest in the universe etc or how we got here or anything in that line.

Britain would be worried if the interest waned further as there would be fewer scientists in the UK and we live in a world dominated by science and technologhy in human society. To be honest I thought it would've gone the other way and as science became nore and more part of our lives the more interest there would be in it especially since the 80s as it became more and more obvious that we needed to explore greener ways of living.

Now a days science almost seems to be an archaic word!!!!!!!!! Soooo weird in the middle of a society so dependent on it and one that needs to understand the universe to be able to create a greener life for things like manufacture, travel and heating. for all the expanding population of the world.

As I mention every so often it was two scientists from the UK who fortold climate change way back towards the end of the 19th century if we were to live in an industrial world.

It's not just that side of things but there's a chance to explore the laws of the universe as we know them. And it helps me have an interest in what has happened in the latter part of my life .. just find it something else yo explore .. though it's probably the the thing that's made me the happiest .. being stuck in the middle of this .. gives a lot of meaning to the rest of it .. makes me super curious .. if this could be true what is the meaning behind the rest of it ,, we have no idea because it's something that appears to be unanswerable at the present time. Not the universe and it's laws so much as going beyond that to why anything exists at all .. and how possibly could it.

Everytime someone says this is why this exists there's always the question .. why should anything exist .. any atom .. anything. How come there's a place for this to be.

I suppose science has created a society where other things that have been produced from it seem more interesting. I have to say that the sciences weren't taught in a way that was very interesting when I was at school .. they were very dry and, like a lot of school in those days seemed very removed from real life and work.

Ah, time to do something else ......