Science

This blog is about science.

Science is a big part of my life. But it's not just because I'm a nerd.

Science is a big part of everybody's lives. Whether they think so or not. We call the people who think science isn't a part of their lives "politicians". These politicians try to propagate their disbelief in science by decreasing government spending on research and increasing senate salaries.

However, science is important, even in the lives of politicians.

In order to help people discover science in their lives, I have constructed an analysis of the scientific method with applications to everyday life.

Any good science starts out with a good hypothesis. This can be in the form of a question like they teach you in elementary school. It can also be in sentence form. Real science happens when hypotheses are in sentence form, and begin with the words "Wouldn't it be cool if...".

For example,

Wouldn't it be cool if we could fly? (=>Airplanes)

Wouldn't it be cool if we could change the DNA of sick people and make them healthy? (=>Gene therapy)

Wouldn't it be cool if we could create a tomato sauce that wouldn't stain your white shirt? (=>???)

And then you do experiments until you disprove your hypothesis.

Like today, I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if I could run two wash cycles (a white and color wash at $1.50 each on the washer downstairs) and then stuff all the clothes into the dryer (1 dry cycle at $1.50) and have the clothes come out dry, thereby saving $1.50 per cycle of clothes?

And then I tried it out. Unfortunately, this was one of those hypotheses of the class Hypotheses that lead to disappointment. In my case, the disappointment was a bunch of damp clothes with possible coloring in some of my whites.



But even the great Edison had experience with Hypotheses that lead to disappointment which I think may have been why he lost hearing in one ear. And in his pictures, his clothes appear to be a little off-white.

And the last part of science is to let everyone know about it.

And that's why I'm going to let you in on a little secret:

"Wouldn't it be cool if women were impressed at the stamina and moral discipline it takes to become a Rock Band Expert?" is a Hypothesis that leads to disappointment.