The beauty of Science

captainstorm — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:06:57 GMT

The Beauty of Science Model: Tally Body Painting, Photography and Digital Art: Niveque Storm From the beginning of time man has sought to understand his world. Yet for many thousands of years he did not have the tools to do so. He saw the sun blazing high in the sky, the rain that fell from the heavens, and a thousand other phenomena he couldn't begin to explain. Yet he did. He created gods of the sky and earth of wind and rain, of thunder and lightning. Yet his basic reason finally led him to the proper tool to understand the world in which he found himself. The process of science was born. The careful examination of the natural world followed by hypothesis, then experiment, then peer review and more experiment. A system in which finding the truth was paramount. A system which sought to correct its false beliefs. A system where a man could fervently espouse an idea for 20 years only to be proven completely false and find himself overjoyed at being proven wrong, because in so doing, we were one step closer to understanding the universe. A system which valued truth instead of dogma. Through science man learned the sun was made of hydrogen and not a god. Once man believed that the gods controlled the lightning, but now it is we who control the lightning. The beauty of science is that it has changed how we view the world we live in, in every conceivable way. We no longer have to be frightened peasants hiding from the weather and sacrificing animals and people to appease the gods. The beauty of science is that we can see out into the universe and not see constellations that make up animals, and portents and signs, but instead black holes, quasars and nebulae. We can look to the center of our galaxy made of a billion billion stars and realize the sheer unimaginable vastness and beauty of all that our universe represents. See it, and know that some day we will understand even more than we do today. That indeed we CAN know about the universe. We need not take anything on faith without evidence. We can seek the truth and find it. Truth that is real enough to fly you on a jet to Europe, treat your diabetes, and make predictions so accurate about the future that they are down to the millisecond. Such achievements are beautiful beyond compare and I am amazed and glad that I live in the age of science. Thanks to Tally a fellow Atheist and lover of science for agreeing to model for this body painting which may not be pretty and swirling feminine designs, but instead allowed her beauty to showcase the beauty of the equations that govern the working of our universe. Featured in the body paint job are many equations - in parts or in whole with occasional tweaking for space. Many of Newtons Laws including universal gravitation Laws of thermodynamics Einsteins general relativity Einsteins mass energy Einsteins Energy of Photons Square cube law Heisenberg's uncertainty principle Faraday's Law Amperes Law Boyle's Law Entropy balance equation Entropy Gauss law of magnetics Lorentz Transformations Ideal Gas Law

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The beauty of Science

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