1.a What is science?
Science. What is it, and why exactly is it important? Well, sit back, and let me explain.
Once upon a time, a guy named Isaac Newton, was sitting underneath an apple tree reading some book that he must have found amusing, when suddenly – an apple falls down, and hits his head. This made Isaac think: What gave the apple the power to fall down? Why didn’t it go up, or sideways? And then he wondered: Why do I fall back down, whenever I jump? After thinking about for a couple of minutes, he came up with a reasonable answer: There must be some sort of force that is pushing everything and everyone, down, whenever, or however, it moves. Let’s call this gravity, he thought. Newton was right, of course. Oh, and if you haven’t figured it out yet, science, is when an observation becomes a theory that you can prove. Therefore, Isaac observing the apples power to fall down made him think of the theory that gravity was indeed a thing, which, he was later capable of proving, is science!
1.b What kinds of understanding does science contribute about the natural world? …show more content…
But to take an example from the textbook; remember that area of grass, that some scientists had observed was looking really short in comparison to some other area of grass? And then they made a theory that the long grass was long, because the dirt that it was standing in had more nitrogen in it, than the other area of grass’s dirt? And so, they decided to test their theory by finding two identical areas of grass (let’s call them area A and B, by the way), adding some nitrogen to area A and then, proving their theory right, as area A’s grass was soon much longer than area B’s. Now, we know that by adding nitrogen to dirt, the grass that is growing in it, will grow faster. Ergo, we can by understanding the science behind nature, interact with it, in both positive and negative
Science. What is it, and why exactly is it important? Well, sit back, and let me explain.
Once upon a time, a guy named Isaac Newton, was sitting underneath an apple tree reading some book that he must have found amusing, when suddenly – an apple falls down, and hits his head. This made Isaac think: What gave the apple the power to fall down? Why didn’t it go up, or sideways? And then he wondered: Why do I fall back down, whenever I jump? After thinking about for a couple of minutes, he came up with a reasonable answer: There must be some sort of force that is pushing everything and everyone, down, whenever, or however, it moves. Let’s call this gravity, he thought. Newton was right, of course. Oh, and if you haven’t figured it out yet, science, is when an observation becomes a theory that you can prove. Therefore, Isaac observing the apples power to fall down made him think of the theory that gravity was indeed a thing, which, he was later capable of proving, is science!
1.b What kinds of understanding does science contribute about the natural world? …show more content…
But to take an example from the textbook; remember that area of grass, that some scientists had observed was looking really short in comparison to some other area of grass? And then they made a theory that the long grass was long, because the dirt that it was standing in had more nitrogen in it, than the other area of grass’s dirt? And so, they decided to test their theory by finding two identical areas of grass (let’s call them area A and B, by the way), adding some nitrogen to area A and then, proving their theory right, as area A’s grass was soon much longer than area B’s. Now, we know that by adding nitrogen to dirt, the grass that is growing in it, will grow faster. Ergo, we can by understanding the science behind nature, interact with it, in both positive and negative