String Theory
This entry has been edited! I thought about this more afterwards because it's hard for me to write a response to something so complicated straight after I've just spent an hour or so watching and trying to understand it.
I think that this theory may actually exist but it is really complicated. I find it really hard to understand but I think it's really interesting how they are trying to achieve unification of the four fundamental forces and find the equation that proves everything in the world. If we can really find this equation, we can explain everything about the world and every question we ever had about our existence, the world and the entire universe. I think this is exciting in some ways because all of life's questions can be answered by this SINGLE equation. This basically unites everything about the world, from science to philosophy to even religion and it could end the whole debate about how we humans came to be about. We humans strive to find the meaning of life, our place in the world and everything about existence. I'm really interested in philosophy and I think that it will be so amazing if all of life's questions could be answered!
However, I am not sure if we can really prove this. We might, but it may take us another lifetime to just reach this groundbreaking breakthrough in science they are so sure we are close to reaching. I think if we did prove/find this equation, life would be really different to what it is now. It would completely alter the way we think and live. Humans have a lot of curiosity which we try to satisfy whenever and however we can but sometimes, I think it's beauty to know there is still some mystery in the world.
Labels: science
Reflection on Science Expedition "How and Why Things Move" - Friction
What did you like about the way it was organized? What didn't you like about it? Do you believe you learned more or less this way? What would you like to see changed for next time?
I think I learned a lot from this experience. It was a challenge to completely understand the topic but it was good how we were given some but just enough (divine...? Haha) intervention from Mr. Loken to enable us to gain our understanding. Ranging from being clueless to confusion to frustration to the final enlightening “Ahh!” moment, we learnt a lot; not just getting our heads around the main concepts, the vocabulary we had to understand, the formulae we needed to use, the math and calculations behind it all, but of the whole team-work process. Not that it was hard for us to work in a team (we work really well together, okay?! *gets defensive*), but it was a really benefiting experience just to be able to see how we are able to help each other.
I think we learned more this way because we had to completely immerse ourselves with everything that had to do with our topic and go through the whole process to reach the understanding which we have for our topic now. However, I know for a fact we found it sort of hard to explain it to the group about our topic because they hadn’t gone through the whole experience like we had. I think this also made it a little hard for us to understand the other groups’ topics. I also think the math/calculations were hard to explain to the class... I think the good thing about this kind of expedition is everyone becomes an expert at their topic but at the same time, it’s somewhat harder for us to reach the understanding of the other topics.
Labels: science
