Isaac Newton's Official Science Thread Vol 1

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei

The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
T. H. Huxley

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov



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Needs less to say, there is a lot a exciting stuff happening in science as we speak. I you want to keep up or contribute with article links welcome..

Just make sure it's recent..


Today on New Scientist: 18 September 2009 <-- great site, updated daily


Please no religion arguments..

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Scientists Create First Ever Magnetic Gas

Out of Darkness, to Sight: How the Brain Learns to See

Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible

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Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars


..I am hoping we make it there in my life time..

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the bottom line is that we need to get the govt to uncover the truth about aliens so we dont keep on fackin around with the same bs about newton and einstein

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andas pedo o que wey?

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Probe gets clearest glimpse yet of cosmic dawn

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There's a paper coming out in Physical Review B from a team in Kharkov using a field emission electron microscope. At heart, that's a pretty old type of machine, first invented back in the 1930s, and it's long provided images of the arrangements of atoms in metal surfaces. (More precisely, you're getting an image of the work function, the energy needed to remove electrons from the material). But this latest work is something else entirely.

The researchers have improved the resolution and sensitivity, narrowing things down to single-atom tips. So instead of a tungsten surface, we have a single carbon atom at the end of a chain. And instead of the behavior of the electons in a bulk metal, we have the electron density around one nucleus. Behold the s and p orbitals. Generations of students have learned these as abstractions, diagrams on a page. I never thought I'd see them, and I never thought I'd see the day when when it was even possible. As always, I react to these things with interest, excitement, and a tiny bit of terror at seeing something that I assumed would always be hidden.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/16/real_electrons.php

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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess”

Isaac Newton

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Most likely the greatest science book ever written.

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Most critics put at #3, I think it should be #2.

Discovery Magazine puts them in this order:

1. The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) by Charles Darwin
3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (1687)
4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)
5. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
6. Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (circa 330 B.C.)
7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (1543)
8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)



There can only be one.. #1





http://discovermagazine.com/2006/dec/25-greatest-science-books

I highly recommend you all read this books, they will blow your mind, when you think how smart this fackers were, considering the technology at their disposal.. beyond smart.. beyond influential.. one comes around every few hundred years..

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If you are a science geek like me, I recommend this site, they have some pretty cool stuff..

http://www.thinkgeek.com/categories/

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No list is complete without Euclid's Elements. Euclidian geometry? anyone? That is what we are still being taught.

It is the BIBLE of logic and mathematics. There is a reason why that book is the most published science book in the world. There is a reason why peeps like Galileo, Newton, Copernicus used his material.

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/toc.html

geometry was one of my favorite subjects.

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I suppose it depends on who you ask....if you ask biological scientists, it would be Darwin....if you ask engineers or physical scientists, I would put money that they would chose the Principia. Just about every engineer or physicist (the folks that I deal with...) that I have asked put the Principia on top.

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I would certainly hope not. I would hope that a list of the best science books would be based on what their profession (science and math) has taught them to utilize (logic and reason)

a list of the greatest science books comprised by Dicovery's editors and they omit the 2nd most published book (the bible being the most published) in the world? That list already loses all credibility. Gorillas in the Mist? The Journals of Lewis and Clark? Sexual Behavior in the Human Male? They couldn't include Euclid's Elements? Hell, they didn't even give it an honorable mention.

That list is comprised by a bunch of ignoramus. They exclude Elements by Euclid. Euclid's Elements has been a fundamental teaching for more than 2000 years. It was one of the first books printed on a mass scale.

They exclude The Book on Calculations by Balancing and Completion by Musa (dont know his entire name) which gave way to Algebra. It was copied in Latin many centuries after the fact. Not to mention that this list seems very pro western, because it certainly does not mention any of the great works by Arabic and Far East mathematicians, astronomers, and alchemist.

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so far

biologists like darwin

enginners like principia matematica

albañiles like elements by euclid

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Very cool, I love chemistry....cool thread!

Now, is it ok to discuss the god particle?

Isn't the atom collider supposed to back and running this or next month?

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Read that this July and its fascinating as shit. This guy was more a naturalist(ism)-in my opinion- than a scientist. He went right down the middle, no bureaucracy with this facker, which is not what one can say for most.

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Heres your effing aliens!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960807.html

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That is why this is consider the greatest Science book ever written, by most Universities, Scholars, magazines, etc.. Because it is the not necessarily what he discovered, but how he discovered it. He made observations and came to conclusions following nothing but empirical evidence, avoiding completely his tainted/bias previously held beliefs.. (in essence, everyone in the world said and believed the river water was moving east, but his observation and conclusions told him that the water was actually moving west.) By not letting his biased nature corrupt the evidence, he single handedly made discoveries that change the world before his eyes (not years after like other big scientists), and discoveries that to this day have been proven true by everything from fossils to DNA.


P.S. he was no naturalist (in fact the opposite), he was nothing more and nothing less than a true scientist.

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Again, learn from mr. darwin and steer away from bias; for you he was a true scientist, for me he is a naturalist(ism).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)

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I will not repeat the difference between science an philosophy to you now or ever again, you know it.. end or argument

If he is a naturalist to you, then kudos for you..

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Moon is coldest known place in the solar system

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Genetic seamstress uses molecular fingers to tweak DNA

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Dude you are the one that that had a problem with me calling him a naturalist(ism), and now you say kudos?... hhmm consistency is a virtue . You are being redundant. ANd why do you keep bringing up philosophy jesus Christ, isnt this a science thread? Enough with the philosophy already, its getting quite tiring. Its not my fault you cant distinguish what one is saying with what you think one is saying. And stop being afraid of the word "philosophy" just because it appears it in a statement/title/etc. doesnt mean its philosophy,.... right Mr. Issac Newton?

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