Tuesday, November 20, 2012

I can write a summary and my personal reaction to the video: How simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries by Adam Savage.


in this video Adam Savage starts explaining that one of the funny things about owning a brain is that we have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto the facts and stories, and as we get older , it only gets worse, thing stick around for years sometimes before we understand why we're interested in them before we understand they are inportant to us. then he made expamples about 3 importants Persons: Richard Feynman, Eratosthenes and Armand Fizeau. he talked about their discovers and how they did it, for instance Richard feyman when he was young  he went for a walk with his father, his wagon and a ball and Feyman noticed that every time he pulled the wagon the ball went to the back of the wagon, and he asked his father,
"why does the ball go to the back of the wagon?", and his dad answered, "that's Inertia" and faymen wanted to know what was that, so he asked him about it and his father said ""that is the phenomenom of a ball going to the back of the wagon" but actually nobody knows,and that simple idea lead him to earn degrees at MIT, Princeton, he solve the challenger disaster, he ended up wining the nobel prize in physics for his amazing diagrams describing the movement of subatomic particles, and this could not have happened if it weren't because of the conversation with his father, and that is how a simple question  could carry us out to the edge of human knowledge and the same happened with Eratosthenes he had made many contributions to science but the most important began in a letter that he received as the librarian, The last example is Armand Fizeau who was an experimental physicist in paris, his real job was confirming others people results,that is why he was familiar with galileo's  experiments.
Personal Reaction:
We have the same capacity to discover new things  like Richard Fayman or Eratosthenes but we have to be a little bit curious because science is not a little black box science in fact it is a open field as Savage said we can do it because as they changed the world we can also do it just we can't give up.






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