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Notes for
9/9/14
Class 3
Tuesday
September 9, 2014
We risk becoming
a nation of suckers
See: Sagan, Carl. 1996. The Demon
Demon--Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballentine
Press, 475 pp.
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Science:
The organized quest to understand
the natural world
Thales of Miletos: Invented
(discovered) Science ca. 600 B.C.
There are laws controlling nature;
Those laws can be discovered.
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Scientific Method
Observation
Hypothesis
Experiements
Theory
Prediciton
Karl Popper
(1902-1994)
As Wolpert reminds
us, it is important to
keep
an open mind,
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but, he argues:
Perceptual Gestalt
& Paradigm Shifts
What a man sees depends both
upon what he looks at and also
what his visual conceptual
experience has taught him to see.
In the absence of such training,
there can only be a bloomin
buzzin confusion.
Kuhn, Thomas, S. 1970. (2nd Edition). The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions. Chicago Univ. Press, 210 pp.
NASA time
exposure
(Winter sky in my back yard)
1,500 to 2,000
Galaxies;
Each with some
200 Billion Stars!
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Stanley Miller
The Miller-Urey
Experiment (1953)
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Protoplanetary Disks
in the Orion Nebula
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Life in Extreme
Environments
Professor Thomas
Gold (1920-2004) of
Cornel University
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