flux atoms molecules radiation Consider the above metaphor to describe the revelations recent scientific discoveries from viruses and prions in the genetic world to the quarks and gamma radiation of the sub-atomic world, modern science today is counter intuitive and less understandable by more and more people today than ever before.
When searching for simplicity at ever smaller levels of material organization, scientific experimentation has discovered complexity instead. At decreasing levels of organization there is less clarity or predictability than was promised a century ago. As this process of abstraction in biology and pysics occurred, fewer and fewer people could fully grasp the meaning of biological, chemical, and physical existence.
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Our physical world's smallest components seem less and less tangible today ased on the works describing science of these 20th century authors:
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| • | Brecht | Geocentric ideas were eclipsed in a revolution of rational-empiricism. |
| • | Mayr | Special, fixed and progressive creation is an inaccurate description. |
| • | Lewontin | We have had the mathematics all wrong, probability is the key. |
| • | Margulis | Since we have had the taxonomy all wrong, nature has eluded us. |
| • | Kaku | Hyperspace eludes us because we are only three dimensional survivors. |
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Depending on your perspective, either God or the devil dwells (or both dwell) in the details!
The details of modern physics, chemistry, geology and biology reveal that hidden in the very small things, are clues the the beauty, the agonizingly ancient, and the functionally superb world in which we dwell.
Michio Kaku, physicist, insists that we are now experiencing a convergence of three revolutions.
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Consider the work of the unseen:
Gravitational constant
Sufficient water, oxygen and sunlight
The disequilibrium of atmospheric gasses on Earth
A menagerie of organisms that make the place function at an optimal level
Hopefully we will always have the good sense to, admit our errors, change our mind and care for the things that instinctively care for us.
Describing C. P. Snows' Two Cultures.
Kenneth Boulding on many clashing cultures.
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