Science madness

            “The laws of Physics are the same in every inertial frame of reference.”  Yeah, so?  Isn’t that obvious? … or at least supposed to be obvious? Those were the thoughts on my mind when I read that law. It’s actually the first postulate of the famous theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.  But let’s face it, are obvious statements like these what turns scientists into nerds? I’m confused.  So Newton says that a body won’t move unless a force is acted on it and scientists go on sleepless nights contemplating it.  Hello, I think I knew that since kindergarten!

            Well, since I am one of those nerds who don’t sleep decoding theories of dead men, it’s only fair that I speak in their defense. If that was all to science then it wouldn’t even be a subject, much less a field of study.  If that was all to science then we would just sit around stating that water cools in cold  weather and call ourselves SIRs and that would have been very realistic – sarcastically speaking.  

            When Albert Einstein stated the theory of mass-energy conversion, he stated something that someone had thought about before but was perhaps too afraid to develop it. So, the genie in Albert came not because he knew it all along but because he wasn’t afraid to answer the childhood questions that troubled his mind. Isn’t that what science is all about? Isn’t it about trying to explain the universe in the best way we see fit?  Although we don’t know what is happening to the rest of the universe, we start by explaining ours.

            Out of Einstein’s famous equation E = mc² we can produce electricity from nuclear reactors.  We apply Newton’s law of motion in literally everything – our vehicles, factories, any machine you can think of. That is what physics merged with engineering does. It makes life easier-better.  I could go on forever about what science does but I guess the 21^st generation can do that pretty well.

            It is a stereotype that science is a hard subject and yes it is hard indeed. It is for the minds that won’t sleep unless questions are answered, minds that will make equations out of the obvious, minds that will transform equations to a better life.  It is hard, but listening to the stereotype makes it even harder. Come on, science is as easy as stating that a computer will remain shut down unless I turn it on keeping the number of users constant of course. Well, if you believe that, welcome aboard and join the fun!