Ideal Gas Laws

still thinking about how I showed this to Colin and Woody and encouraged them to take chemistry and physics in their junior and senior year...

and that just makes me think about education...

rather than Ideal Gas Laws, I think if Charles and Boyles Law... or the relationship between pressure, temperature and volume...

and kind of telling Colin and Woody how so much of our knowledge is the last 100 years... but is it... or is it the application of 19th century science???

if you were to drop names... Copernicus, Newton, then I don't think it is fair to drop just say one name a century... whose name would you drop... Lavoisier/Priestly, Pasteur, Dalton, Darwin, Mendel, Maxwell and finally Thomson discovering the electron...

that brings you up to the 20th Century...

makes me think the 19th century was the real explosion that took us from animal power and cave men to all kinds of technology... I don't think of Einstein as really changing technology...

it was 19th century chemisty, genetics and the electron really changed the world... I think of the 20th century as one of accuracy... precision manufacturing...

20th century computers are speed... but day in day out pasteurization saved lives... I mean the discovery of bacteria etc... and I think we'd still have computers etc. without Einstein... we just maybe wouldn't have nuclear weapons...

that would be an interesting novel or thesis... stop scientific knowledge at 1899... unlike the book by Edward Bellamy... LOOKING BACKWARD... just take what we know in 1899 and refined it without the 20th century theoretical additions... how much is
19th century... maybe we wouldn't have anti-lock brakes, but we'd have good brakes...

what if we stopped all scientific knowledge and all theory at 1899... but we could use everything known then in a technological sense... does DNA and cloning really matter to us??? do we use our knowledge of DNA in everyday medicine???

I'm not trying to be a Luddite...

anyway, just superfluous thoughts... just thinking maybe so much is superfluous...

but then again, that is to be human... to be above survival... animals don't have superfluous thoughts or activities... altho I think they do have "play"...

Lilly and I talked about that... that Colin and Woody "play"...

:)


well, maybe I'm off the subject...