Inspirational Science Thread.

[Anonymous No.4560649]

Post videos, stories, and other tib bits, that inspire you to keep doing what you do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

[Anonymous No.4560655]

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

[Anonymous No.4560659]

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And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

-Aaron Freeman.

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[Anonymous No.4561367]

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I now see far more clearly than every why people pursue religion far more than science. Our emotions are only compatible with one of those when we understand nothing. After understanding of religion you're in a world that will never end, your own world. After understanding a little science, you see some sadness in truth, and know that may not be the truth even then.

I abandoned idea of god for purely philosophical reasons when I was young. Not religion, just the concept of a god. I was sad, very sad, at the time, to have done that, but I would never accept false ideas for happiness. I to take whatever I got for it, be it being shunned as outcast or whatever it takes to walk towards truth. We've all made that very decision.

After being so long into this, I do find happiness in it, but it's not the same. I see more clearly as my eyes lost their sharpness. I hear more as my ears hear less. I stand in a time before which I have already died. Perhaps happiness isn't the word. But this emotions, understanding, is powerful, but only after knowing so much, and yet so little.

But people are far to chained by primitive emotions...seeing only a soft spot for their next step on a path to a dead end, and not the rocky floors leading to mountains high.