#AskAnExpert The Philosophy of Science
I wrote a term paper on the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas C*** and it was his writing, along with that of Karl Popper, that informed a lot of my thinking about how progress happens in science. And while I took that course almost three decades ago, what I learned then has become even more relevant in recent times as a combination of misinformation and political agendas have damaged the trust and credibility of the scientific method
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:51
Hey, Aris, thanks for posting this. You know, I grew up in a family that had conversations about physics, biology, and chemistry. My father was a physicist, my sister was a chemist. And we ali took biology, and we would have these. So two of them were professional. Then the third, biology was just an academic study. But we were to talk about what what's the, what's the, the mother of all science? Is it physics? Is it chemistry?
But maths is simply kind of it does exist on its own, if you will, without any laws of maths, theorems of maths, they will hold true regardless of there was a physical world out there or not, right? And if you look at chemistry and biology, they build on top of the foundation of physics, right? Chemistry is kind of once atoms, molecules start interacting with each other, that's when chemistry kind of kicks in
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And a lot of that has been done because of a lot of books that have been written where by authors not really understanding or misunderstanding or misinterpreting and making it seem like something that it is not and that, unfortunately, is almost doing a disservice to the science. Because you'll find a lot of wise sounding people who start using terms like quantum mechanics and konophysics and relativity
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:32
And they probably won't even be welcome based on the vibe of the five people that are just in this rat's nest. But when it comes to quantum physics and the imagination around it and how it's been sort of extruded into fantastical worlds upon worlds and the impossibility and the mystery and the possibility all that stuff that we connect as laypeople it sounds very exciting to your point to see uncertainty as a foundation because then the sky's the limit