Is Science an Amalgamation?(revised edition)

Is Science an Amalgamation?(revised)

An essay by Salifu Mutaru

So I now have two-thirds of the metal coil of a heater submerged into water in a plastic jug, ready to prepare a cup of coffee.  I need just a cup, not the whole volume of water in the jug.  I need the water faster to get me reading and sipping.  When will the full jug of water get hot?  Hmmm.  I'm not a scientist, but can I think through this?  Can science answer this?

I was silent for a while.  I was not talking but building a set of thoughts and imagination about how to get my cup of hot water before the whole jug of water gets hot.

Water is made up of tiny independent units called molecules.  Each water molecule carries within itself two atoms of hydrogen bonded to an atom of oxygen.  The convection currents according to the thermodynamics of a fluid explain: when heating fluids, molecules closer to the source of heat attain a higher energy which causes their acceleration and displacement from their original position of random vibrational motion, just as the reverse will do the opposite (a moving particle generates heat directly proportional to its momentum).  When the water molecules attain a higher temperature after absorbing heat energy, the molecules expand and bear less density.

A bit of chemistry here, but physics takes over again.  The expanded molecules, having a lesser density can not remain at the same depth with the fairly cold molecules; rather they will have to float over the cold molecules (a body will float when its density is lesser than the density of the fluid in which it is placed and would displace - the principle of floatation).  So in time I should have the water just below the surface getting hot before the molecules at the bottom.

I expected my pondering to come up true but it was four minutes already, and the water only fairly warm.  Then it hit me; if the molecules around the heater gain energy, bounce around, and float up to the surface, then the molecules remaining very close to the heater should themselves attain greater energy which may affect my expectation.  If I’m right, then those molecules might be escaping to the surface carrying along with them all the heat they absorbed.  The convectional currents are causing the movements of the energetic water molecules to help heat my water, but again they are causing the very heated molecules I needed for my coffee to escape.

NOTICING

What is noticing? , what is the essence of noticing
This food for thought: its deep.........

The Unfamiliar thought indicate mind's recognition without identification; but Familiar thought suggests not only a recognition but also an identification in relation to psychological or associative memory. In fact, in the familiar thought there is no interval between recognition and identification. It is mind's identification in the midst of perception that causes distraction and a diversion of attention. In the moments of experiencing if one could remain with the unfamiliar then there would be no distraction. One would know a totality of attention
 Thought breaks the flow of experiencing and changes it into an experience....and we are trapped into the past and future feel. Present, which IS, is overshadowed........In fact we ARE!
Kind of deep....yes but Just try to watch in silence, how mind functions. Slowly the mist is diluted

BEAUTY AND PERCEPTIONS

Often we smile at the sight of a person, an animal, an object, or other respects of nature as a sign of satisfaction, pleasure, or attaining a meaning of the characteristics we harvested from the observed. As to what we have seen in the source of this feeling, it depends on us, because another person observing the same thing may not find the joy we felt.
As a culture of thought, most believe the artist has more than any other to utter all that is beautiful about our nature. True beauty has interpretation which leads to attractiveness or emotional well-being. As a matter of fact, beauty is subjective and resonates to one’s own meaning of his observation (Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder).
Taking beauty as a physical law, obeying the principle of relativity; every observer’s conclusion is correct, depending on his frame of reference (taking frame of reference to mean what one expects to observe as beauty). In the sense that, if a man sees a lady to be ugly and another sees her to be pretty, they are all right. This is the magnificent attribute beauty has, and it’s the only missing ingredient in art. Art itself is a beautiful thing, studied and applied with group of laws expected to be seen in its manifestation. Quite rough in science; beauty is the meaning you give to something.
Scientists believe the brain is the reason we can all decide what beauty is. We the scientists believe there is a neurological connection between our mind and what we perceive as beauty. We can postulate that, this may have been due to evolution. If this is true, will it mean all organisms on earth went through the same depth of evolution?

The answer to this question will be very beautiful.
The cock needs to roost and show off its colorful tail feathers to attract the hen for mating. The predator is attracted by its prey, the man sees a hill and he is soaked in an emotion to write. With all these, we believe there is a connection between two for one to experience beauty. Because of this, many people dress for external admiration but not to satisfy themselves. If this is true, then there is a lot more beauty we have not discovered, a lot more smiles, a lot more satisfaction and meaning to our universe.

As I wrote this article, I decided to find some beauty in my TV. I halted, sat gently on the couch as I carefully studied the TV. It was off, and all I saw was the size, shape and colour. I took the remote controller and just before I hit the power button, ideas came in. I asked myself,” how does the remote controller communicate to put the TV on?”

There should be a special diode called a sensor that is able to transmit particular frequencies of electromagnetic radiations, known as infra red.

Infra red is a light wave, therefore should obey some basic expected characteristics of light. To test for reflection; I pointed the remote controller to a mirror and kept changing the angle the mirror made with the remote controller (glancing angle). My thumb was still on the power button. At a particular angle, the TV responded and was out of power. I tried again and the power came back. I could see myself smiling with no joker around me.

I thought; if the remote controller is giving out infra red radiations as signals, then there should be a circuit in the TV that is converting the electromagnetic radiations into electronic signals to be comprehended by the TV. I corrected myself; that the remote controller has no sensor, but a LED (Light Emitting Diode) which is able to generate and emit light with very low frequency that makes it invisible. And the TV rather has a sensor which is stimulated by radiations from the remote controller; often photo cells that give out electrons when hit by light. (Photoelectric emission by Maxwell plank and completed by Albert Einstein). I could feel the power of the coherence between my bits of knowledge and my pleasure to observe. The TV is so beautiful.

As I smiled I could see myself smiling wilder, I was answering the question; why doesn’t infra red from my body and the sun operate the TV?

Probably, this may be the reason the frequency of the remote controller is that minimal. Its frequency is so little that bodies around the TV can only produce radiations whose frequencies are beyond that which is comprehended by the TV, a deep conscious thought by the manufacturers. Now I was actually laughing, my eyes glared across the room, my dimples deepened and my teeth all out, seeming to search a bite. I wished there was some around to understand the reason for this happiness, but there was no one apart from you reading.

The laughter faded as I thought again; why can’t my remote controller communicate with my brother’s TV. Could it be that the signals are coded by the manufacturers?

I reached my computer and ‘googled’ out that my thought was just perfect. All manufacturers have secret codes added to the commands (signals) from the remote controller. If absent or perhaps different, the TV fails to understand the command and remains not operated. I was all cool now; after all I just dug out a lot of beauty from my TV and its remote controller. I walked towards the TV to put it off but again I had to answer a question. Why doesn’t the volume button put the TV off and the colour button change the channels. This time I didn’t find it easy; I sat back on the couch; my left hand clung to my left lower jaw as I still held the remote controller in my right hand.

A shower of thoughts just flooded my brain. I was thinking that the whole circuit in the remote controller might be made of tiny circuits connected commonly by the parallel method. In the essence that every button pressed represented a key or switch to a tiny circuit. All the basic circuits are supposed to be independent of each other, so as to produce different signals. I concluded that each button, each tiny circuit produced different intensity of radiation or different number of flashes form the LED. So if the LED for my TV is flashing out infra red radiations twice for volume control, it should flash differently for colour control. Likewise, hitting the button should begin the command by closing a tiny circuit as lifting the thumb or any other finger used, should open a tiny circuit to end its communication with the TV. Thus if I press the volume button, the circuit for volume begins to communicate with the TV, and stops when I lift my finger to open or put off the volume circuit. I think I love my TV.

Beauty is one magnificent thing that keeps people in theism and materialism into search for facts of what they preach. The theist believes beauty is one fact that explains the existence of an eternal being whose imagination is judged to have been poured into creation of a beautiful world. The materialist will not accept this. The materialist thinks even with no controller on the gradual metamorphosis of the world, there is no rationality that explains the world would have been ugly. His reason is that; our minds tell us what beauty is, and no two people will always see same things to be beautiful. If there is an eternal being somewhere who created a beautiful world, then we should always see things to be equally beautiful as they were created. But this isn’t true. We don’t all see same things to be beautiful.

The theist is true, and so is the materialist. The beautiful thing about our minds is that we can choose the one to believe, and no one can judge us apart from the last day believed by the theist. I was deluded by these two distinct thoughts from two sets of people. So I asked one last question; how beautiful is the mind?

So beautiful, we don’t even know what it is, and few of us confuse it to be the brain. Our mind, our power, the driver of our thoughts is so beautiful. Its beauty we can’t see, neither can we taste nor hear of, but we use. Its perfection that leads us to remember the past, observe the present and imagine the future is so complicated. We can’t use science to explain the creation of the mind, because we can’t see the mind. There will be no samples for experiment, hence no conclusion to drive us to the answer to the question: what is the mind? There must see a magnificent being out there to plan and create our mind and that makes me a theist. Again the beautiful thing is that you may not accept my idea for being a theist, because my meaning may not resonate with yours.

The best you can do is to think about the beauty that is in you. Whether its your cute face, silky hair, good body proportion, your complexion, your intelligence, faith, ability to show gratitude, to write, to talk, your pleasure of finding things out, and finally your power to love. There is a lot of beauty that is hidden in you and around you. My TV showed a lot of beauty around me. Keep thinking of that positive side of you, so you can attract more beautify in your life.

If a persons claims you are ugly, the beauty here is the fact that the person actually thought of you. Never cast energy in things you don’t want, they are the ugly ones. Focus on the joy that comes into your life; the hugs, the wealth, the love, the gratitude, the respect and the beauty.

All these I know because, you are the beholder of the images you keep in your mind.

Aesthetics, a broader subject carries within itself; art and taste, to create and appreciate beauty. Beauty is beyond this.

Take this: the next time mum scolds you, keep joy lit in your heart as you ponder how the sound waves reach you from her. You will see how beautiful it is not to retaliate.

For me, the beauty in me is my ability to love people around me.

Beauty is realized when noticed and appreciated, and our ability to notice and appreciate, is subjected to our perceptions

What is the beauty in you?

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

                                             THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

I remember when I was a child , about 8years , I used to think of building my own helicopter.
In my head, I will practically bring to birth the image of the helicopter with the interior switch and everything I could think of .
I realized since I had never seen what it looked like below the dashboard of the helicopter and didn’t even know what all the gauges  and indicators on the dashboard represented.  My thoughts drifted towards how I was going to make the helicopter move.
Because I know I could connect cells to a motor and cause it to wheel , I thought  of how I could connect a lot of cells to cause the “fan” (as I used to call it) on the helicopter to move.
My helicopter was in the form of wood , because at that time I barely understood how metal, as strong as it was could be carved to such a shape.
Everyday I found new ways in my head to cause my helicopter to conform with the idea of what it really was.

Another scenario would be how I thought  to myself at the age of  6 that people had been becoming through some magical means into our room and then into our TV.
I thought for many days how this could be.  My father wont allow me touch his electronic gadgets because he presumed I was too touchy, but yet still I succeeded in touching  and turning the back of the TV to find the portal through which they minimized and went into our TV
As time passed I gave up , until one day when my father  mistakenly touched the aerial out of its position and all the images on our TV went out blank.
I was surprised and thought of what had happened for many days. I later concluded the aerial must have something to do with the images on the TV.
Time taught me bit by bit the rest I needed to know.

As funny as these stories may seem, there are a few ideas I will like to draw from them and enlighten you.
Revisiting these past events now (14 years later), I realize whatever idea or thought I ever conceived , I tried to make sense out of it using my knowledge or whats more my understanding.
Apart from my understanding, my beliefs seemed to tell me what was possible and, and what wasn’t.
Now the whole principle and idea of science as a study is defined by the scientific  method.

What is the scientific method?

Conception
Science is first a conceptualization of idea.
The birth of a new idea, could be in many as these three forms; emulation, a could be better and a problem.
Before I continue with the conceptualization concept, I will want to clarify something.
Science as we all know it, can be defined in many ways……but as far as we can all understand, we would all agree is a search for something. A search to find the truth , truth in what ?
It’s a search to find truth in our every conception.
Conception is the first and foremost instigator of the whole science process and without it there is no search at all. Since If you don’t see something  could be emulated, or conceive a problem from tops of your reasoning you think worthy of solving ,then there will be no science at all, since no search will begin.
So we can then define science as the search for truth in every conception and the scientific process, formulates and tests the validity of this conception.

Noticing and drawing conclusions

The scientific method.
Before any conception is made there is one stage in the scientific method that causes a beginning . Our ability to notice…..to become aware of…..to become conscious of something. Noticing depends ones ability to observe and draw meaning  from the objet being observed
The two means your ability to watch something carefully or pay close attention to something and realize what it is that is happening.  In actual fact until you are able to notice , there will  be no conception and no search for truth. I will have no reason to search for which portal the people on my TV took into the TV until I noticed it was awkward to have real people on my TV without knowing how they got there.
There is always a probability of a misconception, yet until we notice , until we doubt there will be nothing to prove
Therefore the first stage of the scientific method will be our ability to notice
I could possibly list the whole scientific method I know of , but I believe when one has the ability notice, something is started and that is what is most important.

Drawing meaning from what is being observed

Further after  noticing and doing further investigations and experimentation , one comes to the last stage of the process where he falls on his own experience to make meaning of the data gathered.  If not even so we are all prone to using our personal experience, in terms of knowledge ,beliefs and perceptions. (during the time I was thinking about building my helicopter , even in forming the image in my head, I didn’t see how a metal as hard as it was could be forged into such a shape, so I decided to use wood. Now this is  where the fault lies, because then, even if the people the conclusion of the test of the validity of the conception is shared with, have the same perceptions and beliefs then a lie will become truth.

More can be said of the scientific process but I wish to drift from elaborating on the process (.....suggest links and books to elaborate further and get to a more intricating of what the scientific should be...)
“Scientific method is not a recipe: it requires intelligence, imagination, and creativity. In this sense, it is not a mindless set of standards and procedures to follow, but is rather an ongoing cycle, constantly developing more useful, accurate and comprehensive models and methods
Scientific thought therefore only proceeds to guide reasoning and questioning , in order to help us understand the principles of nature in a more exact detail”.
If science is to help us understand the physical principles of nature, an understanding which we can only conceive through the non-physical, then there is something yet unexplored of the scientific method.
The scientific method when fully realised will be an eye through which all principles can be unified, from which all understanding can be drawn. The spaces in between and from the distances where thoughts ponders(which is the non-physical), a conception is birthed , and an understanding of this conception is drawn from the physical.
This means as long as our physical barriers and perceptions exist we will refuse to see the whole truth that lies therein in our conception,

The scientific method consists in splitting up everything into minute divisions and parts and to examine each division and part separately, but its synthesis is not the perception of a thing as a whole, it is only the summation of its parts. That something which gives the quality of wholeness always escapes through the meshes of the scientific net~Subodh Kumar Misra

The scientific method will undoubtedly continue to evolve  , but the end  to which it must come to, is what I wish we all, should explore further.
What will then cause this evolution to be whole, and cause the creation of a complete principle that helps us see the whole truth in every conception.

These are my thoughts , whats yours?

References...
Wikipedia
Suggestions to further read
Science and common sense
The Scientific method