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You don't need to go to the micro or the nano to appreciate the beauty in physical phenomena. Take a rainbow, for instance, or water waves in a canal made by a barge, or shock waves made by a fast beat in open sea.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 04:33:25 AM EST
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Very true, but there are many more layers beneath all of that that are not so day to day.

I find that understanding science makes the day to day alone, awe inspiring. But I'm not sure that is entirely true for the non scientist. A rainbow perhaps yes, or other phenomena that you don't see often.  But ripples, blue sky etc - do people try to look further than what they purely observe, is it taken on board that there's something sciencey behind all that? Or does it just need pointing out?

I found that the more layers of complexity that I uncovered, the more amazing all the really simple things became.


Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 04:44:34 AM EST
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