Who here studies science?

[Blessed-one]

study.. studied.

i spent a year learning environmental science. It was really fun, especially the part where we had to maintain an aquatic system.

but the statistics caused such a headache.

 

[fallen^sparrow]

The human body is such an amazing and wonderful "machine" that I really enjoy studying and knowing its systems. I see guys getting excited over their cars/engines/tools... but facts are anything we can engineer/manufacture pales in comparison to God's simplist of creations. The best we can do is try an mimic His handiwork in the production of our most advanced systems. For that reason I'm kinda partial to biology/physiology/kinesiology.

fallen^sparrow

 

[Deamiter]

I'm in physics. I agree that biology is CERTAINLY an amazing field, but it seems much too much like stamp collecting to my taste. We understand so little that these days, we're still just cataloging what everything does (or even that it exists) and there's too much guessing for me.

Throw a verifiable equation that relates to our world at me, and I'll be gone for a month trying to disprove it (or just understand it as I'm still an undergrad). I'll have a BS in physics in May.

My favorite field is optics or acoustics, but the BEST is sonoluminescence (look it up on google) where you concentrate sound waves in a tank to suspend a bubble, then up the amplitude to make the bubble glow! It's like making stars in a glass of water! A couple years ago, we finally got the procedure to work, though it's rather finnicky. Some scientists even hypothesize that there might be a fusion reaction going on in some bubbles (in specific conditions) but it's still rather unlikely.

I'll stop now or I'll go into detail and derail the thread. Fiziks is Phun!

 

[quantumspirit]

anyone know a good source for quantum brain theory? I can't find anything at Barnes & Noble, and hardly anything on the Net.

 

[Deamiter]

You can find hardly anything on the net? I got hundreds of interesting articles just searching "Quantum Brain Theory" in Google! Searching "Quantum Brain Theory Book" in Google got me fewer good links, but here's a great link that has a whole LIST of books on Quantum Theory (on the first page in my second google search).
http://www.fetchbook.info/The_Quantum_Brain.html

You probably want to start a new thread for questions like this in the future just so you don't derail this thread. Stick to the topic and your questions will get more answers, and specific threads will stay on the topic they advertise!

 

[Aeschylus]

anyone know a good source for quantum brain theory? I can't find anything at Barnes & Noble, and hardly anything on the Net.

Quantum brain theoy? Isn't that one of Roger Penrose's ideas? I think the convetional view on this at the moment is quantum effects play only a small role in the brain.

 

[freak_of_today]

I'm in physics. I agree that biology is CERTAINLY an amazing field, but it seems much too much like stamp collecting to my taste. ..... Fiziks is Phun!

I agree. I'm a physics student, curretly studying VCE Unit 4 doing thinks like kinematics and we just started a unit on torque and net forces in relation to structures and materials.

I struggle with it a bit but I think it's good fun some of the time!

 

[Mechanical Bliss]

I studied geology primarily in college. It's a great subject and it was great to be able to travel all over the country and into Canada for academic purposes. It also gave me an excuse to have a relatively decent sized collection of rocks, minerals, and phanerozoic fossils.

 

[meebs]

im about to study environmental science at university....

 

[ThePhoenix]

I study engineering, which doesn't count

 

[Philosoft]

I was a psychology/sociology double major in college. Now, I am certified to teach psych/socio, biology and chemistry at the middle school/high school level.

 

[Stellar Vision]

I'm majoring in Physics right now. Still got a ways to go.

 

[tamtam92]

I'm studying electronics, physics, mathematics, computer programming...
I agree biology is really interesting, but it's true that when studying it you just have to remember things a lot and understand a little.
So I prefered mathematics, because I like that sort of thinking... But studying in France, and not being a maths genius, I didn't want to be a teacher so I'm going to be an engineer... and by fate, I arrived in an electronics school...
What i prefer is quantum physics... That's absolutely amazing... Sometimes I stand in awe before what i discover (during lessons...). And there are links with linear algebra, which is my favorite subject in math.

 

[Ataradrac]

I majored in Geology in college. As part of my requirements, I had to take biology, chemistry and physics, and I took astronomy for fun.

I enjoy science.

 

[coquí]

I'm a biology major, so I've had quite a few sciences courses. But then again, I have been known to read psychology and biology textbooks for fun...

 

[mystery4]

Umm.. when you said study, studied, did you mean at a college level? Cuz err, at the moment, I'm just finishing High school, so I've done upper school Chemistry and Phys. Year 12 TEE Physics at them moment, just started on the last topic before final exams, Atomic Physics. But I found that sound was a great topic, particularly when I'm a musician and it helped me with TEE music as well. (eg, harmonics and the strings, open pipes and closed pipes, as well as the accoustics and the way in which an orchestra is set up -difference in noise (untuned percussion) and music (tuned percussion and all the other instruments)). I find that having done physics has helped me to understand and appreciate this world we live in the more I hear and learn about it.

 

[AV1611VET]

Not I.

 

[2consider]

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology about 30 years ago, does that count?
I wouldn't say I study science, but I read all the time, much of what I read is scientific in nature.

After my schooling I didn't study science at all. As time went by, I began to learn just how much of the science I was taught was wrong, or highly questionable, that in turn got me interested again. Those pesky creationists made me reconsider a lot of what I thought I knew. Now I'm one of those pesky creationists.

 

[2consider]

Umm.. when you said study, studied, did you mean at a college level? Cuz err, at the moment, I'm just finishing High school, so I've done upper school Chemistry and Phys. Year 12 TEE Physics at them moment, just started on the last topic before final exams, Atomic Physics. But I found that sound was a great topic, particularly when I'm a musician and it helped me with TEE music as well. (eg, harmonics and the strings, open pipes and closed pipes, as well as the accoustics and the way in which an orchestra is set up -difference in noise (untuned percussion) and music (tuned percussion and all the other instruments)). I find that having done physics has helped me to understand and appreciate this world we live in the more I hear and learn about it.

Before you graduate, I'd like to share something with you. It's a name, John Taylor Gatto.

Here's a link to start

 

[Dr GS Hurd]

Who dredged this up?

I earned my U. Cal. doctorate in 1976. My first research fellowship was as an undergrad in nuclear geochemistry. So was my
second. My third research fellowship was in nuclear geochemistry in graduate school. Just to break the pattern, my 1976 doctorate was in anthropology, my first industry job was as an analytical polymer chemist, and my first professorship was in medicine. One of the more popular seminars I led was on statistical analysis. I of course published in psychiatry. I also have publications in math models and topology (graph theory). I have published in geochemistry and biology.

Most of my science work was oriented to archaeology. I particularly enjoyed engaging students in active research programs. Dozens of my undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate students were first published as my co-authors.