Oct 19, 2005 20:35
I'm reading about molecular reactions and diffusion. Most scientists claim that things that they dont have a reason for are "random". Diffusion is random movement of molecules like balls on a pool table is crap. I have a really hard time beliving this. Like the ancient concept of Spontaneous Generation. People decided (primitave scientific communites decided) that things which arose from (assumingly) nothing and were "random". They belived meat grew maggots and trees grew mushrooms. It wasnt until Leeuwenhoek invented a microscope and termed microbes "animalcules" (which I think is hysterical... animalcules) that people began to recognize that there are things that aren't in front of our eyes. So why now with so much progression do people say protons and etc are the smallest thing when they behave so differently in situations and especially becasue some have higher affinitys for each other. There is something smaller than that it just can't be explained that is making them behave this way. I'd like to be the one to explain it someday hopefully. Maybe I've been watching too much "Lost" but I feel now that everything happens for a reason, I never thought that before. But seeing how everything reacts physically makes me think that mentally and spiritually there are reasons for everything too. Because molecular biology is just a metaphor for everything in life. In every realtionship, every dynamic there is somthing happening at the molecular level that is if nothing else a metaphor for life. If anyone is interested I can give my lecture about how ionic bonds are like abusive relationships and how covalent are like healthy ones.
My point is that people write off things they don't know about as random instead of being honest and saying "we don't know yet". This is one of my problems with the scientific community. I don't know. I love this shit though. Seriously. You all want to know how much I have changed since high school get this. I am DYING to read Warpped Passages about string theory (written by the first woman to get tenur and be director at harvard in the physics department, or maybe the whole science dept?? I forget) and e=mc2. You don't even know, if it doesn't get here tomorow I might have to go buy it.
Mike is at the gym right now. This is what I do when he isn't home. (Mike at the gym???? I know) I almost fucking DIED when i saw him in TENNIS SHOES and GYM SHORTS. WHAT??? Who is this person?