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Everybody knows that biologists are the ones doing real science. They look under microscopes and see how life works firsthand. But any chemist will tell you th
by debbiedowner 6y ago
Everybody knows that biologists are the ones doing real science. They look under microscopes and see how life works firsthand.
But any chemist will tell you that everything the biologists see is really down to chemical reactions, all those behaviors are the function of electrons being transferred and molecules changing shape. Yes, chemists are the ones doing real science. They weigh things, measure the temperature and pressure of their reaction vessels, and see the effects of all the chemicals that interact firsthand.
But any physicist will tell you that everything the chemists see are down to electrical interactions, they their chemical models are just the crude implementations of the laws of nature that only physicists understand, studying them in colliders and syncotrons and seeing the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Yes, everybody knows that physicists are the ones doing real science.
But any mathematician will tell you that the physicists simply take the most beautiful equations and strip away all the elegant details to a crude approximation, and say these basic objects represent well the simple experiments and measurements they do. Only mathematicians who understand the fundamental rules and symmetries of the universe can truly understand the universe through the study of equations that reflect how everything works. Yes everybody knows that mathematicians are the only ones doing real science.
But any Logician can tell you that a mathematician is just applying axioms and predicates willy nilly to get to some expression that piles together fundamental truths in such a spaghetti heap that the beauty of the real knowable rules of existence are lost. The mathematicians merely apply the findings of logicians to reach much more trivial and applied goals. Yes, logicians are the ones doing science.
But no. EVEN a biologist, knows, a logician does not do science.
- denzil_correa 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/ :-)