I was listening to a presentation about evac chair training – chairs which are designed to get disabled or disadvantaged people out of hazardous fire situations in buildings – when the guy next to me said: “you know what’s really interesting?”
“No,” I said, because the presentation was probably the eighteenth of the day by this very bored looking guy (even though the topic was actually really interesting, and talked a lot about the engineering side of things that I was fascinated by).
“What’s going on in the next room,” he said, quietly. “They’re talking about fire-proof suits. Next generation stuff, my friend.”
a NASA space-suit is designed to protect the wearer from a vast range of temperatures…
If a common man is asked the basic question whether technology is sexy, the chances are high that his answer will be no. Technology may be interesting, engineers may adore it, geeks may love it, but for an average person it just another science that helps them make their life easier. It has nothing to do with the word ’sexy’.
However, if we think a little more over it from the perspective of ’Adult or Porn'industry, we will find that it is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the latest technological development. Video Porn was born right at the time when the first ever moving picture was invented. But its real growth and mass reach through the adult websites is due to the wide reach of Internet as well technological advancement in terms of high streaming videos.
Nothing is sexier than saving money. I personally have an infatuation with the former rugby player who works for the local gas oil suppliers, but it doesn’t help me with my winter fuel bills. What can help is learning some of the science behind creating some home made bio diesel. This is the organic matter equivalent of gas oil, and learning how to make it yourself requires knowing a bit about how engines work. Gas oil is diesel fuel without the dye. The dyes are used to differentiate between the different taxes for home heating oil and petrol for auto mobiles.
Patient handling instructor training is an important aspect of the caring profession. This article really isn’t about that, but let’s use that as an example and show why science is a lot sexier than you might at first think (and we wouldn’t blame you…some of it is pretty hard to get your head around).
A 4 day course designed explicitly to help carers learn how to manually handle patients – such as elderly people in rest homes and the like – it’s something Jane hasn’t been looking forward to. Not because she doesn’t like elderly people or her job, but because she has just finished reading online about Quantum Theory and how mind-boggling it is. All this information – information which Jane hadn’t even contemplated until she stumbled across the first article which got her train of thought going – led to a revelation that there was much more to the world than she had always thought. This meant that when Jane arrived for her training she was thoroughly distracted. Usually Jane got distracted by normal things like what to have for dinner tonight, or the latest plot-line in Eastenders, but today Jane is distracted by the fact that much of what she is seeing is actually more fragile than she would have ever believed. And we’re not just talking about the old people.
Science tells us, on a minuscule level where atoms and the like exist, that there is nothing to stop the ground from opening up and the ceiling from vanishing into a black hole
See, from what Jane has read, it really is a miracle that the ground is hard and she can pick objects up. Science tells us, on a minuscule level where atoms and the like exist, that there is nothing to stop the ground from opening up and the ceiling from vanishing into a black hole. This makes Jane nervous. Pulling down her first elderly pair of pants of the day, she worries for a brief moment that when the old girl does a woopsie, the all of her will be sucked down into the toilet! That definitely wouldn’t get her a certificate!
As the day draws to a close, Jane starts to relax. Mainly because she has done some quick research on her internet phone and discovered that scientists still have a lot to learn about atoms and all of that, and that they are making progress all the time. This pleases Jane immensely; now she knows that there is hope that there will be more answers, she can stop panicking about science and think of it more as a mysterious stranger who is really quite sexy.
The world we live in is there but not there. It is both visible and highly complex – and every step is onto matter which may not actually be there after all…
This is the intellectual mind-boggle that Let’s Talk About Kelvin discusses and investigates. And in Marcus Chown’s expertly well-written world, it’s a voyage of discovery that is both alarming and breathtaking.
I have to be honest, I don’t understand people who don’t like science. I always wonder how this can be true, and if it’s true, how this came to be. I have always found science to be the underpinning of everything I know, so when someone tells me that science is dull I feel like it’s a personal insult. I almost want to break down in tears on the spot.
Fortunately Marc Chown’s book is written with these kind of people in mind. What it does is take examples of everyday things we all see happen everyday – lights go on, the sun go down – and make them unbelievable and mesmerising. Really, it’s a book that every single person on this planet should read, regardless of their scientific or religious persuasion.
Even people who hate complex numerical puzzles and equations will find something to fascinate them and get their teeth into
Another thing which Marcus Chown does in this book – and with the kind of natural ease that is absolutely incredible considering the subject – is make the seemingly impossible-to-understand realms of quantum physics and the like accessible to people who don’t have a clue about the most basic things in science. I know this to be true because on the way into town just last week I got into a scientific conversation with a man who was a cabbie but said he used to work for Red Diesel Scotland .
“What do you do for work then, mate?” he asked me.
“Science stuff,” I said.
“Really?”
I said really.
“I read that about Kelvin book. Interesting stuff. Not as interesting as working with red diesel, but still, some good stuff in it.” I’d like to say this was the only time he’d talked about this, but…
“Indeed,” I said, and smiled widely.
Lastly, the best thing about the book is undoubtedly its amazingly down-to-earth nature. Even people who hate complex numerical puzzles and equations will find something to fascinate them and get their teeth into here. Which for me makes Marcus Chown’s novel a worthy addition to a genre that isn’t exactly liked too much by the main-stream. Now that’s not something I say or write every day, I can assure you.
Every once in a while, it is important to look back at our scientific heritage and history and understand the problems that people faced when they first discovered the basic rules and principles of science. One constant feature that stands out is the reliance on nature to understand scientific principles.
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