Why science is a supermodel
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.
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