Did you know?

Did you know that in Brasil they call Limes Lemons????!?!?! I'm going to double check this with Eduardo.....

Here's a funny joke that Thomas, (A teacher from Sweden told me)

What do you get when you have a million, million microphones?

A megaphone - think about it nerdlingers!!!!!!!!! Hahahah!

I managed to catch the end of Gron's lecture on Western Scientific lectures, (I was busy finishing some work for my Working Group) and found his summary fascinating.

From what i could gather he had gone through the development of Western Scientific thought starting from the Greeks who espoused a world view that the world was like an Organism to the Enlightment period which saw the world as Mechanistic - like a mechincal clock to the present day Science which is Complementary. (My apologises if this has come out a bit messy. I will try to get the link from Gron has he has transcripts of his lectures)

My understanding of the last 10 minutes of the lecture is that with the development of Quantum Mechanics in the early 20th Century, the way we should view 'Nature' or the world around us should not be the Enlightment method of logical, deductions or arguments which derive from the idea that the universe is empirical.

We should consider the Quantum Mechanic perspective which says the answer depends on the questions we ask. (i.e. Electron interference - when is an electron a particle or a wave? It depends on how we measure it. - Again i apologise if my arguments are really poor. I refer you to the Feynman's lectures as he gives a brillaint explanation of how electrons can/cannot interfere with each other!)

I think the important thing is that it has given me some food for thought and i will investigate this more...............