Physics?

Before I get to today ' s post, an administrative note. The reason Mojrim gets his comments published, even though we don ' t always agree, is that he is not a moron. To get your comments published, you don ' t have to agree with me, you need to have something intelligent and interesting to say. -- C.I have actually never taken a single physics course, in high school or college, which I believe does not make me exceptional. But I ' ve had a subscription to Scientific American since I was 13 and I ' m curious, so I try to understand that stuff as best I can. Modern physics is completely mathematical, however, so qualitative explanations are really just a sort of shadow play of what physicists are really doing.  This is really not the case for biology, or chemistry. Yes there ' s math involved but you can get a pretty good intuitive grasp of biological and chemical phenomena without it. In my own discipline of sociology and public health research, we use a lot of statistics, some of it quite complex, but the purpose is mostly to test hypotheses. Once you find an association, you can explain it without the analysis of covariance equations.  What ' s more, findings in these fields don ' t completely upend our intuitions. True, evolution upended millennia of belief, but even though some people reject it, the idea is not terribly hard to understand, if you ' re willing to listen to an explanation. The idea of chemical bonds makes intuitive sense, and you can rep...
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