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On The Shoulders of Giants
Nathaniel Libatique
Science and Society Topic 1
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A brief history of science
³If I have seen further thanother men, it is because I havestood on the shoulders of giants.´ (Isaac Newton)
Cumulative Progress - Moderncivilization built on Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christianworldview
± the orderly intelligible universe Distinct Method of Inquiry
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Nature is inherently
ordered and can be
apprehended rationally ius civile, ius gentium, and ius
naturale. ius scriptum and ius non
scriptum
Wisdom 7:22b-24,30b
Photos from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pythagoras, Solomon and Roman_law
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Hall of Fame
Galileo
http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/l emur.com/gallery-of-antiquarian-
technology/worthies/faraday-1200-scale200.jpg
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Parallels
The beginnings of numbers and number
theory and RS A
Gutenberg and Google Plato¶s concept of Essence vs. Object
Oriented programming
F
ind your own parallels!
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Phytagoras
Plato
Newton
Einstein
E ssence
Geometry
The Calculus and the Mechanistic World
Special Relativity
Aristotle
Aesthetics
Euclid
Fermat
Principle of Least Time
Feynman
Quantum E lectrodynamics
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Ideas and Theories Develop
Triangles Time and Tides
Phytagorean Theorem
Special Relativity: time is not absolute, butthe speed of light is!
Principle of Least Time: light thinks?
QED
tlab = tufo / Sqrt[ 1 ± v2/c2 ]
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kallos/feynman.htm
Light goes
everywhere
Richard Feynman
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³The Universe in a Glass of Wine´ A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will
probably never know in what sense he said that, for poets do notwrite to be understood. But it is true that if we look in glass of wineclosely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the windand weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination addsthe atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its
composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and theevolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in thewine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, theenzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is foundthe great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of muchdisease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the
consciousness that watches it!If in our small minds, for some convenience, divide
this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -
physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology,
and so on - remember that nature does not know it!
So let us put it all back together, not forgetting
ultimately what it is for. Let us give one more finalpleasure: drink it and forget it all!
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Aesthetics
Truth is beautiful « symmetry
But anything that breaks ³symmetry´ is
even more interesting « maybe a newtheory emerges!
Energy and Momentum
time and frequency
electric and magnetic fields
voltage and current
electric charge and magnetic monopole
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The Memristor
Voltage Current
Magnetic
Flux
Electric
Flux
R
C L
?
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Innovation is ongoing« and it is
happening globally! Baldomero Olivera
Ben de Lumen
Leon Chua
Gregory Tangonan
Dado Banatao Sam Bernal
Conotoxin
Lunasin (from thePilipino word lunas for
cure) is a novel cancer
preventive soy peptidewith a uniqueepigenetic mechanism
discovered in our lab in1999. It has now been
found in other seeds aswell.
Drug delivery, fighting cancer, optical communications, nanotechnology, graphics
chips, biomolecular engineering
HP¶s Memristor
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Readings from our text
F. T. Limpoco, ³ A brief history of science´
J. Garcia, ³Science and the scientific method´
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