final course reflection

     My mind has changed about science and the humanities because I look at things completely different now. I never really payed much attention to how science and technology both harm and help the world. Now I look at both aspects. I would have to say I am more of a science person just because as much as science and technology has harmed us, it has also done so much good for us. That includes helping people with dissabilities, saving lives, and making our everyday lives easier in reference to commuting and media information.Promises of technology are advanced phones, faster cars, andcures for diseases. The perils would be the way it affects us physically and mentally. We tend to rely on technology for everything which makes us lazy. Technology is effecting our health because verything is literally at the tip of our fingers. However, even though our life is effected one way or another, it still saves lives and at the end of the day, that is all that really matters. It is ultimately upto someone if they want to use a computer,watch the televsion and etc. The critical thinking blog helped me to understand the course readings because it helped me put out my opinion. The blog asked questions that opened up my mind and let me think about the novels and stories more.

critical thinking blog assignment #8

            The responsibilities of scientists is to better the world. Scientists are supposed to find the cures for diseases, letting us know how a person died which links up with criminal justice. Scientists help us solve everydayproblems which help people live their lives longer and healthier. Scientific progress should always go forward even though there can be consequences that most of us don't want. I believe this because people fear what they do not know. The more you know, the more you feel comfortable about or around something. For example, people are afraid of robots because they aren't around them on a daily basis. With the help of technology they are helping us get familiar with robots so we learn about them. Even if something may be dangerous for all of us I still believe progress should go forward because we won't know about something unless is truely happens. You never really know if something is bad or good unless we experiment. For example, one project that did threaten us was Einstein's involvement in the manhattan project, which was the creation of the first atomic bomb. Yes, the atomic bomb was dangerous and deadly, but he didn't mean any harm by it. Einstein was considered a genius by the masses because he was a theoretical physicist, philosopher, author and is perhaps one of the most influential scienists who ever lived. He also contributed to the founding of relativistic cosmology, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, and the quantum theory of monatomic gas. Another example of scientific progress while acknowledging the complexity of the issue is Fotsch's progression of cars in Futurama. Yes, the cars helped the city pick up a fast pace during a time of depression, but it also caused problems with the environment as far as the ozone layer goes. Global warming harms us because it pollutes the air we breathe, but at the same time cars have changed our lives for the better. Cars help us get to places so fast, and make our lives easier.

critical thinking blog #7

         The scientist who I decided to talk about is Albert Einstein. Einstein came up with quite a few ideas such as the photoelectric effect (which he won the nobel prize for), Brownian motion, special relativity, e=mc^2, and general relativity (which is our current theory of gravity.) He contributed alot to physics and science and disproved Newton'stheories. One project that did threaten us was his involvement in the manhattan project, which was the creation of the first atomic bomb.
         Albert Einstein has been considered a genius by the masses because he was a theoretical physicist, philosopher, author and is perhaps one of the most influential scienists who ever lived. Einstein also contributed to the founding of relativistic cosmology, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, and the quantum theory of monatomic gas which predicyed Boss-Einstein condensation. One of Einstein's achievements was receiving the 1921 nobel prize in Physics for is "services in theoretical physics" and for his discovery of the lawof the photoelectric effect. He published more than 300 scientific works and over 150  non-scientific works. For his greatness, he is considred to be the "father of modern physics" and was probably one of the most successful scientists there ever was.
        Dyslexia was one roadblock Einstein overcame along with getting kicked out of school, his father's death, stomach ulcers, divorce, and his rivalry with Hitler and the Nazi's. Einstein helped bridge the gap between science and humanities. This is proved in the book Einstein's Dreams because he pleased and delighted both scientists and humanists. The author of the book, (Lightman) used simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time, when he was a patent clerk working on his crazy unheard of theory of relativity.