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Your scientific topic of interest

What is your favorite scientific field

  • Chemistry

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Material Science

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Astronomy

    Votes: 17 34.0%

  • Radiology

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rigid body Mechanics

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Fluid Mechanics

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Thermodynamics

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Electromagnetism

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Quantum theory

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • Neuron Science

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Medicine

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Evolutionary biology

    Votes: 8 16.0%

  • Genetics

    Votes: 5 10.0%

  • Geo physics

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specifie)

    Votes: 7 14.0%
  • Total voters
    50
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Master_Ghost_Knight

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arg-fallbackName="Master_Ghost_Knight"/>
Self explenatory poll.

Edit: since the original poll was unbalanced I have edited a litle bit, this will probably reset the votes.. Sorry :?
 
arg-fallbackName="obsidianavenger"/>
haha, so far biology is quite popular.

more specifically i am fascinated by biochemistry and genetics. though cognitive science/neuroscience are a close second/third. and i have an idle interest in physics because its so odd nowadays....
 
arg-fallbackName="Aught3"/>
obsidianavenger said:
haha, so far biology is quite popular.
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Hardly surprising it could probably be split into a dozen different fields so it covers quite a lot :lol:
 
arg-fallbackName="Doc."/>
I'm for medicine, specifically endocrinology, though I don't know much of it yet, more I learn about it more interested I get.
 
arg-fallbackName="Master_Ghost_Knight"/>
Ok i have edit the poll to make it more balanced.
Sorry but votes get reseted if you edit the poll option, please vote again if you have already done so.
I can not add more option, so put other if your fiel has been excluded.
 
arg-fallbackName="MRaverz"/>
Genetics or medicine or evolutionary biology?

I like all three, they overlap in so many nice ways. :lol:
 
arg-fallbackName="Unwardil"/>
Yeah, if I had to pick 1, it'd be Evolutionary Biology, but it's all a nice smorgasbord of stuff.

One thing I do wish actually is if there were fewer specialists in the scientific field, sort of renaissance scientists who actually worked a little on finding how the different theories all overlap. Granted, I understand the difficulty involved there as there is just a huge volume of information about anything that one needs to familiarize themselves with and maintain current in for any of those given fields, but over specialization tends to lead to dogmatic thinking, which is a hindrance to creativity and ultimately, to progress.
 
arg-fallbackName="obsidianavenger"/>
Unwardil said:
Yeah, if I had to pick 1, it'd be Evolutionary Biology, but it's all a nice smorgasbord of stuff.

One thing I do wish actually is if there were fewer specialists in the scientific field, sort of renaissance scientists who actually worked a little on finding how the different theories all overlap. Granted, I understand the difficulty involved there as there is just a huge volume of information about anything that one needs to familiarize themselves with and maintain current in for any of those given fields, but over specialization tends to lead to dogmatic thinking, which is a hindrance to creativity and ultimately, to progress.
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thats what philosophers of science are for?
 
arg-fallbackName="Unwardil"/>
Well, no, I mean be scientific about it. Not just making shit up because it sounds logical but actually test things out. Scientifically. Not philosophically.
 
arg-fallbackName="obsidianavenger"/>
Unwardil said:
Well, no, I mean be scientific about it. Not just making shit up because it sounds logical but actually test things out. Scientifically. Not philosophically.
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they can inspire scientists to make connections they wouldn't have made before and perhaps spark collaborations?

i am not sure what and interdisciplinary experiment would look like anyways.... could you elaborate?

also, there are new fields, such as astrobiology or biopsychology that reside on the boarderlands of several established sciences due to their subject matter...
 
arg-fallbackName="Unwardil"/>
obsidianavenger said:
also, there are new fields, such as astrobiology or biopsychology that reside on the boarderlands of several established sciences due to their subject matter...
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Yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about really, basically looking for inspiration in seemingly opposite fields. One such example hypothesis is one where Black Holes become analogous to the offspring of universes and themselves grow into other universes. Those which have the makings of further black holes get 'selected' and so produce more universes and those that don't have the right conditions wink out in a matter of microseconds. There is of course no proof whatsoever that it's true, but it's a good phase-space-exploration type of mental exercise if nothing else and it can lead to questions you never even knew existed as a result.
 
arg-fallbackName="australopithecus"/>
No 'all of the above'? :D

I went for astonomy, mostly because it's what originally got me into science as a kid and as a (very, very, very) amatuer noob astomoner it's something I still have massive interst in. Personally, there's nothing quite like seeing things billions of miles away with a telescope/binos and it being so close you think you could almost touch it. It's awe inspiring.
Unwardil said:
One such example hypothesis is one where Black Holes become analogous to the offspring of universes and themselves grow into other universes. Those which have the makings of further black holes get 'selected' and so produce more universes and those that don't have the right conditions wink out in a matter of microseconds. There is of course no proof whatsoever that it's true, but it's a good phase-space-exploration type of mental exercise if nothing else and it can lead to questions you never even knew existed as a result.
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Is that the Lee Smolin hypothesis? I've been reading The Life of the Cosmos and The trouble with physics recently and they're extremely interesting to say the least. The idea of universe by natural selection is quite cool.
 
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MRaverz said:
Everything is a form of mathematics. :D
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There's always one :lol:

Mathematics is the language of physics just like English was the language of Shakespeare. That doesn't make Hamlet a form of English - the described is much greater than that which was used to describe :D

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PS: Yes, I know, considering my pseudonym one might expect a different opinion, but the truth of the matter is that I couldn't figure out a good way to translate Maxwell's equations :geek:
 
arg-fallbackName="Case"/>
Psychology. Ha. Though some of the rest are pretty interesting when presented in a way I can understand.
My knowledge and understanding of chemistry for example is very very basic, but I can marvel at the results.
 
arg-fallbackName="Unwardil"/>
australopithecus said:
Is that the Lee Smolin hypothesis? I've been reading The Life of the Cosmos and The trouble with physics recently and they're extremely interesting to say the least. The idea of universe by natural selection is quite cool.
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Yup, that's the one. Yeah, it did sound like a very cool idea to me too.

I'm mostly waiting for someone to come up with a theory that ratifies that explains the relationship between relativity. THERE'S a mindscrew that I'm sure any number of scientists would just die in order to even come up with something plausible.
 
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