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Science has always been one of the voices of reason in the background of my thinking. The scientific method has always seemed like the best way to answer any question. Chemistry is demonstrating scientific principles at the smallest physical level.
Science has always been one of the voices of reason in the background of my thinking. The scientific method has always seemed like the best way to answer any question. Chemistry is demonstrating scientific principles at the smallest physical level.
Science has always been one of the voices of reason in the background of my thinking. The scientific method has always seemed like the best way to answer any question. Chemistry is demonstrating scientific principles at the smallest physical level.
Science has always been one of the voices of reason in the
background of my thinking. There are so many fields of study that
are rooted in science that is amazing to me that religious studies and philosophy courses still fill up so much space in academic course catalogs. That is because the scientific method has always seemed like the best way to answer any question. Of course one would have to be willing to admit that there are questions first. And then one should be willing to change their answer; their mind, when new evidence that has been proposed that has been carefully run through the trial and error steps of stating that there is a problem, formulating a hypothesis as a possible explanation, and then experimenting and observing over and over until the best theory wins. It blows my mind when reading how many new things we discover using the scientific method; which means that until that moment we had a fixed idea, an answer, that was wrong but workable as a solution until that last experiment proved it needed to be updated. Chemistry is like the teeniest, tiniest most basic way to use the scientific method, in my humble opinion. Chemistry is demonstrating scientific principles at the smallest physical level that we know of so far, of course; as we keep discovering smaller and smaller particles and how they interact and what those reactants produce. Chemistry is occurring everywhere, all of the time. The site I Fucking Love Science is one of my favorites and in its July 24, 2015 page an interesting article on hydrogen peroxide popped up. Apparently chemists are discovering that in their search for bio signatures and the molecules that could have powered the forming of the first forms of life on Earth, what most of us know as hair bleach may actually be so powerful a substance that is, and was capable of producing the amount and types of energy that starting life evolving, at the chemical level. While Hydrogen peroxide is produced for hair dyeing and for manufacture in
plastics it also exists naturally and when it reacts with thiosulfate it
is a potential energy source for what scientists term The RNA World, which is the term for how the thermal heating systems are believed to have worked at the bottom of the ocean where the chemical reactions originated and the RNA molecules grew and multiplied and thus began laying down the foundations for the energy to supply the growth of life, much as sunlight does today. The nature of the chemical reactions involved has been the source of much speculation, but this experiment conducted with computer modeling on the H2O2/S2O23- reaction used ten coupled linear equations and taking over 10 months to solve is a substantial hypothesis. One of the chemists on this project, Dr. Rowena Ball of the Australian National University, said that Hydrogen peroxide has just enough oxidizing power to cause mutations every now and then, which would drive evolution. That is quite a hypothesis and an amazing discovery at the chemical level. I am just barely comprehending the basics of Chemistry this semester, and at what I feel is like a preschool level in comparison with how much I need to understand to have a working grasp of it. I have always loved hydrogen peroxide for its bleaching properties and now I know that mixed with the right sulfates the power of evolution has been right there in my ponytail all along. No wonder I used to feel like a young female Poseidon, a goddess of the sea like Amphitrite when I would walk out of the ocean with my peroxide and sun bleached hair dripping onto the sand after surfing Oceanside. It was like I was a newly evolved creature testing my land legs; thanks Chemistry!
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