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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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