NATS 1560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Strongest, Atomic Number, Reductionism
9 Jan 2017
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Science: systematic study to obtain knowledge about the natural world, and the knowledge so produced. The purpose of science is to know. The two terms science and technology are often used in pairs and used interchangeably. Modern science is experimental due to observations and studies. We modify the natural phenomenon in order to extract information. Modern science aims to explain the complex phenomena of living organisms by reducing them to chemical reactions of microscopic components that compose these complex systems. It is the reduction of complex phenomena to microscopic components. With modern science scientists become confident that they know their knowledge is correct with technology because they made these apparatuses to do the things that we want. Science depends on technology for acquired knowledge; to know that the knowledge is correct. Technology is seen as the applied science. To change the world not to understand it. To make natural systems do the things that we want.
