This is the story of a girl who loved
dinosaurs for their strengh and physical capabilities since she was quick
tempered, she also adored space because she wanted to know what are those
glowing sparkles in the darkness of the night sky. As she was growing up, she
discovered that her passion around dinosaurs was mostly focused on how they
disppeared, that means the asteroid which hit earth millions of years ago,the
object from our solar system. So you can say, her interest was targeting space.
She is now at high school and things
have never changed, they even got stronger because she started feeling she
could act, she could turn her dreams into reality, satisfy the expectation of
the little girl inside her. That girl was and is me. So why do I love science?
And most importantly, why should we love science?
Why do
I love science?
If we talk about physics, it is obvious
that it is the science of the universe in a way that it explains how everything
around you works, is orgenized and what created it, what laws lead it..... It
is not about how high a voltage can be or how many electrons are in a current
but, it is rather about how can you use all these information to make human's
life easier.
If we talk about biology, then you
are the proof of how much it is
important because, being healthy means a better knowledge of yourself as a set
of thousands of cells and millions of neurons composing just your brain. Again,
it is not a matter of analysing the components of a protein but how can these
proteins save lives and preserve this fragile being: the human.
If we talk about technology, just look
at the screen through which you are reading these lines, gaze at your clothes
made by machines, the means of transport you take to go study or work. It's all
the fruit of the huge and quick technological development we have been facing
these decades.
Now come the Maths, it seems like you
are spending your hole life looking for "x" but this science teachs
you logic, or what we call logic, that means how to link ideas to come up with
a coherent result. It also requires imagination and an open mind so that you
are able to think out of the box when dealing with a certain situation or
problem.
Those are reasons that boost me to love
science but not being passionate about.
What pushs me over the edge and makes me
happy at the same time, what empowers me to work harder in these fields is the
relation between those aspects of science.
From one side Maths are abstract so
physics turn them into reality in a way that it applies them in the world we
are living in. And Maths give more precision to physics, if you want to built a
rocket, you have to know gravitational rules but also you need measurements,
for instance, you need to calculate the velocity...
From another side, biology give to your ideas and inventions a humanitarian side, if we want to send humans to Mars by 2030 you certainly need to understand the body, the demanding body, its limits but also its energy and capabilities.
It seems like we ended up around space
exploration and that is why I find it one of the most appealing fields you can
ever work in. It is the science that makes the ends meet. The ISS(International
Space Station) is a huge laboratory orbiting around our planet mixing physics
with Maths, spicing it up with biology in one of the greatest things technology
has ever come up with.
Why
should we love science?
The answer is quite easy, you have everywhere a bit
of science from the If we talk about biology, then you are the proof of how much it is important because, being healthy means a better knowledge of yourself as a set of thousands of cells and millions of neurons composing just your brain. Again, it is not a matter of analysing the components of a protein but how can these proteins save lives and preserve this fragile being: the human.
However, you are not obliged to love
science, you don't have to like it and "practise" it every second of
your life, but you are obliged to know it, to discover it. And to clarify the
things, the science I am mentioning is not necessirly the one we study at
school. For me, science is anything that can improve humankind, is
anything that can allow you to exist.
That is why most philosophers are also mathematicians and physicists.
In conclusion, we are science because we wouldn't have known that
much about ourselves without this permanent curiosity glowing in ourseleves and
wouldn't print this second organs to save people around the globe.
In collaboration with Nour.
In collaboration with Nour.
