RooseveltsGhost: Science!!

Hyperion1001 08.11.11	Richard Dawkins gets on my nerves sometimes with his weird pseudoscience stuff but 2 was a great man.
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	You mean his philosophy that isn't grounded in science, or for his (potentially hyporcritical) railings against pseudoscience?
clercqie 08.11.11	Dawkins is often annoying... Cool guys on here :) I'd say quantum mechanics is as revolutionary as relativity, and you cannot underestimate the impact of Newton. Whithout him, those new and shiny theories wouldn't exist.
Hyperion1001 08.11.11	His philosophy stuff (particularly some of the things he said in the god delusion). He has some good points and i agree with him on a lot, but sometimes he gets too wrapped up in his own ramblings.
eternium 08.11.11	Fuck yeah science.
MuhNamesTyler 08.11.11	What about Bill Nye?
Hyperion1001 08.11.11	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
clercqie 08.11.11	Oh god...
MuhNamesTyler 08.11.11	BILL! BILL! BILL! haha
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	I'm inclined to agree with you clercqie about quantum mechanics being as significant as relativity. However, since that field is highly technical and contrived entirely from experimental evidence, I can't really get into it at my current level of knowledge. Although Brian Greene applies the fundamental concepts of QM to cosmology with some pretty brain-busting realizations. You should read his books if you're into that stuff.
djocelot 08.11.11	dont forget michael faraday, ludwig boltmann, and max planck!
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	If I was to extend this list, I would definitely add both Boltzmann and Plank. I've never read any of his work, but isn't Faraday the British dude who won the Nobel Prize for Electroweak unification?
clercqie 08.11.11	* Boltzmann ;) And Nils Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger and Louis de Broglie. And Kepler and Copernicus, and... And if you get relativity concept-wise, quantum mechanics shouldn't be too difficult either. Yeah, I've heard of Greene. Should read stuff of him indeed
clercqie 08.11.11	Faraday did a lot of the ground work of the classical Electromagnitism theory. As did Maxwell, that guy is one of the greatest physicists ever
iFghtffyrdmns 08.11.11	nerdiest shit I've ever seen and no idea why Bill Nye isn't on here, but fuck yeah for including Aldous Huxley haha
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	I've got mad respect for Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Tycho Huygens and the like, but they studied the motions of large bodies and said, "here's a fuck ton of math, prove me wrong". Consequently, their work may be worthy of respect (and grants), but it doesn't have that sort of dramatic insight into the nature of the universe that people like Einstein, Hubble, Schrodinger and Heisenberg provided. Also, wasn't Bill Nye a comedian who has hired to pretend he was a scientist? I admit that he is a profound influence on my life, but that would make him.... sort of phony, like saying John Rambo is my hero.
clercqie 08.11.11	"here's a fuck ton of math, prove me wrong" Haha, so gonna use that argument on my next exam :D Also, the real importance of Copernicus work is (to me at least) that we people realised we're not the center of the universe. His work was very important from a philosophical point of view
ilikeforests 08.11.11	Richard Dawkins... unnerves me, but humongous props for Carl Sagan and Feynman. Listening to Feynman is pure inspiration, he's the reason why I put aside time for extra-curricular studies. Sagan's done a lot more than Cosmos too, people seem to forget he actually wrote a lot of supremely-apt shit about blazing cannons. edit: also I feel I should add- I literally have a folder on my desktop called "feynman" and I've spent many a summer night opening soundbytes from it and smoking weed till I pass out.
djocelot 08.11.11	I feel like Richard Dawkins is really eloquent and brilliant in his writings but gets way too angry at people in interviesws. who's stoked on Neil Degrasse Tyson hosting a new cosmos?
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	lol yeah I've done the same with Feynman's 'Fun to Imagine" interviews on YouTube. The rubber band one is gold, as is the one where the interviewer asks him why magnetism works and he gets irritated and goes off on the guy about the goals of scientific explanation. Sagan also has a special spot in my heart because of Contact, which was my favorite movie when I was young. Imagine my surprise when I find out later that goddamn Carl Sagan wrote the novel it was based on. Clercqie, I see your point on Copernicus. I guess I don't feel as strongly about him because his impact was so contextual, so tied in with the ignorance of the historical period that it doesn't strike me as hard as it did, say, the Pope.
iFghtffyrdmns 08.11.11	SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE!!!!2@!#@$!#@!!5 (had to do it)
ncguitar 08.11.11	There's proof that Albert Einstein listened to Death Metal.
RooseveltsGhost 08.11.11	He clearly knew a lot about things that were fast and or heavy.
Hyperion1001 08.11.11	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP4-ZtzF1Vg ^ my favorite scientist.