PHYS 1061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Science Education
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Though this shows disturbing downward trend of late : the fact that research is done within u. s. Universities (like this one!) is likely: provides opportunities to wrestle with real world challenges using/developing the reason cutting-edge tools and techniques. Seek out these opportunities: gives students solid experience in solving problems. You get out what you put in: science/eng. No better way to master a technology than to employ that technology"s master: an increasingly educated and versatile workforce is (in my own view) essential to continued economic viability. Alternative is stagnation, or playing follow the leader : science and its impact on human thought, science offers fresh, often surprising perspectives. Space and time are wrapped up inextricably together. The act of looking changes the nature of nature. We may have more dimensions than meets the eye. Our place in the cosmos (speck on speck) It"s still an impact. relativity, parallel universes, evolution, possibility of life elsewhere
