• Question: What would the world be like without scientists and science???

    Asked by The-legit-one! to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 18 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by RKO out of nowhere, Flounder2000.
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      Sarah Harris answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      A very sad place indeed 🙁

      But more seriously, scientists and science have been around for an enormously long time. Without them, we’d be living without electricity, without medicine, without many of the things that make your life and mine more comfortable. We wouldn’t understand what makes up the air we breathe, the cells in our bodies, or why the stars shine. I think the world would seem a lot smaller without science.

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      Angela Stokes answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Very boring……we wouldn’t have the excitement of pictures from space, we wouldn’t be able to fight disease, no electricity means no TV or X-box…oh no we would be much worse off……and what would all of us scientists do instead?

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      Ian Cade answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      It depends what you mean by science really…

      If you take the only slightly broad view that a scientist is someone who observes the world around him and based on these observations creates a model of how the world appears to work (by model I mean a simplified description that make it easier to make predictions about how the world is likely to change)… then humans have always been doing this! These early theories may seem a little speculative at best (involving mythical creatures dragging the sun overhead or rescuing it from the underworld each morning) but they were still efforts at trying to understand the world based on observations.

      Alternatively you could take Newton as the first scientist (as in the modern way of thinking about science) so… the world without science is easy to imagine… it is just what things were like in the early 1600s and before.

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