Nonsense is Science

“A man of science is a guy who is scientific and logical.”

Perhaps this is what most people thought and agree. However, I think otherwise. To me, “a man of science” should be illogical, imaginative, creative, love nonsense, and perhaps with high curiosity.

Perhaps, let me explain to avoid any misunderstand between what I’ve thought and what you’ve interpret.

Illogical? Science? Doesn’t that make sense?! I must be crazy, but perhaps those that are crazy are potential scientist, unless you psychotic killers then it is a different stories.

Sometimes people says you are crazy because they can’t get what you are really thinking … May be ~ Okay come back to Illogical.

How to relate illogical in science when everything in science need prove? This is where nonsense comes in. When it is still illogical, it is nonsense, but when the illogic idea is proven then it becomes science.

Take an example, the Wright Brothers who have successfully invented a real airplane on 1903. Who at that time would believe that they really will success? Perhaps some would think that is a bullshit idea … and look now almost every time you gaze up to the sky, you can see airplanes flying up high.

Sir Issac Newton, who suggested that the Earth has gravitational force which hold all the objects on it. Who would believe that in his century? People use to think Earth is flat and not round. That nonsense Newton said, that crazy idea Newton has, have become a famous law or theory in physics.

Galileo galilei, who said that Earth is round. No one believes about that and thought that he is crazy. He has cause a bit issue and now it has become a facts. Nonsense of the community, an imaginary thought said by many, ends up to is a scientific fact.

Imaginative and creative, should be in advertising or some other field instead of science right? Hmm … if a scientist who can’t imagine is even worse than a blind eagle. Most of the thing in science are tiny and most of the time, when you are trying to find something new, you will need to imagine a little bit. Is like when you have a problem, and you need to solve the problem, the question, but the question is never been asked, so how are you going to solve it? There is no reality photo about it, so here is where you imagination comes into play. Sometimes, something can’t really be seen, like evolution, is impossible to witness right?!

Scientist, most of the time is detective. They track something that already happens. Whatever discovering we found now is already happening. So, it is impossible to turn back time and witness the beginning of those stuff, how they begin, how they have started. Hence, what we can do is just imagining what had happened, and what is really happening and what will happen. With only imagination might not works, creativity must play a role side by side. Imagine with creative might give us a better hypothesis and better image, sometimes helps in writing protocols.

So, that’s how imagination and creativity comes into play.

Nonsense, sometimes talking nonsense might give you some idea indirectly. For instance, we say plants are green. So, you might think why they are green? Chlorophyll is the answer but why some are red? So, nonsense might trigger your sense of curiosity. Sometimes, by thinking nonsense out of existing fact make new discovery, For instance, why some praying mantis is green? Why chameleon changes colours? Some might thought they are nonsense, some might say of course they are so because they are born like that. However, there are all scientific reasons and explanation behind them. If no one have every speak nonsense, I don’t think there will be any discovery or invention.

Perhaps curiosity and nonsense come hand by hand, who knows …

That’s all for this post, perhaps the example I gave may not be convincing enough, but the message in this post is very subjective, is like knowledge you can write it down, pass them in term of words but experience you can’t … this is more to experience and personal thought, is kinda difficult to express. However, hope there is no misunderstanding.

Regards

By,

~Panda~