Earth Day

Earth Day is a day to raise awareness about how we should help the environment in mutiple ways. There are may campaigns and projects going on to spread the knowledge. However, most people don't pay attention to these things. They know that they have to help the environment, but they don't actually put it in to action. This should be solved so that earth becomes a more healthier planet. Organizations and even schools can make a difference by planting more trees, recycling and using less cars.

Motivation and Science

What motivates you to learn the chemistry that we are covering this year?
Chemistry has been interesting and informational for me so far this year. The material we are learning in the class has been getting to me pretty well. I think this is my biggest motivation to learn chemistry. If I did not get what is happening in class, and what Mr. Grdinic and the class is saying, I wouldn't be studying Chemistry as hard as I would. I would lose interest and put the least effort I can put in.

Also, the grades are part of the motivation. If I did not have to get A's, to meet the goals my parents, family, and my self has set, I wouldn't be so eager to learn Chemistry. This is an example of Extrinsic motivation. But it's also a goal I have set, so it's also a Intrinsic motivation. I want to do well, and be recognized, so this is what motivates me to learn not only chemistry, but also other classes and subjects.

The Nuclear Power

I don't think we should use Nuclear Power for our sources, because we are losing so much things by using it. Yes, we are saving the environment, and it may rescue us from the global warming. However, we have to face other things that we do not even know how to deal with. The radioactive waste can greatly affect us in a very dangerous way. That doesn't mean that we should just watch and see our planet die with contamination. But, the Nuclear Power can't be our alternative to the energy we are using. Researches can be done, but it will take many years, and a lot of money. So, at this point, I'm against using Nuclear Power.

Quantum Mechanics

The Quantum Mechanics blew my mind.
It was such an interesting yet confusing topic.
I have never learned anything like it in any of my subjects.

The video about 'the Double Slit Experiment was so fascinating.
How could electrons, which is in a form of particle act as wave?
How can it spilt itself, then bounce off of each other and make wave?
Actually, at this point, I understood it could be that way: electrons behaving as waves.
However, when they said the electrons behaved like the particles like they knew they knew they were being watched, I thought it was joking.
How can that be possible?
How can watching or observing affect what's happening?
Well, I guess these things exist in subatomic level.
After I realized it was real, it amazed me, how observing or measuring could interfere with the data itself.
This leads to the meaning that probability holds at the subatomic level.
Particles can be existed in all state, until it is measured.
Measurement cancels the probabilty, because as you measure you are interfering with the particles.

The best example for this is, the Schrodinger's Cat.
I actually got how this could work.
It really amazed me.
A cat is placed inside a closed box.
It could die inside or live. There's probablity to it.
Cats are living organism, which means we cannot predict what they are going to do.
Because of this, we cannot open the box to observe the cat, because you cannot predict that cats will ignore us completely and act like we are not there.
The cat is somehow going to react to our presence, which means we are messing up the probablity of what the cat might do when it is alone.
Wow, this is very wordy, but this is how I understood it, which could also mean that I don't understand this completely.
Who doesn't?
This concept, or prediction, or whatever it could be, is so out there that we cannot possibly understand.

Did you know?

I actually have seen this video some time ago, shown by my Spanish teacher.

At first, I thought it was something about China and its growth, because that's the first thing they talked about.
However, as the video went on, I was shocked at all the facts that were stated.
Especially the facts about the growth of IT (Information Technology).
There was one information that left a strong impact on me, which was "by 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilites of the human brain" and "predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilites of the entire human species".

After the video, it made me question, are they stating the truth?
Also, it left me to think because it gave me a question at the end, "so what does it all mean?"
I guess it wanted us to know that there are a lot of things we overlook.
In other words, there are things that we don't know about that are extraordinary.
And it's not about difficult information such as science, math, or other things that we would actually have to be taught, but things that are all around us.
The computer, the network, populations, etc., and how they are affecting us, ordinary people.