Mathematics-the language of science

science was transformed in the seventeenth century when it was learned that nature can be analyzed and described mathematically .

when the ideas of science are expressed in mathematical terms,the are unambiguous . They don't have the double meanings that so often confuse the discussion of ideas expressed in common language . when the findings in nature are expressed mathematically,they are easier to verify or to disprove by experiment. *the methods of mathematics and experimentation led to the enormous success of science .

The basic science-physics

science is the present-day equivalent of what used to be called natural philosophy was the study of unanswered questions about nature. As the answers were found, they became part of what is now called science .

The study of science today branches into the study of living things and nonliving things,the life sciences and the physical sciences . the life science branch into areas such as geology ,astronomy,chemistry,and physics.

physics is more than a part of the physical sciences,it is the most basic of all the sciences ,it's about the nature of basic things such as motion , forces , energy, matter , heat , sound , light and the composition of atoms. Chemistry is about how matter is put together, how atoms combine to from molecules , and how the molecules combine to make up the many kinds of matter around us . Biology is still more complex and involves matter that is alive . so physics supports chemistry,which in turn supports biology. The ideas of physics are fundamental to these more complicated sciences . that's why physics is the most basic science . You can understand other sciences much better if you first understand physics .

about science

What would it be like to live in outer space? At first thought we might think this questions is for astronauts , particularly those who have experienced space walks , but in second thought, we realize this question is for everybody,for all of us are in outer space.

At every moment we are riding on our home,planet earth which has been in outer space from day one, hurtling completely out f human control around and around the sun.

photos of earth taken by astronauts have greatly influenced the way we see our home in space -a relatively small life-supporting garden planet .we can't control earth's motion,but we have learned the rules by which it moves -rules that were painstakingly discovered by investigators throughout much of human history.

The study of nature's rules is what science is about.these rules,which are surprisingly few in number,explain such things as why earth is round ,Why its oceans and sky are blue,and why its sunsets are red .The richness of life is not only seeing the world with wide open eyes,but knowing about the connections between things.To know nature's rules is to add richness to the way we see our world .

The roots of science go back to before recorded history , when humans first discovered regularities and relationships in nature. One regularity was the appearance of the star patterns in the night sky. Another was the weather patterns during the year - when the rainy season started or the days grew longer . People learned to make predictions based on these regularities and to make connections between things that at first seemed to have no relationship . More and more they learned about the workings of nature.that body of knowledge ,growing all the time,is part of science , the greater part of science,However is the methods used to produce that knowledge.science is a way of thinking , as well as a body of knowledge .