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On The Shoulders of Giants

Nathaniel Libatique

Science and Society Topic 1

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 A brief history of science

³If I have seen further thanother men, it is because I havestood on the shoulders of giants.´ (Isaac Newton)

Cumulative Progress - Moderncivilization built on Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christianworldview

± the orderly intelligible universe Distinct Method of Inquiry 

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Nature is inherently

ordered and can be

apprehended rationally ius civile, ius gentium, and ius

naturale. ius scriptum and ius non

scriptum

Wisdom 7:22b-24,30b

Photos from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pythagoras, Solomon and Roman_law 

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Hall of Fame

Galileo

http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/l emur.com/gallery-of-antiquarian-

technology/worthies/faraday-1200-scale200.jpg 

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Parallels

The beginnings of numbers and number 

theory and RS A

Gutenberg and Google Plato¶s concept of Essence vs. Object

Oriented programming

F 

ind your own parallels! 

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Phytagoras

Plato

Newton

Einstein

E ssence

Geometry 

The Calculus and the Mechanistic World 

Special Relativity 

Aristotle

 Aesthetics

Euclid

Fermat

Principle of Least Time

Feynman

Quantum E lectrodynamics

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Ideas and Theories Develop

Triangles Time and Tides

Phytagorean Theorem

Special Relativity: time is not absolute, butthe speed of light is!

Principle of Least Time: light thinks?

QED

tlab = tufo / Sqrt[ 1 ± v2/c2 ]

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kallos/feynman.htm

Light goes

everywhere

Richard Feynman

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³The Universe in a Glass of Wine´ A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will

probably never know in what sense he said that, for poets do notwrite to be understood. But it is true that if we look in glass of wineclosely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the windand weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination addsthe atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its

composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and theevolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in thewine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, theenzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is foundthe great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of muchdisease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the

consciousness that watches it!If in our small minds, for some convenience, divide

this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -

physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology,

and so on - remember that nature does not know it!

So let us put it all back together, not forgetting

ultimately what it is for. Let us give one more finalpleasure: drink it and forget it all!

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 Aesthetics

Truth is beautiful « symmetry

But anything that breaks ³symmetry´ is

even more interesting « maybe a newtheory emerges!

Energy and Momentum

time and frequency

electric and magnetic fields

voltage and current

electric charge and magnetic monopole

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The Memristor 

Voltage Current

Magnetic

Flux

Electric

Flux

R

C L

?

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Innovation is ongoing« and it is

happening globally! Baldomero Olivera

Ben de Lumen

Leon Chua

Gregory Tangonan

Dado Banatao Sam Bernal

Conotoxin

Lunasin (from thePilipino word lunas for 

cure) is a novel cancer 

 preventive soy peptidewith a uniqueepigenetic mechanism

discovered in our lab in1999. It has now been

found in other seeds aswell.

Drug delivery, fighting cancer, optical communications, nanotechnology, graphics

chips, biomolecular engineering

HP¶s Memristor 

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Readings from our text

F. T. Limpoco, ³ A brief history of science´

J. Garcia, ³Science and the scientific method´