Comments | abygael: Biology, eh?

abygael

Biology, eh?

Aug 18, 2006 22:26

Those of you who know me in real life are probably aware of my general disdain for biology. Now I'm not about to change my stance at all - obviously physics will forever remain far superior - but having been researching and pondering biology for a story I'm currently writing, I've come to realise exactly why I disdain it so.

( Rant - not all that offencive to biology, actually )

science, biology

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phillberrie August 18 2006, 13:36:43 UTC

Hi abygael,

I'm also a Physicist but I did some electives in biology and biochemistry. If your story is a short I would be happy to read it and give you some feedback.

abygael August 19 2006, 06:35:34 UTC

Hi Phillberrie,

It's not finished yet, so I can't say exactly how long it will be, but it is a short story and most of my short stories don't surpass 3000 words. Is that too long?

Either way, I'll probably post again when it's finished.

phillberrie August 19 2006, 06:47:15 UTC

3,000 words is fine. I look forward to reading your piece.

abygael August 19 2006, 06:49:55 UTC

Thanks :-)

niuxita21 August 18 2006, 15:27:06 UTC

Ohh, will you post your story here? You've got me all curious now. :P Plus, science + literature = love.

And that's an interesting rant. I've always liked biology the least too, but at least you have a valid reason...

abygael August 19 2006, 06:28:28 UTC

Oh, I disliked biology long before I had a valid reason...

As for the story, I'll have to finish it first ;-)

lambdapi August 19 2006, 01:28:07 UTC

So tell me about 90% of the mass in our galaxy, Ms Physicist. nobody's ever synthesised an organism? Show me a gravity generator, then. There's a lot we don't know, and people have only been serioulsy biologing for about 150 years. You physics people have been going since the ancient Greeks.

Saying "nobody's ever made a cell molecule by molecule" is saying "Nobody's ever conducted an experiment on pendulums with artificial gravity." Just as physics used what already exists, gravity, and measures what happens to the pendulum, we can use what already exists, a cell, and fill it with synthesised / modified DNA and watch what happens. This is known as cloning. It's just the fucking ethicists bitching that slows down biology.

You wouldn't get anywhere either if idiots with lawyers were claiming that electrons had feelings.

jeebuz_avt August 19 2006, 01:54:58 UTC

Electrons DO have feelings! Physicists just don't care about them. Admit it, if you biologists had the balls you'd have particle accelerators for frogs and things to work out "how fast does a frog have to go before it explodes".

physics, chemistry, biology, in order of increasing greatness ;p
Umm....I think something's wrong here...

abygael August 19 2006, 06:27:26 UTC

That horrifying typo has been fix0rd now.

abygael August 19 2006, 06:26:55 UTC

90% of mass => Dark matter. Someone's even made some (one particular form, anyway, probably the least common kind) in a laboratory.

As for artificial gravity, if you mean the effects of gravity without some sort of large mass present, then we have in fact achieved that. The effects of centripetal acceleration are the same as the effects of gravity and you can experience them at your local theme park.

As for ethicists, yes I agree with you there.

What I was trying to say, though, is that there are fewer fundamental (in a molecule by molecule sense) theories currently in biology than in physics. We may not have isolated any Higgs bosons (or proved that they even exist) but we can make mini black holes in our particle accelerators.

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