2006-06-19 20:39:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Everything goes "boink"
2006-06-19 20:42:10 · answer #1 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If I understand your question, you are asking whether it happens in sudden events; suddenly (cartoons depict it with "boink") there is an idea or a fact which changes everything, or at least a whole lot of things. Yes, I think it does. The best example I have is the discovery of DNA. The two guys who suddenly realized that we were talking about a double helix opened a vast array of implications which took molecular biology by storm. Suddenly a whole lot of previously observed research results fit together and made sense.
That's what Einstein did when he gave the world a formula by which to measure most of what they had been doing with physics up to that time. Suddenly things fit together, the implications exploded on the minds of the scientists, and after a very short time, on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2006-06-20 03:57:19 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but think of this example.
How many kids use calculators today in school?
How many kids know how to perform calculations on paper with pen or in their heads?
To me that seems like science, in some areas, has made people lazy
2006-06-20 03:43:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know
2006-06-20 03:42:40 · answer #4 · answered by ery 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋