Calories and Muscles?
I have a comic strip comic and the calories one is about a family arguing over how many calories are in lite things and regular slices of bread.
Also, the other one is a Ripleys Believe it or Not.. a caterpillar has over 4000 muscles while humans have less than 800.
Are these things real science?
-Sorry if this is a stupid question-
2007-01-31 18:59:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
There are few stupid questions in this forum. Humans have something over 600 muscles, but I have no idea about caterpillars. One might expect there to be far fewer, but the way to do science is to dissect a caterpillar and count the muscles.
Calories are definitely science. A calorie is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. Often, particularly when speaking of food, one uses the kilogram-calorie (without actually saying so), which is 1000 times as large. A slice of bread does have a definite number of kilogram-calories of food value, and you can measure it quite closely by drying it out and then weighing it: multiply the weight in grams by 4.2. You are probably eating around 2,000 calories of food each day.
2007-01-31 19:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that the data are taken lightheartedly but it is still science.
Science, after all, is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, and research be it in natural sciences or social sciences.
Now, knowledge gained from the empirical or experimental data of determining the number of muscles in humans and worms and the determining of calories in bread is still science.
It may not be test tubes and microscopes but it is still science. In fact, the publication and dissemination of scientific data is still part of the ancilliary scientific process.
I understand your point, thinking that if the scientific method ends with a conclusion then that is it. But, scientific method is just part and parcel of the whole area of science.
Or, ok you have scientific data, what do you do with it? Lock it up in a vault so no one can see or hear about it?
2007-01-31 19:22:41 · answer #2 · answered by Aldo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup yup.. Science by simple defination is the systemetic study of nature and the environment. So basically, everything is science. Hahaha.... That's why it's fun because there's lots to discover.
2007-01-31 19:18:41 · answer #3 · answered by Gaara of the Sand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup both are science.
2007-01-31 19:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋