FOR SCIENCE!!!!

I think this is the end of my puns

Science is the process of understanding how the world around us works. In this way, science is universal. It is knowledge anyone can figure out because it all exists already. The world is working, wether we understand it or not. 

One topic discussed in class was universal nature of science. It exists regardless of who you are or what you intend to do with it. Elements combined in a certain way will react the same, regardless of the intent of the user. This becomes a double-edged sword. While it makes it so that you cannot have one group controlling and limiting all of science to only a select few, it also means that those intending to do harm are able to use science as freely as others. (I realize there are organizations intended to stop this like say the UN or whatever, but the point still stands). In this way, science is a clean slate. It is neither inherently good or inherently bad. It becomes good or bad based on humanity and how it is being used. 

Another element of the universal nature of Science is its application to the other ways of knowing. It can be used to explain spiritual events. For example, it is scientifically proven that we all have our own "energy" so to speak. Now you can chose to see this in a spiritual way or in a scientific way, but it is the same phenomenon. Science can also explain why certain colors look better together, why we find some things appealing and others disturbing, or why some music calms us and other music puts us on edge. 

There are places where science overlaps with sexuality, with personality, with emotional experience, with all sorts of things that we don't think about when we think about science. In this way, science is incredibly universal. 

In this unit I would have like to have learned more about the interesting places science overlaps with or explains things we often think of as non-scientific.