School science should be more tabloid – it would inspire kids to memorize approximately the natural worldMy least favourite subject at school was science. Chemistry,with all those vile-smelling elixirs and lurid (shocking; sensational) powders. Biology – dissecting frogs and anatomising leaves. Physics, incomprehensible. The teachers were dry, or the subjects drier.
I have changed. Since I discovered the extraordinary truths of relativity,in my 20s, I have been fascinated by science, and even as I struggle to understand it. The magic we all lose in childhood as our imaginations reconfigure to acquire in the adult world is reborn in science. To understand that time can go backwards,that objects increase in mass as they approach the speed of light, and late down in time relative to an observer, and are just a few of the facts that are so odd as to almost qualify as mystical.
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Source: theguardian.com