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chopper 
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Posted: February 06 2013 at 10:15 |
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Chemistry's fun because you get to blow things up (I suppose you can do that in Physics as well). A friend at school once connected his Bunsen Burner to the water tap and cracked everyones' beaker when water shot out of their bunsen burner. He was a local legend who tried to hide some sodium he "borrowed" from school by flushing it down the toilet at home. The resultant explosion cracked the toilet, leading to the headline in the local paper "A flash in the pan"!
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: February 06 2013 at 10:05 |
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^ You are overthinking it. This isn't just about colliders. Physics is the very foundation of everything.
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Roland113
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Posted: February 06 2013 at 09:40 |
Geology mofos! (seriously man, where's the love for the rocks, 8 years of college to become a geologist and we still have to look up at all the 'trendy' and 'relevant' sciences, oh, if your Hadron Collider was so cool where was it when Vesuvius went Pompeii on everything. Yeah, the biologists were wishing the had paid more attention to the geoloists back then) I'll go with Chemestry (cause you need Chem to understand Geology)
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Bluenipper
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Posted: February 06 2013 at 00:38 |
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Biology
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Padraic
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Posted: January 21 2013 at 11:31 |
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Physics, easily.
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Kati
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Posted: January 21 2013 at 11:24 |
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I didn't want to put in the work so instead of chosing science at school thus opted for the fun and easy way out, languages and social studies "The Fun Package"  passing everything without studying with flying colour hihihi... My sister on the-other-hand opted for the opposite she went into medical science from there even went to do Cancer Research  continuesly studying/research etc to keep up with ever evolving science. Good for her I'd say (we certainly need more people like that) but not something for me plus I am against experimenting things on animals inc. hamsters.  |
Besides having a degree in languages I am also a member of 
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Kati
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Posted: January 21 2013 at 11:00 |
I didn't want to put in the work so instead of chosing science at school thus opted for the fun and easy way out, languages and social studies "The Fun Package" passing everything without studying with flying colour hihihi... My sister on the-other-hand opted for the opposite she went into medical science from there even went to do Cancer Research continuesly studying/research etc to keep up with ever evolving science. Good for her I'd say (we certainly need more people like that) but not something for me plus I am against experimenting things on animals inc. hamsters.
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Icarium
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 16:38 |
Dean wrote:
aginor wrote:
what is a bilogical explotion, plague bomb |
A fart. |
I am good at that
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Dean
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 16:16 |
aginor wrote:
what is a bilogical explotion, plague bomb |
A fart.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 15:56 |
^ 
aginor wrote:
what is a bilogical explotion, plague bomb |
When a head explodes ... like in Scanners.
Now, if I was asked Phys. or Math, ... I'd probably say Math.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 20 2013 at 16:08
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Dean
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 15:52 |
Need a plumber?
Call a drummer.
(dean 2013)
Edited by Dean - January 20 2013 at 15:52
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someone_else
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 15:47 |
Electricity? Biology? Seems to me it's chemistry (Neil Peart, 1982)
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Gerinski
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 14:45 |
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A Person
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 13:34 |
SaltyJon wrote:
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yeah, safer too - you really don't want to get anywhere near physics or biological explosions. |
Ah, but all explosions are technically physics explosions if you think about it. They may be caused by a chemical reaction (many to most are, after all) but the behaviour of the aftermath is all physics. Plus, supernovas are physics explosions and they're a lot cooler (not literally) than most chemistry explosions.
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ture but I mostly meant my study of chemistry seems to have included lots more
explosions than biology and physics, but maybe it was just my chemistry
teacher's pyromania.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 13:19 |
Dean wrote:
yeah, safer too - you really don't want to get anywhere near physics or biological explosions. |
Ah, but all explosions are technically physics explosions if you think about it. They may be caused by a chemical reaction (many to most are, after all) but the behaviour of the aftermath is all physics. Plus, supernovas are physics explosions and they're a lot cooler (not literally) than most chemistry explosions.
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Icarium
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 13:10 |
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what is a bilogical explotion, plague bomb
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Dean
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 13:05 |
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yeah, safer too - you really don't want to get anywhere near physics or biological explosions.
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A Person
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 12:24 |
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Chemistry because explosions.
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Dean
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 05:41 |
All are fascinating and I "understand" them all - physics is my favourite and the one I have most interest in, it is the one I am best at and applied physics (and thus applied mathematics) is my chosen profession. My quips about the olfactory assault of biology and chemistry are the reason I preferred physics at school - and the reasons why we pick one over another can be that mundane and trivial, and that banal - simply put - chemical and biochemical reactions can create unpleasant smells, and the smell of formaldehyde is one of those unpleasant smells. When physics produces an offensive pong then usually something has gone horribly wrong with the experiment.
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Icarium
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 05:24 |
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I have the best understanding of Physics and Biology
I was/is not so good at chemistry, i am not so good a measuring, and combining the various acids and nitrogens,and other things you can play with in the scinence class, but i understand it also, but i can't do it in praxis.
i found quantum physics to be the field in pyiscs i whould most likely willing to learn more about, in biochemstry is also very facinating,
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Physics, Chemistry or Biology
Scientific Laws never interested me much.
