Science

I am starting this thread because a previous thread had sidetracked but showed that there are plenty of people on this site who are interested in science . I personally love physics and will post physics type facts but feel free to post your opinions on any type of science, may it be chemistry, biology, astronomy, earth science, etc.

oh well
are you going to post some topic, or just some random facts (please, no)
cause i don;t know where to start?

but i have to say, never been interested in bilogy (i hated it in primary and high school), chemistry..
only math, astronomy, comp science, physics...

That's pretty much how I am too.

That's 'cause Biology is boring. I, myself, am taking chemistry next year and physics the year after.

well i don't know if you can say that biology is boring to all people (as for me, it SURE is)


anyway, when you say "taking" chem next year, you mean you're going to phd or what? i think you don't have the sam system as we do here...

only like history.
hate all those sciencethings.

hate biology because of the theacher. one day he told he had shoot his load on microscope because he thought it would be interesting to look at it.

Guess I'm the odd one out (I know Fulghers is one too )

I'm a bio freak. I love it to pieces.

Chemistry, especially organic chemistry reduces me to tears.

I don't mind Physics (especially atomic and particle physics)

Don't get me started on Math. I don't mind calculus... but that's it! I actually love trig

The only science I'm interested in is the science of ROCK!

Actually, this stuff really interests me, I just don't know a thing about it!

Oh yeah, PhD, definetly. No, actually I've got a long way to go for that, I'm still in highschool.

I think what he means is that he's taking chem in the form of pills.

Physics is kind of interesting. I will never forget that lesson on light dispersion, you know, the prysm and stuff.

That reminds me of something, but I can't put my finger on it. .

You know, that Van Halen album cover.

In optics, a prism is a device used to refract light, reflect it or break it up (to disperse it) into its constituent spectral colours (colours of the rainbow). The traditional geometrical shape is that of a triangular prism, with a triangular base and rectangular sides. Some types of optical prisms are not in fact in the shape of geometric prisms.
As light moves from one medium (e.g. air) to another denser medium (the glass of the prism), it is slowed down and as a result either bent (refracted) or reflected. The angle that the beam of light makes with the interface as well as the refractive indices of the two media determine whether it is reflected or refracted, and by how much (see refraction, total internal reflection).
Reflective prisms are used to reflect light, for instance in binoculars, since they are easier to manufacture than mirrors. Dispersive prisms are used to break up light into its constituent spectral colours because the refractive index depends on frequency (see dispersion); the white light entering the prism is a mixture of different frequencies, each of which gets bent slightly differently. Blue light is slowed down more than red light and will therefore be bent more than red light. There are also polarizing prisms (also known as birefringent prisms) which can split a beam of light into components of varying polarization.
Isaac Newton first thought that prisms split colours out of colourless light. Newton placed a second prism such that a separated colour would pass through it and found the colour unchanged. He concluded that prisms separate colours. He also used a lens and a second prism to recompose the rainbow into white light.

Yes, that's exactly what I've studied. The wavelenghts go from 0.4 micrometers (red) to 0.75 micrometers (violet).