Good place to start?

[Sin]

I've been trying to find something decent that would help me grip more knowledge on science.

 

I need extremely beginner lessons/information. Some of these words in the forum i have never seen in my life. Im in public schooling high school though...so i have an excuse!

 

I'd really prefer books or webpages. Forums are alright, I will probably attempt to come back here in the future, but most likely if I stayed I would just embarras myself, heh.

 

And one last heads up, i don't know any of the "sections" of science either, so i do not know which i would be more interested in, which is why i want a more open-sided information that can display all science.

 

Thank you, in advance, if anyone can help.

[ydoaPs]

What kind of science are you looking for?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

SFN's where I first started learning all sorts of new and interesting things. Just hang around, read discussions, and ask questions (we like questions) when you're confused about something.

 

Wikipedia is often good at explaining the basics of things, although of course it then goes into incredible confusing details later on in the article. (You'd want to skip those bits.) The quality varies from article to article.

[Sin]

SFN's where I first started learning all sorts of new and interesting things. Just hang around, read discussions, and ask questions (we like questions) when you're confused about something.

 

I would like to stay, and probably will, but ill mainly just view everything, considering about half of the things i see here i have absolutely no idea what they are talking about, lol.

[npts2020]

Formulating questions is the first step to understanding. I would venture to say that nobody here completely understands everything that is discussed in this forum. The trick is to find what interests you and begin there.

[CaptainPanic]

As far as I'm concerned (being an engineer), science is about the knowledge itself, and engineering (which is also science, in a way) is about the what you can actually do with the knowledge.

 

This is perhaps step one to decide: do you want to either discover new things, or do you prefer to apply discoveries of others in a new way? (Like in my field, chemistry: the chemists work in the laboratory to do research on new materials. Once they find something that is a good product, I step in, and start working on designing the factory).

 

Most fields of science also have an applied version (the engineering side of the story).

[Sin]

As far as I'm concerned (being an engineer), science is about the knowledge itself, and engineering (which is also science, in a way) is about the what you can actually do with the knowledge.

 

This is perhaps step one to decide: do you want to either discover new things, or do you prefer to apply discoveries of others in a new way? (Like in my field, chemistry: the chemists work in the laboratory to do research on new materials. Once they find something that is a good product, I step in, and start working on designing the factory).

 

Most fields of science also have an applied version (the engineering side of the story).

 

 

I would like to discover new things. Were should i go? So far skimming threw the forum i found interest in Astrology, Biology, and a tad bit of that Nuclear studies (unsure of name).

Any good resources to point out for these subjects?

Edited December 31, 2008 by Sin
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[ydoaPs]

Nuclear studies (unsure of name).

 

Sorry. That one's classified.

[Klaynos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science

 

For a general overview of something you know little to nothing about wp is good.

 

Astrology (You mean astrophysics, trust me never call it astrology to an astrophysicist...)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/astcon.html#astcon

 

Biology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology

 

Nuclear physics (and particle physics you possibly mean):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuccon.html#c1

 

These will give you a broad overview (hyperphysics varies from highly mathematical and indepth to washy and handwavey), if you've any questions post them here, read threads here if you've questions ask them. We WONT think any the worst of you for asking a question.

 

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I also cannot emphasis just how broad, varied and scarily large the concept of science covers. I feel this is something that is often just glazed over in schools, science is quite literally everything!

[Sin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science

 

For a general overview of something you know little to nothing about wp is good.

 

Astrology (You mean astrophysics, trust me never call it astrology to an astrophysicist...)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/astcon.html#astcon

 

Biology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology

 

Nuclear physics (and particle physics you possibly mean):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuccon.html#c1

 

These will give you a broad overview (hyperphysics varies from highly mathematical and indepth to washy and handwavey), if you've any questions post them here, read threads here if you've questions ask them. We WONT think any the worst of you for asking a question.

 

|Edit:

 

I also cannot emphasis just how broad, varied and scarily large the concept of science covers. I feel this is something that is often just glazed over in schools, science is quite literally everything!

 

Thank you.

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