Random Banter

[Corribus]

Maybe my english knowledge is as fault here, but wouldn't chemistry as well be excluded from "physical sciences", or has those words some meaning radically different from just "physics"?

Well you kind of have biological (life) sciences at one end of the spectrum and physics at the other, with chemistry occupying the area in between (which doesn't always work, either, because you also have biophysics which doesn't have a lot of chemistry involved, so it's more like a triangle). But typically chemistry and physics are considered the physical sciences in college curricula and biology (and biological sciences) is given its own category, although there is a gray area which includes biochemistry. Physical sciences I guess could be defined as those sciences which are based on physical laws of nonliving systems - and physics and chemistry fit that definition.

For a more rigorous definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_sciences

[Gaidal Cain]

Deamian: Yes, that was what I was asking

And whether Math's is a natural science is something that certainly can be debated...

Corribus: Thanks for filling that hole in my knowledge.

[Corribus]

Yes, that was what I was asking

And whether Math's is a natural science is something that certainly can be debated...

I wouldn't say it's a true science because it's not really rooted in experimentation. It's more of a category unto itself with as much relationship to science as it is to philosophy.

[Gaidal Cain]

I wouldn't say it's a true science because it's not really rooted in experimentation. It's more of a category unto itself with as much relationship to science as it is to philosophy.

Yup. Still, considering the history concerning physics and maths, it's not difficult to see why someone would bundle them together.

[DaemianLucifer]

Whether it is a natural science or not is not important,but it is the world wide excepted cathegorization.

[Gaidal Cain]

Yes, it usually is excepted from that cathegory

[DaemianLucifer]

Sorry,I meant accepted.

[Gaidal Cain]

I know that. You're still wrong, though. Excerpt from wikipedia: .

Mathematics is not itself a natural science, but provides many tools and frameworks used within the natural sciences.

[Corribus]

Mathematics is to science as grammar and vocabulary is to literature.

[DaemianLucifer]

It seems that when Im not arround Gaidal Cain gains just about 10 posts a day,yet when Im here he gains about 30.Humans are so weird

[theLuckyDragon]

... thus spoketh the former witchqueen from the infernal pits... and he says we're wierd! Then you obviously haven't seen everything, how wierd it can really get.

[DaemianLucifer]

"Ive seen everithing"
"Have you seen a man eat his own head?"
"Errr...No"
"Then you havent seen anything yet"

[theLuckyDragon]

Have you seen... it ??

[DaemianLucifer]

It?Yes,it was in a thetre somewhat fifteen years ago.That clown seemed so scary back then.

[ThunderTitan]

It?Yes,it was in a thetre somewhat fifteen years ago.That clown seemed so scary back then.

You don't find clowns scary anymore? The only thing scarier then a clown is a mine. And rabid poodles.

[DaemianLucifer]

Mines are pretty scary!Haunted ones especially

[gravyluvr]

Well here I am - Prime Time on the East Coast of the good ol' USA...

(chirp chirp)

[ThunderTitan]

Mines are pretty scary!Haunted ones especially

Damn sleep! why do we need it anyway? Rabid poodles>mimes>clowns!

[Caradoc]

As an undergrad, I was a double major in math and english. Out of 40,000 students at UT there was only one other, Gunnar Hansen aka Leatherface from Chainsaw Massacre.

[Kristo]

No,I meant all of them.Biologhy,math,chem,and physics.Physical science would mean just physics,and probably non-organic chemistry.

Meh, it's all the same. Biology is really just Chemistry. Chemistry is really Physics. Physics is really Math. And Math is really hard.