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letra de 10,000 more years of the scientific method - exurb1a

[intro]
it’s funny, isn’t it?
we’ve got all of this technology
we’ve got all of these clever machines
but if anyone actually asks, like “how does any of it work at all?”
often the best reply you’ll generally get is
“err… yeah, well, probably someone built a box…
and a wizard spluffed in it…
and now it’s magic… and that’s how technology works…
everything’s just made of wizard jizz”
and that’s cool, that’s cool
but yeah, i just want to put a bit of an alternate answer out there like…
yeah, technology is really complex and the world is really complex
but ovеrall, as it happens… actually…
[chorus]
the world isn’t wizard jizz
technology’s not magic, it’s just
sciеntists on acid or applied mathematics
and every piece of technology from satellites to shoes
strated in someone’s f-cking head, for example
segways: not magic
fizzy cola: not magic
sp-cy science place: not magic
magic marker: not magic
it all just relies on foundational physical principles
which we’ll briefly discuss… now

[verse 1]
hey, this sure keeps time good, right?
is it clockwork or what?
is it just tiny dragons all tapping their talons to edm?
no, it’s quartz
and we know if you electrify quartz, it puts out regular vibrations
and we know 32,768 of these vibrations is a second
so if you build a circuit that counts those vibrations, you can keep accurate time
and you just multiply these together until you get hours, days, and years
all thanks to little white crystals that aren’t magic
hey, not all that shabby
is this some kind of wizardry?
nope, just good f-cking science and piezoelectricity
or… er… yeah, computers, that has to be magic right?
no
get sand, purify sand, make silicon ingot, make them wafer thin, do some fancy ion sh-t, then etching, electroplating, layering and stuff
and now what you’ve got is a little slab of silicon, packed with transistors, which are really just tiny little electricity gates
and you put them all together in such a way that they form an electronic mind
consisting usually of: stuff what goes in, control thing, thinking thing, stuff what remembers sh-t and stuff what comes out
a computer is just a little prison for electrons, where we train them to solve problems really quickly
and this all relies on the principles of subatomic physics
meaning that most common use of quantum mechanics in the 21st century
is undeniably, most likely, demonstrably
p-rnography
[verse 2]
how does thatt fly? it’s simple, right?
air under wings makes a wing glide, right?
throw in a big f-cking spinning thing, right?
and if not, maybe some wizardry?
no, flight’s a result of a difference in pressure above the wing versus below the wing
and the cool thing is that if you make sure the pressure is higher below the wing than above…
then lo yo, that’s flight, right?
yeah, also what the h-ll is an engine?
well, internal combustion is essentially the process of turning fuel into motion, using f-cking explosions
in a four stroke engine, gas and air go into the engine
and the gas and air is squeezed into an itty-bitty sp-ce
a little spark strarts a little explosion, forcing the piston to move
then the excess gas is released
and that energy is turned into rotational motion using a crankshaft
and this is generally thanks to gasoline
which is in turn thanks to dead plants, from swamps millions of years ago (not dinosaurs)
further ill-strating that… like…

[chorus]
the world isn’t wizard jizz
just weird and prohibitive
and really, technology is just nature we taught to do cool tricks
and to be honest, can you imagine how utterly miserable life was before we got around to using the scientific method?
“what’s the meaning of life? and hey, why does my b-tt hurt?”
“just shut up, invent fire and get the f-ck in the hut burt”
then die prematurely from and easily curable infection
got a problem? tough luck, baby! natural selection 🙁
[verse 3]
complex is not a synonym for magic
everything works somehow
like a radio, what kind of harry potter sh-t is that?
well first of all, just imagine the universe is made of interactions
’cause it is
and one of them is electromagnetism
and what radio is, is a certain wavelength of that
and if you vary electric current through a wire you can create vibrations in the electromagnetic field
and if you have something that can pick it up on the other end, and turn those waves back into sound, well that’s that
and those are just physical technologies, what about language?
well currently there’s about 7000 spoken languages in the world
some of them use grammatical gender, some don’t
some are alphabetic, some are pictographic
but the one thing they all have in common is that if you learn one
you can read people’s f-cking minds
and this technology took thousands of years to build
and it’s basically the reason we have modern civilization
and it’s not magic
most language processing takes place in the cerebral cortex, we think
adult native speakers usually know about 20,000-35,000 words
but there’s plenty of people who speak multiple languages, so closer to 60,000 words or more
and did we find language at the top of a mountain, or a drawer or some sh-t?
oh no, clever dead people gave it to us
and talking of dead people…

[verse 4]
the difference between our ancestors, and us?
well, mainly reason and rationality
look, there’s a good story about descartes
he was one of the fathers of the scientific method, basically
and one night he had a bunch of whacky dreams
and in one of them an angel came to him, apparently, and said:
“the conquest of nature
is to be achieved
through number
and measure”
and that, surely, has to be one of, if not the most powerfull ideas we’ve ever had
scientific objectivity
nature can be understood using mathematics, then controlled using technology
and as long as we remember that the world isn’t in our heads
that the universe has a character…
well then there may be no limit to what we’ll one day be capable of with technology
rationality is absurdly powerful
it’s the reason we’re not sitting around in our own excrement
it’s the reason the average high-schooler knows more about the world than the smartest human did not a few hundred years ago
it’s the reason lots of us are living better than every emperor in history
and jesus christ, look at what we’ve done already…
antibiotics, or mouldy bread in essence, has probably saved about 200,000,000 lives since it was discovered
your phone has more computing power than all of the computers that nasa used to send humans to the moon
and scientists are now using lasers to listen to black hole collisions billions of years ago via distortions they left in the very fabric of f-cking sp-cetime itself
wizards and witches do exist
and they cast spells called ‘research’ usually abusing a magic potion called ‘coffee’
and if we don’t know everything yet, well better to have questions that you can’t answer than answers you can’t question
don’t you think?
and furthermore, man, i don’t know if we mentioned this… but err…

[chorus]
the world isn’t wizard jizz
and maths is where nature lives
hey, who got us to the moon?
was it witched or physicists?
and if we met

- exurb1a

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