Course Description
This course will examine the actual process by which science is taught. Students will come away with an appreciation of humankind's diverse beliefs about nature as it changed throughout history. Students will also acquire the skills needed to teach scientific principles to a broad range of learners. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning; students will actually simulate important historical scientific experiments. Special focus will be placed on how well you must know your subject in order to teach someone else. The chronology spans ancient teachings (~5,000 B.C.) to Quantum Physics. In order to gain an integrated view of major changes in human reasoning, readings will include the works of the great scientists and thinkers considered to be outside the realm of science, such as Homer, Shakespeare, DesCartes, Jefferson, Emerson, Tolstoy, Goethe, and Melville. Topics include Quantum Physics, Einstein's Relativity, Faraday's Field, Darwin's Evolution, Newton's Bucket, Galileo's Pendulum, and a comparison of the modern, Copernican, Ptolemaic, and Aristotelian views of the world. Attention is given to relationships across sciences. In particular, students will note significant areas where psychology, medicine, literature, biology, chemistry, and physics interrelate when they pertain to the human being.

Conceptual Overview
This course is a tour of the various sciences in the recorded period of the history of humankind. Careful projections will be made as to the activities from the time periods before recorded history and in the future. We will interweave three distinct strands simultaneously by: tracing the ideas for great innovations and inventions back to their origins, highlighting the biographies of the great scientists, and simulating some of the greatest scientists' original experiments.

Underpinnings
We need to connect to our world. We are in a time where some individuals' connection to our own world is arguably at a minimum. We are faced with a vast amount of information that is fragmented and seemingly unrelated. Isn't it true that for some of us, we know our world more and love it less? Instead of gathering facts, why not try reading their meaning. Instead of seeking to increase our mastery over nature, why not look for purpose and design in nature... then sacrifice mastery for appreciation. If one reads between the lines, there is always a story. And true students of life find these stories inspiring. And where students find inspiration, they will find reasons to connect to our world. And when these students connect, we all have hope.

Course Objectives
The goals of this course are:

1. to trace ideas back to their origins;
2. to introduce you to the great scientists through biography;
3. to experience the actual phenomena by performing simulations of some of the greatest historical experiments of all time.

Guiding Questions
You will be asked to critically think through some of the big questions of our time.

• What is matter made of?
• How is one life like humanity's life?
• Does humankind have a hive mind like the bees?
• Why do great discoveries get lost and forgotten?
• Are discoveries ever made at the same time - but in different places?
• If innovation is accelerating, can it go too fast?
• When did humankind stop living in a sustainable way - and why?
• What controls biology - chemicals or intention?
• What makes natures cycles - physical reality or beliefs?

Executive Outline

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CHRONOLOGY

THE ANCIENTS...
· Definition of Science vs. Technology
· India, Egypt, Islam, & China
· Mathematics
· Astronomy
· Technology
· Greco-Roman Culture
· Pre-Socratics, Pythagorists, & Atomists
· Greek Science: Platonism and Aristotelianism
· Medicine
· Engineering
· The Middle Ages: Christian & Islamic Science
· Physics
· ***
· Pyramid
· Magnet
· Compass
· Abacus
· Odometer
· Astrolabe
· Sun Dial
· Lever
· Wheel
· Inclined Plane
· Acids & Bases
· Salts
· Trebuchet
· Parabolic Motion
THE 16TH & 17TH CENTURIES...
· The Renaissance and Copernicus
· Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler
· Galileo and the Church
· Experimental Science
· Science and the Relation to Technology
· Descartes, Pascal, and Newton
· Mechanical and Mathematical Models
· Newtonian Physics
· ***
· Pendulum
· Clock
· Telescope
· Vacuum Tube
· Mass
· Velocity
· Momentum
· Acceleration
THE 18TH CENTURY...
· Newton's Effect on Science & Society
· The Early Industrial Revolution
· Steam Power & Machines
· Psychology
· The Birth of Chemistry, Geology, & Biology
· Darwin
· ***
· Geared Machines
· Steam Engine
· Railroads
· The Mind
· Phylogeny
THE 19TH CENTURY...
· Industrialization and European Expansion
· Faraday & Field Theory
· The Birth of Electromagnetic Devices
· Universal Lighting
· Aviation
· Automation
· What is Human Progress?
· ***
· Chemical Battery
· Generator
· Electric Motor
· Transformer
· Airplane
· Automaton
· Mass Production
THE 20TH & 21ST CENTURIES...
· Space
· Genetic Engineering
· Albert Einstein, New Physics, & The Bomb
· The Uncertainty Principle
· The Age of the Smart Machines
· The Internet
· Science, Technology, and the Modern World
· Conclusion and Review
· ***
· Rocket
· DNA
· Fission
· Photoelectric
· Computer
· Network
· Virtual Reality
· AI

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UNIT I

• Quantum Physics I
  • UNCERTAINTY
  • CO-LOCATION
  • ENTANGLEMENT
  • LIGHT THEORY
    • Pythagoreans (550 BC)
    • Empedocles (450 BC)
    • Plato (400 BC)
    • Euclid (300 BC)
    • Newton (1700 AD)
    • Huygens (1700 AD)
    • Young (1801)
    • Maxwell (1862)
    • Hertz (1887)
    • Einstein (1905)
• Wholeness I
  • Holograms
  • The Golden Ratio
  • Mach & Einstein
  • INFINITY & ETERNITY
  • AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
  • THE HIVE MIND
  • The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, 1974.
  • FIBONACCI ... FIBONACCI'S NUMBERS
  • KANT … Science is circular, answering its own questions.
  • QUANTITATIVE VS. QUALITATIVE
  • GALILEO & NEWTON
  • FARADAY & MAXWELL
• Ancient Science to Present
  • Ancient Africa: The Kushites
  • Ancient India: Zero and Calculus
  • Ancient China: The Big Four
  • Ancient South America: The Olmecs
  • Ancient Mesopotamia: The Babylonians
  • The Greeks, Sumerians, Andeans, Mayans, & Egyptians
  • World Views: Ptolemy to Copernicus to Galileo
  • Newton's Bucket
  • Einstein's Relativity

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UNIT II

• Fields
  • Centralized Force vs Distributed Force
  • Central Processor vs Network
  • Brain vs Body
  • Commander vs Hive Mind
  • Matter vs Field
  • Physical vs Non-Physical
• BioPhysics
  • The Wisdom of Your Cells by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
  • Epigenetics
  • Cell's Life<Protein Movement<DNA<RNA<Thought
  • The Complexity of Wholeness
  • Perception & Survival
  • Programming & Perception
  • The Future of Human Evolution
• ElectroMagnetism
  • Franklin 1706-1790, USA, Static Electricity
  • Galvani 1737-1798, Italy, Galvanoscope
  • Volta 1745-1827, Italy, Battery
  • Goethe 1749-1832, Germany, Matter as Field
  • Ampere 1775-1836, France, Current
  • Oersted 1777-1851, Denmark, Electromagnetism
  • Ohm 1789-1854, Germany, E = I * R
  • Faraday 1791-1867, England, BIG 3, Field
  • Maxwell 1831-1879, England, Field Equations
  • Edison 1847-1931, USA , DC, Light Bulb
  • Tesla 1856-1943, Croatia/USA, AC, Resonance
  • Hertz 1857-1894, Germany, Frequency
  • Marconi 1874-1937, Italy/England, Radio

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UNIT III

• Nature's Cycles
  • The Carbon Cycle
  • The Role of Experimentation
    • HISTORICAL MODEL
  • PRESENT MODEL
  • A POSSIBLE FUTURE MODEL
  • The Calcium Cycle
  • Collecting CO2, O2, & H2
  • The Grand Cycle
  • Other Cycles
• BioChemistry
  • Biology vs Chemistry
  • The Branches of Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry
• Aristotle’s Four Kingdoms
  • MINERAL
  • VEGETABLE
  • ANIMAL
  • MAN
• Aristotle’s Four Elements
  • EARTH
  • WATER
  • AIR
  • FIRE
• The Four Foods
  • MINERAL
  • CARBOHYDRATE
  • PROTEIN
  • FATS & OILS
• Evolution
  • The theory that species change.
  • The theory that the change is from lower to higher.
  • The theory of the origin of the species.
  • Are we in a major evolutionary shift right now?
  • Struggle for Life
  • Random Mutation
  • Inheritance
  • Natural Selection - Survival of the Fittest
  • The Rules of Science
  • Legal Issues
  • Science and Truth

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UNIT IV

• Color
  • Lightening Primaries
  • Darkening Primaries
  • After Image
  • The Sunset and The Sky
  • Newton's vs Goethe's Theory of Color
  • Complementaries
  • The Colors of Shadows
  • Subjective Effects of Color Immersion/Observation
• Wholeness II
  • The Wholeness of Nature by Henri Bortoft, physics, Oxford.
  • Analysis, Observation, & Imagination
  • Goethe: thinking as perception - observation as thinking.
  • Aristotle: knowledge of opposites is one.
  • Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi
  • Logical versus Holistic
  • The language of the intuitive mind
  • Being & Knowing
  • Developing a Theory
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson … ideas may create matter
• Quantum Physics II
  • Concept: Quantum Theory
  • Quantum Exp #1: Photoelectric Effect
  • Quantum Exp #2: Millikan Oil Drop
  • Quantum Exp #3: Young's Double Slit
  • Quantum Exp #4: de Broglie's Wavelength
  • Quantum Exp #5: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
  • Concept: Complementarity
  • Concept: Schrodinger's Wave Equation

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