FISHICS

Do you still remember what your high school teachers keep telling you about their respective subjects? This subject is the center of something or the central science of all something, blah blah blah. But come to think of it, if all disciplines claim that they’re located at the center then is there a field of science which covers everything, not just the center but at all corners? Actually, I’ve known the answer long ago but I don’t believe it’s really true at the time, not because I don’t think the teacher is convincing enough to say such claim but I don’t fully understand how that science covers a universal scope from nonliving to living. Guess what subject that is? Physics. Yes, and my teacher said that, “Physics is everything”, but he pronounced it this way Fishics ish everything, maybe that’s why it’s still clear from my memory. Graduating from a science high school, I knew even after graduation that I would still encounter more mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other fields of science. True enough, Food Technology curriculum in UP-Diliman requires some units of the holy trinity (Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry). Although I’ve grown to love chemistry in college, my heart distanced itself from the other members of the trinity. One of the reasons is that I think they’re not so interesting, or so I thought.

Then for my last semester in college, with only a few subjects to take, I was VERY lucky to enlist Physics 10 (if you’re from UP, you would understand why). It’s refreshing to study a science course that is not really that heavy on the technical side. The lecture topics focus more on the basic concepts in the field of physics. Thus the course made me extremely appreciate physics and its applications. Through the semester, I can truly say (and truly believe) that Physics is everything. Quantum mechanics, a field under Physics, could explain the behaviour and the characteristics of even the tiniest of atomic particles. And the more obvious application of physics is that it explains most of the natural phenomena in our everyday life. From the force that holds us in place at the surface of the earth to the movement of heavenly bodies and the universe. With Einstein’s general theory of relativity, it was already proven mathematically that black holes could exist but it was only discovered until recently that they do. Isn’t it amazing? (aaaaah-mazing like that of the Mcdo commercial. Ha ha) Anyway, you may think that physics is not involved with living things or humans but through advancement of technology, physics plays a major role in medicine. In one of our lectures, there is a study in lung therapy where nanomagnetic particles are incorporated in a drug so that it’s path could be directed exactly to the lungs using a magnet. Animal and human behaviour can also be predicted in a young field in physics, complex systems. One particular topic discussed was about emergence where organisms lead to an organized behaviour without a force or entity leading them that way. Because I have only encountered this topic in physics 10, one statement struck me the most, “If there is no order, then it’s not complex enough”. Because complex systems only apply in large networks or a huge number of organisms organized in an orderly manner, order would not exist if this requirement would not be met.

To write the things I learned from this course is a lot to take in, but you know, I don’t feel that way when I come to class. Our professor and other lecturers discussed the topics like they were as simple as 1, 2, 3. Physics might be boring in high school, but maybe it greatly depends on how it was presented. And the way Physics 10 was handled by our professor could only say one word to describe it, ASTIG!

"Milkshake
You were like dairy. I craved you, but shortly after I had you, I realized that you were never worth the ache that followed."

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"It’s never too late to be what you might have been"

— anonymous

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

— Albert Einstein (via kimchii)

ba’t ba kasi ako nappressure. :(

i think. i think too much.

crazy day. exhausting.