October 19, 2004

Tim K. wrote:

Ok, let's take a physics class to learn biology.
    

All of the MD/PhDs that I know surely did, lots of them in fact.
  

No one that I know did, I sure didn't.  Biology wasn't even mentioned.
 

That explains your ignorance then. Biology without physics. Wonders never cease.

It helps to understand the theory behind the equipment design and the
processes involved,
  

What equipment?
 

Wow, a pencil and paper biologist. The only pencil and paper people I know of are either naturalists, or theoretical physicists, and then they at least use computers and TeX.

 

I'm a geneticist and I'm doing a series of experiments to map genes.

    

Using equipment that was designed using scientific methods, which surely
involve interdisciplinary knowledge within the domains of mathematics,
physics and chemistry, which have their foundations in QM and GR and
classical mechanics.
  

You completely dodged that question.

No I haven't, quantum mechanics, although far removed from daily life, utterly dominates your daily life. You are just too ignorant to see it, and because you can't see it, you don't understand it, and you don't acknowledge it. You are a simpleton.

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/physics/chap2.pdf

So, you go out naked into the swamp and do science.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net