Chemical Changes

C6H12O6 (glucose) 2 C2H5OH (ethyl alcohol) + 2 CO2

You know what that is? No, you don't. This is when glucose (simple sugar) ferments to ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. The sugar in grapes or from grain ferments with yeast to make the alcohol and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is the gas that bubbles out of beer or champaign. Why do i like this reaction? CAUSE IT MAKES BEER.

WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Why do i like beer? I DON'T KNOW! Have i tried beer? Haven't even touched a bottle yet. So why do i like it again? I like it cause beer makes people happy and makes them them momentarily forget about their problems.

If this reaction did not happen anymore, that would screw over millions, maybe billions of people. There would be riots, and violence because of their dependence. The suicide hot line would have a huge waiting list. (That was dark, was it not)?

How would it affect me? It wouldn't unless i got anger taken out on me by a alcoholic who wants his beer.

Achmed

State of The Union

Some Links Up Front
George Bush on Cloning

I'm on my laptop watching the State of The Union address by Mr. Bush. He brings up an interesting point. Go here for more info on this state of the union address.

"The buying, selling, patenting, and cloning of human beings should be permanently banned"

The buying and selling part, we can all agree with. Stem cells have had 'breakthroughs' and soon, there probably won't be an ethical debate about it.

I don't get much about patenting human beings. Guess they are talking stem cells again

Cloning is the cool part. Humans have never been cloned before and no one could know what'd happen. Would they rebel or drive us insane. Would they be able to feel emotion as a human can. Can they replace someone completely. Cloning makes great movies, ya? For some info on cloning, go to this link.

Mr. Bush is completely against cloning as you can tell but not everyone is. I think cloning would be cool, as long as it was controlled. We already got a population crisis around the world. It could be used medically maybe. You could make a clone, then use their body parts as transplants for people. If someone dies and someone gets depressed, you could clone him/her the dead guy, cheer him/her up a little and send em' along. Then, you could kill the clone or keep it as a pet. Haha, jk. Maybe you could send them to the Moon or something. Just dump them there. I DON'T KNOW.

Could the clones become part of human life. What could clones do to society. If some dude is looking for a girl, who would he choose, a perfect clone, or an average woman. The clone obviously. Then there's gonna be a huge debate between Naturals vs. Clones. (that would make a great movie). There could be a cbay instead of an ebay. "Buy your clones today, fresh from the factory, ready to do whatever you want. Just $5,000 + shipping and handling." That would be ...interesting...

Well, just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

Houston, We got a problem

OK, the new template apparently doesn't show links. So, my recent posts, I put the links in bold but the older ones i haven't 'cause i can't find them.

Good Luck Mr.V

Change/Models

Here be the link to my site that I have to I'll be using. New Technique Quickly Detects Cancer

This article really has nothing to directly with change and models but the discovery did create change. A technique that quickly detects cancer could save many lives, maybe thousands over the long run.

My original answer to "what causes change" was , in one word, necessity. However, there was never a need to find a way to find cancer a little quicker. The scientists that researched this aren't desperately poor and they don't need to find some kind of discovery. They did it because they wanted to.

I could go on to conclude that change can also be caused by want. If someone or something wants to do something, it will. If someone wants to drive around in a 38 mpg hummer instead of a Toyata pre-s, they can increase the CO2 levels of Earth. This may cause global warming. If some idiot wants to go out drinking with her boyfriend she met 10 minutes ago in a nightclub, she may become pregnant. If someone wants to ride a dirt bike down a 400 foot ramp and try to do a double back-flip, they may lose consciousness and wake up breathing through a tube. You never know.

Why do we learn science?

I got a few answers to this question. I think that the whole point of school is to open up careers to their students. Whatever the students find interesting, they pursue it. Science is taught because there is and always will be a huge amount of career opportunities based on science. For those who want a job in science, they will need to become specialists in an area.

Looking for a science job, try this site. New Scientist Jobs

Obviously, learning science would be pretty important if you were to choose a scientific career. Science would be the most important and useful to these people. However, science is also useful to those who aren't pursuing a scientific career and is still worth learning. Science helps you understand the world around you. It makes it all clearer. If you see a firework going off, you can think, wow, I know how it works. I like Madelyn's blog on how science is useful to those who aren't looking for science to be the center of their life. She says that knowing basic science keeps us safe. I agree with that. If we didn't know about conductors of electricity, we might go hide up against a metal fence during a thunderstorm and get shocked to death or go try to call our family on a public phone during a storm.

If we didn't know chemical properties of substances, we couldn't know if it is flammable or not. It would take a while to light limestone on fire. In natural science, you could learn that threatened skunks will go through an elaborate routine of hisses and foot stamping and tail-high threat postures before resorting to the spray. This could be pretty useful if you are in a park and you happen to see a skunk hissing at you. If you didn't know any better, you'd probably try to go pet that cute little skunk.

Basically, science helps you understand the world better, avoid hazards, and get through life easier.

Redesigned

I got bored of my old blog template. I think this is an improvement.

Global warming Add-on

I've been asked to post links of some of my sources

1. National Geographic on Global Warming Storms
2. Map of the World
3. Polar Ice Caps
4. Effect of Global Warming ( probably biased)
   

Marta suggested that I talk about the financial aspects of global warming. This will be a subjective post so feel free to disagree. This is basically the tricky part of global warming. For a major change to occur, not only will you need the cooperation of many countries, you will need billions of dollars. I don't think we need to go over the top with helping the environment. I believe that we should do the little things to help nature. Recycling should be required and fines for not recycling should be heavier. Plastic items basically torture the Earth. They cannot be decomposed and basically fill up landfills. Any way to recycle plastics should be used. Cell phones shouldn't be thrown. There are millions of people around the world who would like the cell phone. Just recycle it, let a factory polish it up a bit, and give/sell it secondhand to another person. If at all possible, people should start biking to nearby places instead of driving a few blocks. It would be a great exercise and help the environment. These are the kind of little things that need to be enforced.

Of course, (assuming global warming is real) there is a lot more that needs to be done. If global warming isn't real, well then, you can do these things to help out the environment. Alternative fuels would be a great asset in helping the environment and possibly stopping global warming. A humble suggestion to the government, they should offer rewards to helping create alternative fuels. For example, if someone were to come up with a practical and reasonably priced way to create a solar powered car, he should be rewarded in cash (or check), given a patent, and possible a medal/prize for his discovery that helped the environment. A reward of 10 million dollars would be a good way to convince the smart peeps out there to get thinking. Now in order to really help the environment, emissions have to be cut. This is where it gets tricky. I believe a carbon tax would not work out at the moment. There are way too many companies out there and there is too much CO2 being emitted. You would need to take this slowly. First, there needs to be an agreement between countries to cut emissions. It has to be a group effort. If one person does it nicely but no one else does, it is useless. An example is Switzerland, the greenest country of them all. The level of difference they made in the world's environment- not so much. A major, well thought-out contract has to be agreed to and strictly followed. Maybe a 10 point plan to cut 30% of CO2 emissions globally. (I don't know what the 10 points are) ( what i do know is that it will take cooperation and a lot of $$$)

Well, you would think I'm done but you are wrong. I now have to talk about the social aspects. In all due respect to Al Gore, i believe that he exaggerated the effects of global warming. The media is making global warming sound a lot worse then I along with many to believe. The exaggeration has pros and cons however. Pros- helps promote greener environment. Cons- they lied to us. Society is split because of global warming. Some say it exists, some say it doesn't. some say we should help out either way, and some just don't care. I really doubt that the general community would all bond together and say " lets stop global warming" until it is a little too late or " lets not stop global warming" when its a little too early. Society won't come to a consensus any time soon. What the media should try to say is instead of " global warming is real and we should take drastic measures now", they should say " global warming or not, lets help out the environment." At least they would be telling the truth.

If it were to be decided that global warming is bogus, then society would continue living as it does now. If it is decided that it was real, then society would do a 180 and have to change the way they live. They would bike and walk more. Recycling would be a must. They might have to switch their electricity and appliances into their more environmentally friendly counterparts. New cars would need to be bought or old cars modified. Everything would change and some people just aren't ready for that.

What a messy issue.

Global warming

Mr. Voight, if you didn't know has assigned us another ... assignment on global warming. Go here for details. Now, since no one has posted on this topic, I'll have to start it off.

Global warming is a very controversial topic that will not be resolved anytime soon. As Mr. Voight said, several decades ago, people thought there was global cooling but it wasn't true. This would mean that global warming could be untrue as well but is it? CO2 levels are higher then ever and almost all scientific reports state that that is increasing temperatures. If this is true then global warming is a serious threat to the environment. An argument against this is a increase in CO2 levels is too minor to be considered a major reason for increasing temperatures. We even have people saying that global warming is unstoppable and if it is going to happen, it will.

What do i think of global warming? I believe that at this moment, temperatures are warming and we should do something about it. Even if global warming turns out to be a farce, by the time temperatures got in control, there could be 20 more level 5 hurricanes hitting the coasts of many continents. For example, let us say that the word gets warmer for the next 30 years and then controls itself as some say it will. That could be a 2 degree Fahrenheit rise and and it could greatly increase the amount of hurricanes and floods in this world. That could result in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people. If the world were to come together to seriously invest in slowing down global warming in any way, it would be worth it. If, for example, the U.N. agreed on a plan to cut carbon emissions by 30%, that could cause the temperature in 2030 to rise by 1 degrees instead of 2. In terms of hurricanes, floods, polar ice melting, that is a huge difference.

What would i say to those who believe global warming is unstoppable? I would say that even if is unstoppable, we are effecting it. If we were to cut down on carbon. The temperature could only increase by 2 degrees instead of 4 ( assuming that the world continues warming)

To those that believe global warming is definitely happening, well then, start cutting emissions.

In any situation, it is better to be safe then sorry. Nature is unpredictable and no matter what happens in the future, nothing bad would happen because we began cutting emissions, using alternative fuels, and saving energy.

I also feel that it is really stupid that we have 5% of the worlds population and we emit 25% of the carbon. If we want other countries to cut emissions ( like India or China), we should cut our own emissions first.

Go ahead and comment on your views on global warming

Change and Electromagnetic Force

I have 2 answers to how electromagnetic force causes change.
First of all, electromagnetic force states that opposites charges attract and same charges repel.
Scientifically speaking, electromagnetic force is the cause of chemical bonding. Because of electromagnetic force, we have covalent, metallic, and ionic bonding. These bonds create everything in the universe. In covalent bonding, electrons are shared and the reason the electrons stay in place is because of electromagnetic force. The positively charged protons pull on the electrons from both sides and that causes the the electrons to be held in place. In ionic, the electrons are given and taken. That causes one atom to become positively charged and one atom to become negatively charged. Electromagnetic force causes these 2 atoms to combine. In metallic, there are few electrons in the valence shell and that causes the electrons to stray away from the shell and form a sea of electrons around the atoms. The electrons in the sea are able to slide past each other like molecules in water. This gives the metal malleability and ductility. The two metal atoms gain the feeling that there valence shells are complete because of the sea of electrons around them. Because of the attraction between positive ions and negative electrons ( electromagnetic force), it is very difficult for electrons to overcome it and stray away from the atoms.
There are some real world examples as well on how opposites attract. But all the ones i can think of are already posted in different blogs so why don't you go look at them (maybe here), (or here), (or here),

What Causes Change add-on

Troy, brought up a good point. The need to change arises when there is a change in the environment. That change was brought about by another change in its environment and so on.
Also, from reading other posts, I can agree with the statement that change can be stopped (without stopping time.) If a non-human object (a living being would age) were to be in complete isolation, such as in the vacuum of space surrounded by emptiness and absolutely nothing to trigger any motion or reaction whatsoever, you would be unable to change. This idea was gained from here.

What Causes Change Suggestions

some nice answers to "what causes change"

Kendall

Dominique

Troy (1) (2) (3)

Madelyn

What Causes Change

Change will happen as long as the universe exists. There are many types of changes and one would be changes that are caused by the need for change. If you were to participate is modern warfare with stones and mediocre bows and arrows, you wouldn't get very far. The situation requires for you to change and adopt the use of more effective weaponry such as guns, airplanes, tanks, etc.
Another example of change would be evolution. Basically, all helpful traits that are useful for survival and reproduction become increasingly common and those traits that are no longer useful to survival and reproduction become obsolete. Slowly but surely, this creates considerable change in the world we live in. For more information on evolution, click here.
Change by need can be traced down to the sub-atomic level as well. All atoms want to be "happy" and in order for that to happen, their valence shell has to be complete. Non-metal atoms form covalent bonds with one another in order to satisfy their need and create completely new substances because of it. Here is a crudely drawn example of an a chemical compound. .

Notice that each valence shell is complete. This is sugar for those who don't know.
There are other ways change can be caused. It could be caused by another object. When you kick a ball, you transfer energy to the stationary item and cause motion. On a larger scale, if a meteor were to hit the Earth, that would quite a large energy transfer and it would cause a major change. I would also, in this section, talk about global warming but it is a controversial issue so I'll avoid it.
Those are my thoughts on what causes change.

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