tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27467204.post9122580348856391666..comments2008-07-04T03:34:43.659-04:00Kari T. Ryder Wilkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00759385993269504640kryderwilkie@gmail.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27467204.post-57883066164268588092008-07-03T23:03:00.000-04:002008-07-03T23:03:00.000-04:00The distinction between "physics" vs stamp collecting is between what's fundamental and what's just filling in the blanks. Baron Rutherford got to say what he airily said because he came up with a fundamental -- perhaps several of them, but certainly the golden nucleus was a fundamental. <BR/><BR/>I'm a biologist and to this day I'm just blown away that the Krebs Cycle isn't taught as a fundamental, and instead the kids learn all the stamp collecting stuff about how many legs this one has and how many stomachs that one has, and which ones lay eggs, and just a million and one different, well, stamps. They should be taught the Krebs cycle first. First!<BR/><BR/>(it's taught much later than first because it was discovered later than the Biblical biology of two by two animals going into Noah's ark, eg Darwin, or Linnaeus.)richard808http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818269926100374718noreply@blogger.com