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Scientific reductionism is the idea that one can explain the complex phenomena of a system by breaking down the system into its constituent parts and describing the behaviour of individual objects within the system. In this topic, we will clearly see reductionism at work as we try to connect macroscopic properties with the microscopic behaviour of the atoms that make up the macroscopic object.

Scientific reductionism can be used in particular cases very well such as here in thermal concepts, but in other cases it falls quite short. For example, weather patterns are notoriously hard to predict more than a few days in advance and are easy to get wrong, even with all the computing power at our disposal.

Watch Erica Carlson's TED Talk Are you More Than Your Atoms? to hear her argument that for the most complex system, reductionism isn't useful:

]]> 2021-01-11 06:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ldt1/rcmtk6uinwkjgxsa/wish/1072859780 What is Heat? ldt1 https://padlet.com/ldt1/rcmtk6uinwkjgxsa/wish/1081624454 What exactly is heat? In 1787, Antoine Lavoisier – a French national and the founder of modern chemistry – attempted to answer just that question. He proposed a model of heat similar to the popular model of electricity as an electrical fluid; he believed that heat itself was a fluid that he termed 'caloric fluid', after the Latin word 'calor' for heat. Lavoisier's caloric theory was adopted as the prevailing paradigm that explained the nature of heat until 1798. ]]> 2021-01-13 05:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ldt1/rcmtk6uinwkjgxsa/wish/1081624454