The science we are
leaving today is what used to be the science. It is not time that really matters
in making a scientific knowledge what it is, it is its nature. The nature of
time seems too mysterious, yet to be conceptualized in a way which can account
for differences in what we truly know about our world and what we do not know it has to be given a finite form.
The marriage between matter and time is coming to an end. This has always been
so as the impression that time passes makes things to change as well. Should we
say things change because we have the impression time passes?
Yet change is
becoming an important variable. Yet too
unstable to predict and manipulate. You should be aware that you are reading
this article as a result of very important historical changes of a few things;
Science and technology. They are undergoing important shifts which have made
observation now to be more than ever an important tool in knowledge gathering
and generation. It is becoming clearer that the information age is the most
critical period in human's evolution.
Not only is it shaping the present but it
is shaping the future. Or should We say the past, present and future are one
and the same thing. OK until then the science of time is really interesting for
the professional scientists, the quantum physicists. How about the common layman?
The science we are
experiencing today is changing fast enough for us to change the way we should
perceive the very elements that makes it. Information , the way we communicate
about the things we know and want to know or do not know. It is not just
science communication it is also about science journalism. How the information
about facts is changing the way we live.
Science should be
democratized. Science literacy is an important skill you should have. What a
lovely melody there!
The ICT-Kulture is
spreading in Cameroon like in most parts of the world in an exponential rate.
With it a growing threat to the very thing that makes science what it is :
accurate facts, reliable information.
The information disorders are now playing an important role in how any form of
cultural information has to be treated. We humans are a cultural entity. There
is none like us in the cosmos.
If you are reading this,
it means science matters to you. You are right it should. From coronavirus to
quantum physics passing through mental health and health, or from humanitarian
conflicts passing by geopolitics through environmental and climatic change what
is common? Enjoy your cogitation!
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