@l34052: Your right, my mistake. I didn't look up the exact the number, i just remembered it was around 180,000 miles a second. Thanks for catching that.

@ariabed: Okay, first question, if your talking about something along the line of "E=Mc2" then the reason we have symbols to represent phenomena is to make them mathematically calculable. its gonna be near impossible to explain it because its something that only mathematical theorists or theoretical physicists use on a regular basis, but i'll try. Try to think of it like this: "E" represents energy, "M" represents mass. If we know what they are, we can use them in equations. Its the same as using X or Y in a math problem to represent a number. Its a theoretical number that changes depending on the principles or mathematical ways you are implementing those symbols. Symbols are used because there are a lot of things in the universe that are stable (to a certain point). For instance, we know that light travels at around 180,000 feet per second. We know that, so in a mathematical formula, we wouldn't put 180,000 multiply by x equals Y, we would put something like SPV times X equals Y, where SPV is the Speed of Light in a Vacuum. You get it? The symbols are just used to substitute known facts of math and science instead of having to write out the entire number or such your trying to discuss. Consider that some quantum mechanical problems can go on for pages and pages and pages. You wouldn't want to write the same long formula or number, so you substitute it with a symbol. Since math is universal, other scientist around the world will automatically know what your trying to say. Once we figure out the constant rate of something (like gravity or light year, or a chemical composition) we use symbols to represent them in equations. Its a mathematical version of a short cut instead of writing the entire damn thing out. Just look at Pi. Also consider that a lot of forces interact at once in the universe. Symbols just make life easier when trying to discover the gravitational pull of an object with a mass of 100,000,000 tons over a distance of .02 light years when in a parabolic orbit. Math is hard enough so symbols make life a little easier and equations a little shorter

As for your second question, scientist are still human. They have the same level of pride and stubbornness as the rest of us. Its hard to hear that your wrong, that's just what it is to be human. Scientist especially like to think they are always right because there is an otherwise unattainable level of success when you are considered a famous scientist and have all the answers. Famous scientist are remembered. They have schools and formulas and places and phenomena named after them. When every one thinks you are right and gives you all the glory you can handle and some hack comes out of no where are says your wrong, you wont take it kindly. That being said just remember scientist are human and prone to human mistakes and emotions.

@mattykovax: No problem, I'm a teacher at heart, plus I'm a firm believer in that "a good question deserves a good answer" and this was a good question.

@ariabed: What your asking could fill volumes. I'll talk about a bit of it. Math, as we call it was "invented" by the Arabic people several centuries ago. I put the " " because numbers and such have been around since as long as writing, before that time, but not the number 0, that was placed into the number line by the Arabic world and the quintessential mathematics that we use was born. You have to understand that physics as we call it, is a science that has been around for millenia. Countless people have worked and added to our knowledge of the field over those centuries and to ask when was physics born is a tricky question because that's like asking when science was born. It depends on many factors such as what one would consider physics and science. Would you consider the first man who looked at the stars and wondered what they were sciences? Because if so, then he invented it. We'll never know exactly who was the first to do so we can never know when it was invented exactly. The key physicists like Newton, Faraday, Ort, Halley and Einstein push physics forward more than most, but they did not invent the field. Its been around as long as scholars had pondered the universe. Every scientist just adding and subtracting to the field as time passes.

To answer your other question, physics is used to try and understand our world and our universe. Its as real as you and I. Its better to say physics was created rather than discovered, because physics is a field of science, not the phenomena that occur in the universe. You would not consider gravity physics, Its a natural occurrence in the universe, while the study of gravity and its effects on the universe would fit into the field of physics. Physics is used to understand why things happen in our world and in the universe. It only works if its proven and cannot be proved wrong. We know that gravity is 32 feet per second per second because we have never measured an item falling at another rate, and we never will. On the flip side, a lot of physics is theoretical, meaning it cant be proven right or wrong at the moment. As what happens why you cross the event horizon of a black hole and you will get a theoretical answer, until we can prove it for sure, it works to sate our curiosity and give us some understanding. Physics can and has also be wrong, even today we are discovering and rewriting many laws that we thought were true. That's why science channels motto of "question everything" rings so true.

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@ferrari2001: Damn, forgot about Crisis. I might just hold off on Turn till another day. I don't have much desire to see Game of Thrones so I'll probably skip it