Without even some rudimentary time in a lab, it would be impossible to truly appreciate all of that. It is another to stop and think about what went into building the detectors, the incredible precision of the mirrors and other components, etc. It is one thing to just read about that and say “wow, that’s neat”. As a general lesson it goes well beyond chemistry, emphasizing that there is a lot of real, precise, intricate work that goes behind much of what we read in a simple sentence.įor example, there was just the amazing news about the detection of gravitational waves for the first time. That only comes with the actual doing and in fact doing it more than once. It is one thing to read “A student subjects 10 samples to Test A, filters the precipitates, weighs them, and gets the following results…” it is another to do it yourself and experience all the little obstacles that come into play in doing that the right way and getting meaningful and accurate results, writing it up correctly, etc. “hard” reality that come from actually doing the things you read about, and chemistry labs demonstrate this well.
There are certain life lessons in abstract theory vs.
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