Qs people asked about science and my replies to them -Part 243

But most people think only entertainment originated from art is fun. They say science is boring. This is because they think science is hard and serious.

But science is thrilling and you can get entertained by science too.

My evidence: science is fun videos

Experiments are fun. Learning new things is fun. Finding things that nobody knows is fun. Reporting things for the first time is fun.

Thinking critically is fun. Overcoming fear with science and facts is fun. Beating everybody by showing evidence and making them shut up is fun. Sharing knowledge by publishing is fun.

Creatively connecting various things and finding solutions to problems is fun.

Discoveries and inventions are fun. Helping the world is fun.

When everybody around thinks you are intelligent - because you know a lot of things - it is fun - especially when you know how stupid you are in reality.

Every moment of my life is fun because I eat, sleep, drink, dream, think, write, and do science. And this fun is based on facts and reality unlike fiction of art.

This is a poem I wrote as a reply when an artist criticized science:

I smiled when I read the criticism, it is funny

But science doesn't hate art, it is a soothe!

Science is art's buddy

Science is one of the most thrilling speciality,

It makes you a honey!

You don't get bored when you are in a lab but will be on a high with excitation!

Science is an important part of education

If you can get the feel of real science, you will be on the top of the world with intoxication!

Science plus art becomes the right tool of communication!

Humanity's bright foundation!

( Written on June 2nd 2015, in reply to an artist's criticism on Science that it is hard and boring)

Don't criticize Science with shortsightedness!

Q: What is behavioural inertia? How is it relevant to science?

Krishna: Behavioural inertia is often referred to as “the low cost of doing nothing.” It’s a bit more accurate to describe it as the low cost of not changing behaviour. Put simply, behavioural inertia is the tendency to keep doing what you’re already doing. Much like Newton’s first law of physics – an object in motion will remain in that state until acted on by an outside force – people tend to persist in a behaviour until there’s a significant intervention. Inertia also manifests as a tendency to stick with whatever default options are presented, as well as a tendency to disproportionately prioritize convenience over other benefits. You may also see this referred to as the Default Bias or the Status Quo Bias. These are increasingly-popular concepts within the behavioural economics field, and gaining more and more traction in the business environment.

Let me give an example. An astrologist or your guru tells you to do certain rituals. You start doing them and follow them for years and years and refuse to stop doing them despite knowing that they didn’t yield any positive results..

Maybe because of the fear that something would happen to you if you stop them. Or you don’t want to take any risks by disobeying people you fear or respect. Or simply because you cannot accept new understandings and proposals and close your mind to them. Or you don’t understand new things at all. Or you cannot come out of the hole you are living in. Or you don’t want to deviate from your group, friends and family and their rules.

This is the reason why some people refuse to accept science’s and scientists’ proposals, advice, findings, and evidence based facts. Like the few who refuse to get vaccinated. Only an external force that can push them to the brink like the severe covid -19 that disables them or kills their loved ones can make them come out of this rut and change their behaviour.

And we are having a very tough time dealing with these people who have behavioural inertia right now in the field of science.

Think of flat- earthers, antivaxxers, creationists, and all sorts of Boxmen !