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Do you often curious about how things scientifically work?

Asked by Your_Majesty (8235points) June 9th, 2011

I mean, like when you took your headache pills did you just swallow it without ever curious about how it works, which ingredients/chemical compounds that stimulate certain nerves, the curing process inside your body, etc or did you try to find scientific explanation to satisfy your curiosity and make you feel better about using the product?

How certain cream will make your skins tanner, how hair removal treatment through electrolysis works, how your fish food make your fish shiny, etc. Those are just some examples (sorry, I couldn’t find another better way to explain my question).

Now it’s about you. Are you a ‘just use it’ person or are you a very perceptive consumer?

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Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

How electricity, radio waves, television, the internet, and the telephone works have always held mystery.

Cruiser's avatar

Yes…I look under the hood at all aspects of life around me!

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I like to know,especially if it is something from a doctor.

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

I have quite a scientific mind, so I have learned how TVs, drugs, CDs, diodes, speakers, solar panels etc. work. It interests me, and it often comes in handy when I’m the one left to fix things.

For future reference, ‘curious’ is not a verb.

marinelife's avatar

I don’t put anything in or on my body without researching it.

My scientific curiosity expands to other areas like the natural world and the laws of science and nature as well.

SABOTEUR's avatar

Not it all.
With the exception of the human mind, I seldom care how or why something works.

If I have a desire to use it, I just want it to work.

Blackberry's avatar

Of course, but I can’t analyze every thing I do at a molecular level, I’m just not that smart lol. When I’m driving, I think about how the pressure of the air is affecting my speed, how it is affected if I roll down the windows, what is happening to my body when I’m exercising etc.

mattbrowne's avatar

When you don’t know how things work on a more detailed level you might make the wrong the decision when the circumstances are unusual.

Hibernate's avatar

When I was a kid I wasn’t that curious but know I want to know it .. mechanics and all.

How it’s made is the best show to teach you about a lot of “why” ^^

gasman's avatar

Even as a child I was a science enthusiast. I’ve spent my life seeking a coherent understanding of how the world works—a bottom-up view starting with fundamental particles, then increasing levels of organization including chemistry, biology, geology, and astrophysics. It helps that I have a degree in physics. I get how computer chips, lasers, airplanes, and aspirin work.

The only deep mysteries I harbor are those which really nobody understands: Human consciousness, quantum weirdness, the big bang singularity, molecular basis of cancer, aging, embryonic development, etc. I am heartened that in my lifetime, some of the hardest questions have at least been partially answered.

Of course most details are known only to experts. Even the average doctor, who can tell you the basic mechanisms of common drugs, generally lacks detailed knowledge of all the molecular biology underlying development of the drug, which may be known to very few individual scientists indeed.

When I see a new gadget that seems to work “magically,” I’ve just got to know how it actually works, at least in principle. I guess that qualifies as scientific curiosity.

peridot's avatar

I love knowing how things work, including movie special effects. There are people for whom finding out how an fx was done kills the illusion for them. Guess I’m fortunate, since it doesn’t detract from anything for me; you can have science and magic at the same time.

There are limits, though. I can wrap my head around most things scientific, but don’t ask me to build a decent webpage! LOL

RocketGuy's avatar

If you know how things work, you can make better use of them or fix problems with them.

Plucky's avatar

I am extremely curious. I question everything. I’m told I have the wonder of a child…or that I’m weird, lol.

blueiiznh's avatar

I am very perceptive and intuitively know, but I always want to know more.
On rainy days as a kid I would read the encyclopedia. What a nerd…. Well more a polymath.

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