Things are not as they seem ...
It's a strange world out there ...
We once believed that stars revolved on crystal spheres, that thunderbolts were hurled by gods, and that everything was made of air, earth, fire and water.
Today we know 'better': it all started with a Bang, the Universe 'popped' into existence from absolutely nothing, matter and energy are interchangeable, and everything is made of mysterious quantum foam.
But what's 'better' about it? We have no idea what Banged, we don't know how to get something from nothing, and no one understands Quantum Mechanics!
So, what IS going on out there?
Even the experts are struggling ...
Science is a 'methodology' - a particular way of observing and describing the physical world - and the best way we know to address that one BIG question:
"What must the world be like, that it produce the phenomena we observe?"
It's a fiendishly difficult question, with answers as philosophical as they are scientific. Not only do we need to understand 'matter', 'mass', 'energy' and 'force', but also deeper concepts like 'reality', 'existence', 'causation', 'explanation' and 'truth'.
There's some careful thinking to be done ...
But it DOES make sense!
And now you, too, can get to understand it: with a series of short courses that walks you through the philosophical issues; explains the terminology/jargon; identifies both the power and the limitations of scientific knowledge; and helps you build a robust, logically coherent framework in terms of which to make sense of the physical world.
Just imagine! At the end of this course you will understand the world as never before - from the Cosmos to the subatomic - everything from the structure of the atom, the science behind global warming/climate change, and even what all the quantum fuss is about!
And it's not as hard as you think... all it takes is a little junior high-school maths.