Q: In your opinion, how effective is the “mapmaking” of science? How close has it got us to the reality out there?
Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. I believe that science is a mixture of what we see and think in reality that’s assorted with knowledge and what’s actually there in the world. The term “good mapmaking” means possessing the knowledge and understanding all aspects of the map. Since science is a mixture of reality such as what we see and experience, know and experiments, it relates to the good mapmaking.
“Mapmaking” of science is exceptionally good but scientists must not take this idea as a big type of map because all scientists are naturally biased in their own way, so their information or claim might not always be accurate and there might also be limitations. Every since Albert Einstein’s science era, science has expanded and became so much larger that what we can know. However, the science itself hasn’t shown the whole reality yet.
Scientists these days are trying to approach to reality step-by-step so they can discover something new, which can be added to the new “mapmaking” of science. However, this is not an extension of mapmaking because according to the article, Albert Einstein built on Newton’s ideas. This is because Einstein proved that Newton’s theory was right, since Einstein’s theory was built on based on Newton’s foundations. He took a portion of Newton’s scientific theory and made them into a new dimension. This proves that the “mapmaking” of science is actually effective and it is gradually getting closer to reality because Einstein got his theory from what was inside the “mapmaking” which eventually allowed Einstein to create a