Physics is the most fundamental connection between Mathematics and the Natural World.

Physics is a particular branch in science which concerns itself with connecting natural phenomenon to mathematical equations. It is not important to understand much physics to understand health issues, but there are some simple concepts which come from physics which informed people should have familiarity with.

Metric System

For most purposes people use "base 10" mathematics. This is what the metric system uses, so different units are related to each other by powers of ten. When making a measurement, for example, in meters, seconds, grams - or with computers, bytes. We use a metric prefix to make it easier to record our metric quantity.

pico - 0.000000000001 1 x 10^-12
nano - 0.000000001 1 x 10^-9
micro - 0.000001 1 x 10^-6
milli - 0.001 1 x 10^-3
centi - 0.01 1 x 10^-2
deci - 0.1 1 x 10^-1
- 1 1 x 10⁰
deca - 10 1 x 10¹
hecta - 100 1 x 10²
kilo - 1000 1 x 10³
mega - 1,000,000 1 x 10⁶
giga - 1,000,000,000 1 x 10⁹
tera - 1,000,000,000,000 1 x 10¹²

Sciences like biology, chemistry, and physics often deal with tiny things and short time periods, so they measure things in micrograms or picoseconds. Sciences like computer technology or astronomy deal with huge amounts, so computers measure space in gigabytes and astronomers talk about terameters. The condensed way of writing numbers in the rightmost part of the above list is called "scientific notation."

A positive exponential, such as "kilo," refers to how many times you multiply the raised number. In the case of kilo, such a kilometer, one should multiply the number of meters by 10x10x10, or 1000. For negative values, do the same thing, but then invert the number. So for a millimeter, multiply 10x10x10 to get 1000, then divide the number one by the answer; so a millimeter is one-thousandth (1/1000) of a meter.

Statistics

Statistics is a tool for interpreting large amounts of data which are too numerous to consider individually. Because topics in physics deal with a lot of data, people have arbitrary systems of sorting the data, and under certain circumstances these systems convince certain people that things are either correct or incorrect.

An example of one arbitrary statistical tool which has no basis in the natural world, and yet which large numbers of scientists use, is something called "standard deviation." "Standard deviation" is a system for looking at a huge data set and determining how likely it is that certain individual pieces of data are mistakes because they are especially different from the majority of the other data.

It more important to know that scientists use statistics than it is to understand statistics. Statistics has a technique has resulted in some of the most brilliant discoveries in human history, and some people are extraordinarily adept at producing advances to human life with the help of statistical analysis. However, statistics itself is not a fundamental system based in natural law for determining truth or inaccuracy.

This is not to say that statistics is faulty, or that science is especially flawed, and this should not be taken as a negative critique of any branch of science. This is just an exortation for all people to learn as much as they can about the reasoning for all the decisions which affect their lives. Scientists are not magic-workers. They use tools which anyone has a right to understand. A person's understanding of statistics has a huge bearing on their view of other fields of academics, and if any reader questions any aspect of the Sanjeevani Booti website, feel free to contact us, and we will be happy to discuss the statistical research which has gone into the statements which we make.

Atomic Theory

Atomic theory is the concept that there are fundamental particles which make-up the material universe, and the practical corollary which made it significant to advancing society is that humans have the ability to manipulate these fundamental particles. The universe is composed of two things - energy and matter. Physics studies a lot of relationships and aspects of various types of energy, but those are usually not important to an understanding of public health. Matter includes everything that has weight, so water, earth, and air are all types of matter.

The experiments which tested or supposed atomic theory led to the scientific revolution. In ancient times in many cultures, philosophers debated whether a given object could be halved an infinite number of times and still retain its properties. The answer to this debate arose on a practical level during the 1600s, giving rise to rapid advancements in the science of chemistry. The answer is "no." Atoms are the smallest particles which can be produced by natural earthly means.

What it Means

Some of the information in this section may seem unrelated to public health. However, many of the decisions made about public health have their basis in biases associated with the metric system and statistics, and almost all science associated with modern healthcare is dependent on the acceptace of atomic theory.

Anyone who does not know the metric system is unable to understand statistics. Anyone who is unable to understand statistics is unable to understand the scientific method. Anyone who does does understand the scientific method has no basis for accepting atomic theory. Disease theory means that all illnesses have a knowable cause which can be studied through other sciences, specifically chemistry, and atomic theory is the basis of chemistry.

Sanjeevani Booti accepts all popular assumptions which the international scientific community asserts. We encourage people to know the causes of things, because doctors and healthcare workers alone cannot preserve the health of people who have no understanding of their power to take care of themselves.