Physicists, meet the papers!

We've gone to a dipper topic for today, one that is very relevant for us physicists: writing technical papers. Writing scientific papers is not new for almost all of us since many of my classmates including me have had already the experience since we were in high school level. I can still remember how grueling it was writing those papers... when you will burn the midnight oil just to finish a single page and by tomorrow you would only taste the words of criticism from your teacher when you didn't get what they want… the voluminous revisions that blotted so many red inks in my paper. Oh! How fresh those memories are to me. That's why I’m feeling a little anxious when the discussion opened up and we were told that we were going to write our own scientific paper based on the activity that we did on air track. I tell you that I’m no good in writing. Actually it is my frustration to write because i easily run out of words. And not just words, oftentimes, it is the motivation to write that lacks in me.

But for us to become a full-pledged scientist, we all need to learn how to write and express or show our ideas, analyses, and findings, and apply it for the betterment of mankind. I know a lot of famous scientists who rose to stardom because of the impact of their publications. For an instance, Albert Einstein, a clerk on a Swiss patent office strucked the scientific community and the world with his paradigm-shifting revision of Classical Physics and many other great discoveries in 1905, which is often termed as the "miracle year". His works on General Relativity served as an avenue for the existence of what they call the “Modern Physics”. Einstein would have remained a lowly clerk hadn't he published and shared his works to the humanity. On the other hand, Principia Mathematica, one of the greatest scientific papers in human history ever published was written by Sir Isaac Newton, one of the pillars of Classical Physics. Publications, indeed is a significant part of being a physicist to the point that it serves sometimes as the sole basis of how productive a scientist is.