Me being pissy

Today duing my chemistry class, I heard some redneck fraternity guy mention that "physics was pointles, stupid, and has no purpose". So I am going to write on my blog all of the things (ie technologies we use on a daily basis) that EVERYONE can thank a physicist or the laws of physics for! If you want clarification on the physics involved or who developed it, let me know and I will do some research.

1.) Electricity
2.) Television - CRT
3.) Satellites - you can thank Einstein and his theory of relativity!
4.) The photoelectric effect - for the ass hat in my chemistry class, that calculator that you are using has a solar panel in it, which uses requires the photoelectric effect... again THANK EINSTEIN! Einstein won the nobel price for discovering the photoelectric effect.
5.) Head phones for your ipods - piezoelectric effect discovered by Pierre and Jacques Curie
6.) Tires - if it wasn't for the coefficient of kinetic friction, your cars would fly off the road
7.) ELECTRONICS - capacitors, transistors, resistors... and the list goes on and on
8.) Computers - see above
9.) Telecomunications - since so much information is sent through satellites and fiber optics these days
10.) Life - you can thank the laws of physics inside the sun for being here. If it wasn't for the proton-proton chain occuring inside the sun there wouldn't be life on earth. Most of the life we encounter on a regular basis requires energy from the sun, food. Plants get the energy from the sun and we then eat the plants. Either way, without the sun we would freeze to death
11.) Computers
12.) GPS - for all you lovers of the war in Iraq right now. If it again wasn't for Einstein and the use of satellites, we couldn't be as effective in war with out the use of GPS units, which again requires the use Einstein's theory of relativity because of the time flows different in space... Can't do triangulation without the proper information...
13.) Modern Materials - this field is more chemistry than physics... but I consider chemistry to be a subset of physics in a way...
14.) Remote controls - because we all hate getting off the couch to change the channel
15.) Clocks - we couldn't tell time these days without the use of atomic clocks... one of these clocks are located in every since GPS satellite.
16.) X-rays - We need x-rays to see the bones in our bodies
17.) CAT scans - use of huge magnetic fields
18.) Contact lenses - the use of optics
19.) WW II - We wouldn't have ended WW II with the Japanese if it wasn't for the atomic bomb
20.) Cold War - you can blame the physics of the A-bomb on the cold war...
21.) The moon - if it wasn't for the moon and the physics involved the earth might not be what it is today

Since I am tired of writing the reasons why, I am just going to type out the technology
22.) Lasers
23.) Radars
24.) Radios
25.) Smoke detectors - most people don't know this, but they have a radioactive source in their homes... it's gives off alpha rays, but it is completely safe since they can't even get through a piece of paper... :D
23.) Rainbows
24.) Lightning
25.) Carbon dating
26.) Diamonds
27.) Anything buld by an engineer
28.) Roller coasters
29.) Electric motors
30.) Telephones


To that redneck that said that physics is stupid and pointless, just think about this, if it wasn't for a physicist you wouldn't be enjoying the the fine things in life that we have today that wasn't around 100 years ago. If it wasn't for science in gerneral... we wouldn't have shit today... not a damn thing... Think before you open your mouth.. if you have that ability...