tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post2419521633839001059..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: SummertimeEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-4435361156283043352010-06-18T01:40:33.413-04:002010-06-18T01:40:33.413-04:00Phd comics is pretty funny.
I've especially...Phd comics is pretty funny. <br /><br />I've especially come up with #6 when smoking out a bug (this is in an engineering context). Initial hypothesis(s) were all wrong and after through investigation finding you are all wet on your initial ideas is not unusual. But like the comic says, you'll never find it in a published paper, and if you can help it, you'll never tell your manager.Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-71336983077684921392010-06-16T15:09:40.476-04:002010-06-16T15:09:40.476-04:00So are you actually in favour of seeing number 1 a...So are you actually in favour of seeing number 1 and 6 of<br /><br />http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1312<br /><br />?<br />crandlescrandleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15181530527401007161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-29517563802036641582010-06-16T01:48:55.812-04:002010-06-16T01:48:55.812-04:00Let's not forget that Bauer also has made a ca...Let's not forget that Bauer also has made a case for the Loch Ness monster. I kid you not<br />http://henryhbauer.homestead.com/LochNessFacts.htmlMarcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07262670367947223521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40170987052597303582010-06-15T23:22:30.649-04:002010-06-15T23:22:30.649-04:00I would not cite Henry Bauer as an authority in th...I would not cite Henry Bauer as an authority in the philosophy of science.<br /><br />He has become a conspiracy theorist, an HIV Denier and an AGW 'skeptic'.<br /><br />http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/Chris Noblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78527258398432771872010-06-15T09:31:43.906-04:002010-06-15T09:31:43.906-04:00Snow Bunny says:
The Davisson-Germer experiment, ...Snow Bunny says:<br /><br />The Davisson-Germer experiment, that verified De Broglie's suggestion of electron diffraction, is a classic.<br /><br />Their paper describes candidly how they came by a result they had not intended to look for. I read the paper when I was an undergraduate and was much amused at the description of broken equipment.<br /><br />http://www.acolytescience.co.uk/origins/DandG.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-79237373862776984332010-06-15T05:56:34.114-04:002010-06-15T05:56:34.114-04:00Steve Bloom,
Thanks, the moniker is the product ...Steve Bloom, <br />Thanks, the moniker is the product of my wife's fertile (febrile?) imagination. She is much more creative than I am. It is symbolic of my research--to find the transformation that has been applied to reality (a ray in Hilbert space) that has transformed it into the surreality it has become.a_ray_in_dilbert_spacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-4951610048334227472010-06-15T00:05:58.131-04:002010-06-15T00:05:58.131-04:00BTW, ray, I've been meaning to say: Best hand...BTW, ray, I've been meaning to say: Best handle ever.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-29238213947230370252010-06-14T09:03:36.280-04:002010-06-14T09:03:36.280-04:00I think that the real distinction here is between ...I think that the real distinction here is between "science" and "doing science". They really aren't the same thing at all. Indeed, if you look at it, science is really a fairly orderly progression in our state of knowledge of the system under study. We begin with an impenetrable mystery and solve it by slowly penetrating it. We explore it almost dendritically, look at which branches yield fruit and expand our efforts there. What we report is what survives, as that is probably what is most useful to our peers. <br /><br />The almost stochastic exploration we make on the way to a discovery--that's doing science. It is what we as scientists experience in our daily lives. But it isn't science any more than the daily experience of a lawyer is The Law.a_ray_in_dilbert_spacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-45861301474992760332010-06-14T08:17:16.315-04:002010-06-14T08:17:16.315-04:00Of course, one of the hard things to teach graduat...Of course, one of the hard things to teach graduate students is to avoid trying to publish all the twists and turns they had to follow to get to the end. Just because they had to suffer, the reader needn't also. <br /><br />In the grand scheme of things, to move forward in research we need to mark the correct path, not all the dead ends. <br /><br />Nevertheless, I agree with Peter Medawar and you--we spend too much time making it look like we knew where we were going from the beginningmlylenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51571823722518413182010-06-14T07:05:24.908-04:002010-06-14T07:05:24.908-04:00I experienced science education in the US, albeit ...I experienced science education in the US, albeit some time ago. I am now retired from a genuinely nondescript "career" in science. I have not kept close tabs on the state of current science education.<br /><br />From this entry it appears that perhaps the "story of science" AND the "funding of science" should be rolled into a formal course that is finally required of all first term graduate students. I know such a dose of reality would have helped me at that stage.<br /><br />John PumaJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12479974040070719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-7507835563695527762010-06-14T06:47:30.877-04:002010-06-14T06:47:30.877-04:00At least the average scientific paper does better ...At least the average scientific paper does better on this than the average mathematics paper... In math it's a steady procession of lemmas, theorems and their proofs with no hint of wrong turns or purposes or the fact that the mathematician went through hundreds of pages of scribbled equations and perhaps some computer analyses to arrive at this hyper-sanitized version of the truth.<br /><br />But I think it's natural that the story of science differs substantially from the output of science - those are really two quite different things. Science journalism is where the story should be told...Arthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06249922708053689717noreply@blogger.com