[time-nuts] science projects

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 23:20:44 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Neville Michie <namichie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do not be misled by the conventional theory that scientists develop a theory
> and then do an experiment to prove it.
> This theory was dreamed up by some vertical thinker who was incapable
> of any scientific progress.

Yes many people wear two hats.

I've worked on (a small part of) a launch system that sent a couple
spacecraft to Mars.  I'm NOT doing science when I  do that I'm
refining technology.   Later I think about how it is that humans and
other higher animals can relate what they see to what they hear and
make diagrams to explain a theory, that is science.

So , yes people can do many things and switch tracks hour by hour.
Sometimes they can in effect kill two birds with one stone.   But one
should not confuse building a ground penetrating radar with using one
to collect data to verify (or not) a theory.   Many times the same
person both builds and uses the radar so the fields have always been
tightly coupled, advances in engineering enable advances in science
that feed back to advances in engineering.   But even if tightly
coupled they are not the same thing.  One gives us better "stuff" and
the other gives us better understanding of nature.

-- 

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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