In <004901ccb6dc$d0dd5bd0$72981370$@us>, on 12/09/2011
at 07:41 PM, Jim <[email protected]> said:
>Somewhat of a similar experience but in the early 60's, my
>professors' (physics and chemical) believed that
>experiments were merely a course of steps (process / action) to prove
>or disprove a theory (hence, as with
>your experience, there were no failures... unless ofcourse, you
>simply did not experiment).
I would regard an experiment as a success if others with comparable
apparatus can reproduce your results and as a failure if they cannot.
There's a 3rd alternative, but then you have to dress in a monkey suit
and make a speech to the king.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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