On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:43 -0700, Anne Paulson wrote: > So then if you timed me and Bradley Wiggins on the same course, with a > stopwatch, you couldn't tell that he was faster, because maybe you > weren't quite accurate with the stopwatch? No, you could easily tell, > because the tiny difference in the stopwatch pressing would be > overwhelmed by the fact that he is twice as fast as I am. > > Similarly with the tire tests. The differences between tires, > surprisingly, were very large. Whatever small noise got introduced by > stopwatch pressing was overwhelmed by the large measured differences > between slower tires and faster ones. > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Robert Zeidler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Unless you can guarantee no variance in wind speed or direction, however > > slight, or that the finger depressing the stop watch button at the exact > > same second, every single time, just to cite two of many variables, what you > > have is a Boy Scout Merit Badge project, not anything remotely resembling > > real research.
And Galileo's experiments were Boy Scout Merit Badge projects too, and not real science, for the same reason? Anne's right. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
