In a message dated 6/27/00 3:22:59 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << It's > called a working hypothesis. From it, comes procedural planning, equipment > design, preliminary testing, and data gathering. Finally, a report is written > so that other professionals can review the conclusions to reject or accept > the working hypothesis, or, as is most often the case, a recommendation is > made to have other researchers attempt to duplicate these initial results. Nicely presented, but the foregoing is not speculation. Speculation, conjecture, guesswork, opinion or theory based on presumption or insufficient evidence. From Websters. :-) Speculation is often required when repairing failures due to unknown causes. Thats why techs speculate. Never required when designing. I was a Tech for many years before becoming disgusted with the poor designs I had to repair. Went to collage and became an engineer because of it. Vowed never to make a poor ,difficult to repair design. Most engineers I have known aren't worth spitting on. Yes, I set high standards for myself and expect others to do the same. Bless you Bob Lee >>
Bob: Let me give you a real life example of what I mean. I was involved in the operation of a metallurgical process that required a one million dollar expenditure for a low sulfur reagent because it was thought (erroneously, it turns out) that low sulfur was needed in feed materials in order to pass EPA's SO2 stack gas emission requirements. I SPECULATED that this conclusion was incorrect, used expensive corporate resources to prepare a computer model to provide evidence that the POSSIBILITY existed (still relatively speculative here) that my working hypothesis was valid. Then we ran a full scale test with HIGH SULFUR feed that proved my working hypothesis and resulted in reducing the cost of this feed by about 85%. Roger -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
