--- "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why?
>
> Dunno -- maybe because it takes no thought, it's
> just regurgitating
> opinions which one already has.
I guess. It is more rewarding, I think, to do
experiments, however. Even if they don't do anything
revolutionary (most never will, and I know that), it
is a lot of fun.
Heck, last night consisted of two friends coming over
to:
1. Help me machine metal parts for an experiment.
2. Experiment with pyrodex charges to power said
experiment (impulses directed against a certain
apparatus...[Newton would roll in his grave hehe])
3. Cook food over a nice wood fire (grew the wood
myself, so this is zero carbon...don't fling darts at
me, people.)
4. Discuss construction and design of a very large
(and unusual) antenna for another experiment, while
they guys had a couple of cold Guinness. Refined man
that I am (cough), I stuck to Vonnegut's Breakfast of
Champions.
In short: science is fun.
> believing Mortimer was any kind of adequate
> experimentalist, not because
> he did experiments wrong, but because when he got
> results which flew in
> the face of 300 years of other people's results he
> just casually assumed
> *they* were wrong and *he* was right, without either
> trying really hard
> to find the source of his (very likely) error or,
> apparently, without so
> much as wondering how everybody else could have been
> so far wrong.
Okay, now I see what you're getting at. You're not
taking exception to the experiment itself, or even the
(admittedly small) chance it is a real anomaly, but
how he 'took it and run with it'. He did sort of
transition instantaneously from kiddie pool to Olympic
high dive, without first checking if the pool was
actually a shark tank.
> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I realize that.
>
> So, I admit to it in this case. And I won't say
> anything more about it
> with regard to Mortimer's effects, OK?
BTW, who's Mortimer? Heh, I'm only kidding. I know you
meant Morton.
Anyways, I do not know what he found, exactly. I think
the two effects (which seem conventional) that I found
probably combined to confuse him.
--Kyle
