Scientific method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw
Just about my all-time favorite. Many of the concepts brought up here have gained their own names, for example "you can get any result you want by selecting from random data" - often shortened to selection bias or just selection. The statement that science advances one funeral at a time - related to his discussion of Millikan's results - there have been major equations published and unchallenged for years with a + where there should be a -, and to me, that's damning - it means no one ever actually used that math, though they toss things like psi (the wavefunction) like we all know without discussion all it implies...Dick, whose Feynman diagrams give another look into all subatomic processes and even the double slit experiment, was my kind of skeptic.
Back then a Nobel prize meant somthing more than it does now, perhaps?
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Someone read this on youtube with some nice old pix of Feynman during his life. It's not bad:
https://youtu.be/yvfAtIJbatg
Yes, I'll be getting back to my own science when these stop just dropping into my lap - of course, it won't
be as good or earthshaking as his...but it will be inspired by his way of approaching things.
Credit where due. Sure, this was from a "more innocent" time, though one in which these
very workers had produced atomic weapons. It'd still be a better world if these thought patterns
were in wider use now.
Los Alamos from below - a bunch of cool stories, just still pix
https://youtu.be/uY-u1qyRM5w?t=114
Won't post embedded for some reason, it's long and starts around 114 seconds in.
