Re: why not video record all experiments?
- From: dlzc <dlzc1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:44:19 -0700
Dear contempla...:
On Aug 30, 12:08 pm, contempla...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've never heard this suggestion, but.......
it just occured to me that it would be nice....
if I could actually watch a movie of an
experiment and how it was conducted.
This idea sounds so obvious and easy that I
can't figure out why it isn't done for most
experiments
1) "varistor" has a point, that movies can be faked.
2) just as with legal proceedings, this will act to affect the
experiment.
3) many modern experiments involve miles long equipment, with data
being recorded multiple places along the system.
4) scientists don't all appear photogenic, and some of them do
occasionally pick their noses. Even during experiments.
5) many modern experiments take place over days, to months, so then it
would require editing. Which brings up "varistor's" point again...
what (possibly) important stuff did they cut out?
This is why results of experiment are published, including
experimental procedures, so that other researchers can try and repeat
it. Very few experiments are run only once, and by only one group of
researchers. Science isn't quite like an autopsy...
David A. Smith
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