Thanks! :) Astro is rather poetic, I reckon. Technically astronomers are still experimentalists, it's just that their lab is really really far away. And hey, there's the Trek thing too!
Technically astronomers are still experimentalists, it's just that their lab is really really far away.
I hadn't thought about it that way. I like it. :)
And don't forget the time delay in obtaining results! If other scientists had to wait years, decades or centuries to observe something, we'd never make any progress.
And hey, there's the Trek thing too!
That just serves as an example of the dangers of a little bit of knowledge. ;) (Actually, I can't think of too many egregious errors in astrophysics that I would have caught, though I'm sure their explanation of string theory was a little simplistic. Most of their scientific errors tended to be things like increasing the volume of heartbeats by a "factor of one to the fourth power," or using stars that can't possibly have planetary systems that could sustain life. ;) )
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I'll totally be reading that and publishing a reply :P
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"On the ethics of plasma-based weapons." :D
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that is so freaking exciting!!!!!!!
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good luck with Japan btw! OHMYGODs how I would love to go. XD
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(Okay, that's not quite true... but the vast majority of my interest in physics is in the area of astrophysics.)
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Astro is rather poetic, I reckon. Technically astronomers are still experimentalists, it's just that their lab is really really far away.
And hey, there's the Trek thing too!
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I hadn't thought about it that way. I like it. :)
And don't forget the time delay in obtaining results! If other scientists had to wait years, decades or centuries to observe something, we'd never make any progress.
And hey, there's the Trek thing too!
That just serves as an example of the dangers of a little bit of knowledge. ;) (Actually, I can't think of too many egregious errors in astrophysics that I would have caught, though I'm sure their explanation of string theory was a little simplistic. Most of their scientific errors tended to be things like increasing the volume of heartbeats by a "factor of one to the fourth power," or using stars that can't possibly have planetary systems that could sustain life. ;) )
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This will hopefully offset a much later part of my life, wherein I hope to do nothing but write poetry on a beach. :D
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