<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am a physics junky from way back and like to know stuff. I like any field of science where a question is asked and there is exactly one right answer, expressed as a number. Those fields of science feel so fair and equal to me, the only places in our creaky old species where equality and justice always prevail, where everyone has a perfectly equal shot at getting the right answer. spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Here's a little story a chemist told me once: in his class there was a student problem which produced various answers. So he did that experiment four times and came up with a different answer each time, none of which were the same as the one in the textbook lab manual. Maybe the chemicals were polluted in some way, or the lab instruments were old, or the chemist was sloppy, but the fact remained that there WAS no one answer to that problem. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">I know that deep in your hearts, you physics people hate psychology and any other science wannabe area whose errors are to the left of the decimal place, while yours are way to the right. But you are not exactly that pure either, OK? It is good that you are obsessed with getting the right numbers, a trait psychologists should follow, rather than jumping to publication with one result.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">I ran my Master's experiment ten times and got the same thing every time before my mentor was satisfied. We try.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 9:19 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-5847657196722226699WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 18, 2018 6:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Interesting book<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard <a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a><span class="m_-5847657196722226699gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Wrote:</span></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-5847657196722226699gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> </span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In his spare time, a lay person researches the most accurate publically-available book on the bombs dropped on Japan. </span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>The book’s simply called “Atomic Bombs”.</i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That really does look like an interesting book, I just ordered it from Amazon. Thanks for the tip, I'd never heard of it before.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">#Me Too!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks SR! I hadn’t heard of this book, but I am a physics junky from way back and like to know stuff. I like any field of science where a question is asked and there is exactly one right answer, expressed as a number. Those fields of science feel so fair and equal to me, the only places in our creaky old species where equality and justice always prevail, where everyone has a perfectly equal shot at getting the right answer. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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