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The secret fourth kind is ‘we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.’
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The secret fourth kind is ‘we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.’
What about ‘we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and somehow the results aren’t right and it’s probably our fault’
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny …”
Business as usual, just another day at the lab. People using actual real world samples instead of the expensive standards to produce a very messy calibration squiggle. Also, the machine probably requires some maintenance from time to time.
Should just assume a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum for simplicity’s sake 🤷