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On 7/2/2022 4:09 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 7/2/2022 4:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 7/2/2022 11:34 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: The Universe by Scientific Field
https://xkcd.com/2640/
A little exaggeration there. I mean, there is gotta be some time for
engineering all the scientific stuff.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2640:_The_Universe_by_Scientific_Field
Engineering is applying what the Scientists have learned. :P
Yup, been doing that for almost 50 years now.
And I have learned a fact over the years. If the PhD says something is
an approximation, watch out ! The edge conditions will eat you alive.
A high school chemistry teacher like to tell us that the way science
advanced is when the older, more experienced scientists would say "Oh,
we know that this is what will happen when you try that", some student
or younger scientist tries "that" and gets something other than "this"
at which point the more experienced scientists go "Wait, what? Lemme
see that!". :D
He'd also ask the class a question and if no one answered quickly enough
would say, "Well, what is it? Yes? No? Maybe so? I don't know?"
The semester I had him it was the first class of the day for me. I'd
sit at my desk in the front row, put my head down and kind of doze.
Until he handed out tests. Then I'd finish the test in half the time
any one else took and go back to dozing. Got straight A's in the class.
He never gave me any trouble for seeming to not pay attention. Hee hee.
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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