“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” -Richard Feynman
Every few months now, the popular press goes wild with claims that there’s a new engine out there, one that produces thrust without any exhaust, violating the fundamental law of conservation of momentum.
Image credit: NASA Spaceflight forums, via Chris Bergin.
While science is, fundamentally, an experimental endeavor, this is far, far more likely to be a case of our own, human failings than it is a case of revolutionary new physics. There are distinct patterns we fall into that allow us to fool ourselves, and the root of it is that we, ourselves, simply do not have the resources and capacities to become experts in everything, and yet we do not trust those who have done exactly that.
Image credit: Mark Rademaker, privately (via Twitter) at https://twitter.com/yard2380.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1kju8oT
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” -Richard Feynman
Every few months now, the popular press goes wild with claims that there’s a new engine out there, one that produces thrust without any exhaust, violating the fundamental law of conservation of momentum.
Image credit: NASA Spaceflight forums, via Chris Bergin.
While science is, fundamentally, an experimental endeavor, this is far, far more likely to be a case of our own, human failings than it is a case of revolutionary new physics. There are distinct patterns we fall into that allow us to fool ourselves, and the root of it is that we, ourselves, simply do not have the resources and capacities to become experts in everything, and yet we do not trust those who have done exactly that.
Image credit: Mark Rademaker, privately (via Twitter) at https://twitter.com/yard2380.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1kju8oT
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