On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Neville Michie <namic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do not be misled by the conventional theory that scientists develop a theory > and then do an experiment to prove it. > This theory was dreamed up by some vertical thinker who was incapable > of any scientific progress.
Yes many people wear two hats. I've worked on (a small part of) a launch system that sent a couple spacecraft to Mars. I'm NOT doing science when I do that I'm refining technology. Later I think about how it is that humans and other higher animals can relate what they see to what they hear and make diagrams to explain a theory, that is science. So , yes people can do many things and switch tracks hour by hour. Sometimes they can in effect kill two birds with one stone. But one should not confuse building a ground penetrating radar with using one to collect data to verify (or not) a theory. Many times the same person both builds and uses the radar so the fields have always been tightly coupled, advances in engineering enable advances in science that feed back to advances in engineering. But even if tightly coupled they are not the same thing. One gives us better "stuff" and the other gives us better understanding of nature. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.