On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:21 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
I am not sure anyone has a good answer to your question Ed. I do not care > what theory they are operating upon at the moment as long as they keep > plugging away. That's right -- it should be like Newton's method for finding the roots of a real-valued function. You pick some starting point -- anywhere, really, as long as it is not too far afield -- and then you plug away, Edisonian-like, gradually narrowing down the possibilities without being dogmatic about what has been set aside, since new information may come to light that causes one to reevaluate previous evidence. In this context I don't see much use for hewing to a specific theory when approaching a very challenging problem. Anything is beloved that delivers, even heavy electrons. ;) Eric
