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Au contraire,
It applies as well to experimental science. The experiment you
design, or the observations you make are all done within the context
of your belief system, so there are lots of ideas and
expectations...I tend to avoid the h word.
When M and M did the speed of light work...actually they were tryingIsn't the issue with this particular discussion one of objectivity?
to measure the velocity of the earth relative to the ether, the
expection was that they would get a result. When they did not, they
looked to experimental error, and worked to improve their
experiment. Twenty five years later, after Einstein et al. the
person who was the then president of the APS repeated the experiment,
and got a positive result. But the dogma had changed, so he looked
for experimental error. Had his result been obtained 25 years
before, he would probably have not done so.