[Phys-L] Re: What is Scientific Process?

[jlu at HEP.ANL.GOV (Jack Uretsky)]

Perhaps this will help.  Go to:
http://www.hep.anl.gov
Then click on theory,  Click on the various names that you see there.  You
will see bios, and lists of publications.  Browse around so that you can
see what "scientists" are doing and what they are claiming.

Then go to http://www.anl.gov
browse around some of the other divisions at Argonne.  Some are doing
science, some are doing engineering.  See what you can learn about how day
to day science is being done.
                                                Regards,
                                                        Jack

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Peter Craft wrote:

> As Jack aludes below, the question of what is the "scientific process"
> looms large in the ID thread.  Also as I wrote earlier that I am required
> to teach students (quite rightly) about the way that scientists do their
> work.  Our mandatory syllabus makes this clear when it says we need to
> cover:
>
> 5.2     the nature and practice of science
> c)      apply scientific processes to test the validity of ideas and
> theories
> d)      describe how an idea can gain acceptance in the scientific
> community as either theory or law
> g)      identify that the nature of observations made depends upon the
> understanding that the observer brings to the situation
>
>
> My question still stands, and I really would like some input in this...
> What is the scientific process that this syllabus assumes exists???  Are
> the distinctions made in the syllabus real?
>
> Regards
> Peter Craft
> HT Science
> Corowa High School
>
> > I cannot state too strongly how much I object to Larry's out of context
> > partial quote of my posting.  My posting consisted of two contrasting
> > sentences which were intended to be read together.  The context of the two
> > senttences included the "standard" AAPT definition, which I don't find
> > very enlightening.
> >
> > Misrepresentation, Larry.  Bad, Larry, really bad.
> >                                        Jack
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Larry Smith wrote:
> >
> > > At 2:59 PM -0500 8/29/05, Jack Uretsky wrote:
> > > > I have no idea what "science" is,
> > >
> > > For such cases I included the standard AAPT definition of science.
> Others
> > > may prefer their own, although I don't think the AAPT definition is a
> bad
> > > one.
> > >
> > > Larry
> >
> > --
> > "Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
> >                General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
> >                just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley

--
"Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
                General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
                just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley