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It is also much more likely for such a discovery to appear at the edge of our knowledge where our understanding of the rules is at least a bit fuzzy (like near
by WJW 8y ago
It is also much more likely for such a discovery to appear at the edge of our knowledge where our understanding of the rules is at least a bit fuzzy (like near black holes and whatnot). Something like EmDrive, which is in a regime that has been exhaustively tested, would be like discovering that Bin Laden was hiding in the Oval Office all along.
- roywiggins 8y agoAnd the reason you didn't notice him was you needed to stand on your head and close one eye while chanting "abracadabra" before he could be seen.
- sebnap 8y agoAnd then you found out about Operation Cyclone and your allusion gets some cracks!
- cecilpl2 8y agoWhich is really hard to do, because there aren't any corners in it. You need pull a Comey and hide in the drapes. EDIT: Apologies for the incorrect wording, I want to point out that you should stand AMONG the drapes, not IN the drapes.
- marcosdumay 8y ago> It is also much more likely for such a discovery to appear at the edge of our knowledge This instantly reminds me of the Casimir Effect. Yes, it's way more likely for problems to appear at the edges of our knowledge. But discoveries within the noise of experiments people run every day are not unheard of. I would also expect any such discovery coming from public science made by somebody wondering why their instruments are off, not by for-profit research looking for patents. But that's not unheard of either.
- Florin_Andrei 8y ago> discoveries within the noise of experiments people run every day are not unheard of. That's also at the edge of the parameter space we're familiar with.
- marcosdumay 8y agoThis one is on the edge of low noise measurement of torque. In fact, the entire exercise pushed the edge way lower than it was.