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My feeling is that a big part of the physics field is trying to see patterns in noise and equipement artifacts.
by rightbyte 4y ago
My feeling is that a big part of the physics field is trying to see patterns in noise and equipement artifacts.
- nl 4y agoThis is untrue.
- guynamedloren 4y agoI think the idea here is that it happens unintentionally, unknowingly.
- nl 4y agoExcept it doesn't.
- have_faith 4y agoVery large efforts are made to predict noise floors within data, prevent it, account for it, average over it with multiple tests, etc.
- a9h74j 4y agoIndeed, AFAIK part of the progress, even while their are no discoveries being made, is in having a better-calibrated detector. In part, better statistics yield better calibration.