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The uttermost essence of science is, exactly, distrusting what you think you know, and what anybody thinks they know. Literally all progress has come from disco
by angiosperm 3y ago
The uttermost essence of science is, exactly, distrusting what you think you know, and what anybody thinks they know. Literally all progress has come from discounting what somebody just felt dead certain about.
So, I know better than to base the self-assessment of my sanity on having been right.
Pompeii probably had a public library, but any scrolls that were in Pompeii, unlike in Herculaneum, burned to fine powder. And, any that were rescued from the eruption finally decayed and are lost; almost all of those, we don't even know the titles of.
- verisimi 3y agoSo why are you giving me a hard time? You should be agreeing with my suggestion that if this mechanism works, it should be possible to do in a reproducible way! As per my suggestion of running it over a burnt newspaper. Then we can all see that this process isn't simply conjuring something out of white noise. Right?
- angiosperm 3y agoI repeat that I have been able to read text on burnt newspaper before it crumbles. Try it yourself, instead of guessing.