[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:

> Ok so Kepler says we must measure things, but I can measure anything I like!

Not if your goal is to follow the scientific method of replicating an experiment.
You must measure what the original experimenter measured.

> I may be open then to criticisms of the quality of my measurements, but thats a
> different story. My answers will keep changing, but thats no different from trying
> to measure the position of a particle, each time you ask the question the
> situation is changed, so you cant perform the same experiment twice.

As I understand it, measuring quantum particles is done mathematically using
certain formulas. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_in_quantum_mechanics 

> Repeatability
> is context dependent, and varies in its impact on the quality of the data. 

Is not repeatability essential to the scientific method?




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