[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[Laycock, Jos (OSPT)]

That is what I am attempting to discover!

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> 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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