Week 1: Post 2 - Reading

CARGO CULT SCIENCE by Richard Feynman

It's really impressive how he talks about minor details of a topic. It's hard to prove if something doesn't happen every time when it is tried. For example, the guy who could bent the keys by just rubbing, when Richard investigated, the guy who could bent the keys couldn't do it. So its hard to prove when theories don't work.

When doing a science experiment, it is always to write down everything even though something suppose to work or its not working properly. It's not what you think, its what you can prove it by doing it again and again and coming up with same results. In a scientific experiment, things dont always work right, most of the time scietist study for a long period of time before coming up with a theory.

Syed