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Maxwell equations

Thanks for your message. I'll try to elaborate on that AJ interaction term. To give you an idea, the lagrangian for matter will have a kinetic term with covariant derivative |∇φ|^2 , ∇=d-A as written in the next section, which includes a term of the form A*(derivative of matter field φ) ~ AJ. Then variation w.r.t. A will yield φ∇φ ~ J. (sorry for bad formatting, connected via mobile phone) — MFH:Talk 17:44, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Hypothetico-deductive model

It's about limitations of the model. All models have limitations. Surely, you must be aware of this. Viriditas (talk) 10:32, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

You are bringing up an important point which ought to be aired on a more public page. If you prefer another place, fine. I propose the talk page of the hypothetico-deductive model as the venue.
As a starting point for the discourse at that venue: a model explicitly recognizes that the scope of the domain of discourse is limited. Sometimes called a 'toy problem'. It is more modest than some category subject to scope creep.
I am travelling today so my silence may be beyond my purview. Feel free to hold forth at the venue. I will watch for a response. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 10:47, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

NRA

Fixed it, I think, pretty much! Thanks for catching it. cheers Middle 8 (talk) 09:18, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Very very sorry!

I apologize for my comments on the Wikipedia talk:Categorization page. I was stupid and didn't read anything carefully. I'm very sorry and hope you'll forgive me. Star767 17:05, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

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Parmenides

Hi Ancheta. The article on Parmenides says:

His dates are uncertain; according to Diogenes Laërtius, he flourished just before 500 BCE,[4] which would put his year of birth near 540 BCE, but Plato has him visiting Athens at the age of 65, when Socrates was a young man, c. 450 BCE,[5] which, if true, suggests a year of birth of c. 515 BCE.

I wonder what Popper thought - I'll look. Myrvin (talk) 06:46, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Popper writes: "Parmenides of Elea, who lived about 515-445 bc". Perhaps we could put an 'fl.' in front. Myrvin (talk) 06:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Diana Nyad's Birth Name

Why don't you want to put Diana Nyad's birth name (Sneed) at the top of the page? Esszet (talk) 02:29, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

You just now used more words to explain your rationale than you did in the reverted edit. That edit does not conform to MOS:Biographies first mention, because you did not provide a first name, nor did you provide a citation for it. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 12:18, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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A tear of pride rolls down my cheek when I see the people I nominated for adminship over half a decade ago keeping up the good work. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

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I need some backup

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A new editor has been using a pre-QM conceptual scheme to make dogmatic changes in the double-slit article and also the Delayed choice quantum eraser article. He seems to hold me in contempt. I have no desire for an edit war to break out, but I can't seem to get this guy to work through things or go back to the published materials. Thanks.

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Scientific method and epistemology

Hi Ancheta (is that your name?),

I think we have indeed been talking past each other, and I did not want to pollute the article's talk page. So I thought this would be a better place to understand each other. I would have preferred email and you can reach me at dpleibovitz@ieee.org if you like. You are welcome to delete/edit this local thread or copy it back into Talk:Scientific method as you feel worthwhile.

I have always been better at ideas than in writing, so I want to take the opportunity to explicate my request fully.

What I wish to do

  1. I do not wish to modify (for now) the textual content of the two articles Scientific method and Methodology
  2. Instead, I simply want to add the category Category:Epistemology to both of them.
  3. However, if categorization requires textual changes, then I hope someone can do so better than I

What confuses me

I do not understand why you bring up the concepts of truth and double slit experiments. Please clarify.

Rational for my proposal

Firstly, my proposal may be WP:OR and relate to my worldview that is fundamentally about change, but I believe I am also expressing common knowledge. I am less interested in what a topic is, than in changes to that topic.

I believe that science and epistemology (part of philosophy and ignored by many scientists) should be much more closely associated. Without change, one could say

  1. Defining/describing the scientific method is doing epistemology, but the scientific method itself is one of many Category:Epistemological theories (we did say it is actually an umbrella for a set of theories, but it does have method in its title)
  2. Using/applying the scientific method is doing science (and not epistemology). Many scientists do exactly that and many care very little about philosophy in general and epistemology in particular beyond passing interest.
  3. Topic categories are for finding things. A scientist would never look for scientific method via epistemology and may not care that the scientific method is an object of scrutiny by philosophers - they have numerous objects of scrutiny. Thus, a scientist would not care to see the label "epistemology" within the categories of the scientific method.

However, the situation is different under change. Almost all scientists at some point are unhappy with specific methodologies they use and try to improve them. When a scientist attempts to change the scientific method (or their specific experimental paradigm), then the scientist is doing epistemology (even if they do not know that they are doing so). If I want to improve the scientific method and look up the article, I would like to find at least the category of epistemology. Better would be some textual discussion as well.

Change is one kind of use, and I'm not sure Wikipedia has policies for usage categories - although once named they become topics. However, change is also ubiquitous and possible all articles should be connected to things that influence their evolution. Again, influencers are also a different kind of categorical association. And are, in some sense, in the opposite direction. If epistemology influenced science, then science (as a topic) is made up of epistemology and epistemology would be a subcategory of science, rather than science being a subcategory of epistemology as I suggested! But such influences are often bidirectional.

In the case of the scientific method, perhaps one should (instead) add textual content to the effect: the scientific method evolved over a long time period with contributions by scientists and philosophers alike, although the separation between science and philosophy is recent. While many improvements to the scientific method have come from scientists, the formal study of these improvements is within a branch of philosophy called epistemology.

I guess, at the end of the day, when a scientist attempts a methodology improvement, they should be aware of a large relevant body of literature called "epistemology". Some do, many don't. It is certainly not in the article.

Wikipedia is not prescriptive (as I exceedingly am), but it may simply be a matter adding informational content in a neutral fashion.

PS. At this time, I don't think we are debating anything. You can ignore my suggesting completely and don't need to find common ground or consensus. I am interested in knowing if I have clarified matters (do you understand me?), and I don't mind if your clarify your use of double slit, but only if you have free time.

Thanks, Dpleibovitz (talk) 19:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it's my name; I lived in Wisconsin for 23 years, until Feb, hence the account name.
It may be coincidence, but there is a relationship between truth and optics. A thousand years ago, Alhazen asked: "How does light travel through transparent bodies? Light travels through transparent bodies in straight lines only.... We have explained this exhaustively in our Book of Optics. But let us now mention something to prove this convincingly: the fact that light travels in straight lines is clearly observed in the lights which enter into dark rooms through holes.... [T]he entering light will be clearly observable in the dust which fills the air. – Alhazen, translated into English from German by M. Schwarz, from "Abhandlung über das Licht", J. Baarmann (ed. 1882) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Vol 36 as quoted in Sambursky 1974, p. 136.
  • He demonstrated his conjecture that "light travels through transparent bodies in straight lines only" by placing a straight stick or a taut thread next to the light beam, as quoted in Sambursky 1974, p. 136 to prove that light travels in a straight line.
  • David Hockney, (2001, 2006) in Secret Knowledge: rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters ISBN 0-14-200512-6 (expanded edition) cites Alhazen several times as the likely source for the portraiture technique using the camera obscura, which Hockney rediscovered with the aid of an optical suggestion from Charles M. Falco. Kitab al-Manazir, which is Alhazen's Book of Optics, at that time denoted Opticae Thesaurus, Alhazen Arabis, was translated from Arabic into Latin for European use as early as 1270. Hockney cites Friedrich Risner's 1572 Basle edition of Opticae Thesaurus. Hockney quotes Alhazen as the first clear description of the camera obscura in Hockney, p. 240.

"Truth is sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for anything for its own sake are not interested in other things. Finding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough." – Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham 965 – c. 1040) Critique of Ptolemy, translated by S. Pines, Actes X Congrès internationale d'histoire des sciences, Vol I Ithaca 1962, as quoted in Sambursky 1974, p. 139. (This quotation is from Alhazen's critique of Ptolemy's books Almagest, Planetary Hypotheses, and Optics as translated into English by A. Mark Smith.)

I think it takes a deep thinker, like Alhazen, to address epistemological issues. It takes a lot of horsepower to lift the weighty issues of epistemology, and it may be simpler to restrict the domain of definition just to clarify the issues. In that sense, the scientists have the advantage over the epistemologists. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 08:44, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Citadel spread and Plumpy'nut

Hello Ancheta -- as a third-party editor on these two pages, please review and edit, if suitable, to avert WP:3RR by Barnardwoodpecker. Thanks for your participation. --Zefr (talk) 22:01, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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"Science war"

You have a friendly way to deal with mavericks like me, however the current voices on the talk page don't go into detail but dismiss anything I might write. I would prefer to see less of a cold topic ban but have a serious discussion of my suggestions. I will ad some of the work on the Alhazen entry, and I am looking forward to further constrictive feedback from your side. Serten II (talk) 20:16, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Science Draft Brainstorming

I put a bunch of markers into the draft. I'm looking for something that is different, but inclusive. I'm also flexible, looking for other inputs, and learning what works best for collaboration. So I will take a break for a bit now. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 20:51, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Ancheta, I find the Outline of Science useful, but I don't think it needs to be in the talk page. I'd like to suggest that it be removed from there so that we can use the page to "talk" without having to scroll all the way to the bottom of the outline. Seem reasonable? Isambard Kingdom (talk) 21:49, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Universe

Ancheta, I'm involved with the Universe page, with some interesting discussion at Talk:Universe concerning the lead section of that important page. Perhaps this is interesting to you too? If so, please consider contributing. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 22:23, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Mark A. Smith

Can you please stop infusing Smith in to every article related to Science or Scientific method. Seems like self promotion to me. For example: Science, Scientific method and Ibn al-Haytham. Moorrests (talk) 15:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

For the record, I am not A. Mark Smith. Nor do I have any kind of relationship with him whatsoever; I came upon him through Shmuel Sambursky, whom I cite in Scientific method. And I have not cited Smith in Scientific method. Smith has spent some 40 years on medieval science. He dominates right now because David C. Lindberg died this year. It took Smith real strength of purpose to devote so much of his life to something of historical interest only. His work has not gone unnoticed: he is now a Curators' Professor at University of Missouri — Columbia. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 12:26, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
What I have notice is the Mr. Smith is a critic of every single Islamic or Muslim scientist especially Ibn al-Haytham. He seems to have refuted achievements of all the Muslim scientists. This alone should exclude all the references from Mr. Smith. Moorrests (talk) 14:59, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
To describe Smith as a critic of Ibn al-Haytham totally misunderstands Smith's academic career. After studying with Lindberg, he produced the first critical edition of the Latin version of Alhacen's principal optical work, translated it into English, and also wrote many works spelling out Alhacen's influence on the development of optics in medieval Europe. Smith knows Alhacen's work far better than some of the overenthusiastic popularizers. He is one of the most highly qualified sources on Ibn al-Haytham. SteveMcCluskey (talk) 15:45, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
@Moorrests, It's the other way around.
  1. Aristotle defined science. His ontology of four causes defined how we ought to think. (But it has taken 1000 years to show a better way. Scientific method)
  2. Ptolemy and Euclid: Ptolemy had the experimental method. Euclid had deduction.
  3. Ibn al-Haytham started with Ptolemy and Euclid.
  4. Ibn Sahl was one generation older than Ibn al-Haytham, but for some reason Ibn al-Haytham didn't reproduce Ibn Sahl's experimental law of refraction. Ibn al-Haytham just gave the experimental setup without results. Why? Was he too old? Did he not believe Ibn Sahl? Ptolemy gave experimental data on refraction. So Ibn Sahl had refraction right, 600 years before Descartes. I was really worried that Smith didn't seem to have any mention of Ibn Sahl. But I think that Smith 2015 mentions him.
  5. Smith 2001 gives Ibn al-Haytham credit for hypothetico-deductive method, especially for checking your work, or filling-in gaps in understanding.
  6. Smith 2015 p.180: "The geometrical analysis of sight and light had reached a level of sophistication beyond that of the Greek sources, especially Euclid", p.181ff: Chapter 5 Alhacen and the Grand Synthesis. I think it's pretty clear that Smith is fair.
I am interested in what Smith will have to say about Aristotle. Will he be critical?
--Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 16:55, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Recursive definition of science?

I think my edit of the Science wiki page puts "scientific" inside the brackets to avoid overemphasizing "scientific". If you search for the word "scientific" in the Science wiki page, the word "scientific" is all over the Science wiki page. Would you undo all the edits that have "scientific" in the Science wiki page, like scientific theory or scientific method in the Science wiki page?

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I think you are doing a fine job But I think you are on the wrong page. Book of Optics would befit greatly as what we have there now lacks details about what he proved and how he demonstrated. I put a great deal of weight on Smiths criticism of Wikipedia and the fan club (also his criticism of the anti fan club) We need editors like you who read the sources. J8079s (talk) 22:58, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. :-) Book of Optics is thankfully not the mess it was a couple of years ago, but I agree that it's still missing a lot. Sunrise (talk) 06:39, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Scientific method

Hi Ancheta Wis - a beautiful name!

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Tardigrades

Hi, I used the Convert template Template:Convert to show the temperatures in both °F and °C. I'm a little suspicious of the lower limit given - it's close to absolute zero, and unfortunately the website referred to makes my browser crash when I try to read it. DuncanHill (talk) 14:02, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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