{"id":4748,"date":"2010-06-07T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/07\/everything-is-better-with-expe\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:50:58","slug":"everything-is-better-with-expe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/07\/everything-is-better-with-expe\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Is Better With Experimental Physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my write-up about the Hidden Dimensions<\/a> panel, I mentioned in passing that:<\/p>\n

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I also would’ve liked to see an experimental physicist up there, to provide a little more grounding about what the actual problems are, and how you might hope to look for something. But then, I always think there should be more experimental physicists involved in everything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to be traveling today, so I thought I would throw up a filler post offering a list of things that would be improved by the inclusion of an experimental physicist. Then I realized that that would be kind of difficult, as everything<\/em> is improved by the inclusion of an experimental physicist. Politics (empiricism, pragmatism, ability to do math), art (ability to devise new technologies for making art, plus most experimental set-ups look really cool), theoretical physics (grounding in observable reality)– all are better with experimental physicists than without.<\/p>\n

So, instead, consider this an open thread to speculate about the possible existence of things that wouldn’t<\/em> be improved by the inclusion of an experimental physicist. There’s a good chance that no such thing exists, but trying to find one could be an interesting experiment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my write-up about the Hidden Dimensions panel, I mentioned in passing that: I also would’ve liked to see an experimental physicist up there, to provide a little more grounding about what the actual problems are, and how you might hope to look for something. But then, I always think there should be more experimental… Continue reading Everything Is Better With Experimental Physicists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-physics","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}