[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

This is what happens when you do science by calculation instead of science by observation.

[muir_redwoods]

"This is what happens when you do science by calculation instead of science by observation."

In physics, at least, we are more that 100 years beyond the point where we are dealing exclusively with the observable. Much of atomic theory had to be worked out without direct observation of the atom.

Observation is nice when you can get it but some things are just not observable.

[AFPhys]

Best critique of these guys I’ve seen.