[Donald Meaker]

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0012-9658(197403)55%3A2%3C291%3ASFOLHT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1#abstract

Another paper.

Anyways, yes, I have read that. Mr. Feynman was quite a bongo player. I was just down at Jet Propulsion Laboratory last Thursday. Small world.

[tallhappy]

We make math models, and anticipate the performance of reality.

Yes. Feynman related the story about a seminar where it was mathematically shown what the spin state of a particle was. Feynman believed the arguent it is good and convinced him the spin was one. But someone piped up and said, the spin's not one it's three -- they measured it.

Then we measure the reality, and find that it agrees with the math models.

That's right, as in the example above.

Another Cal Tech anecdote, a young underclassman at one of his first seminars hears his professor growl "where's the data".

You haven't been able to get to the substance other than the model or concept. Where's the data? You've got some nice anecdotes -- which science don't make.

[RadioAstronomer]

I was just down at Jet Propulsion Laboratory last Thursday. Small world.

Do you work at the lab?

I did. :-)