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Hey, a small advice for the future: never build your belief entirely on a youtube video of a demo. In fact, never build your belief based on a demo, period. Th
by felippee 8y ago
Hey, a small advice for the future: never build your belief entirely on a youtube video of a demo. In fact, never build your belief based on a demo, period.
This is notorious with current technology: you can demonstrate anything. A few years ago Tesla demonstrated a driverless car. And what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I'm willing to believe stuff I can test myself at home. If it works there, it likely actually works (though possibly needs more testing). But demo booths and youtube - never.
- paul_milovanov 8y agoYour advice would be a lot more convincing if you had a youtube video of a demo to come with it. Just saying. :P
- tensor 8y agoYou can't test most of high end physics at home. I hope that doesn't mean you don't believe it!
- Ngunyan 8y agoWe're talking here of technology, something that can be turned into a product, and not black holes, for example.
- shub 8y agoA lab publishes an exciting result, what does the physics community do? Wait for replication. Or if you’re LHC, be very careful what you publish.
- sanxiyn 8y agoIn theory, there are two separate experiments (ATLAS and CMS) on LHC because of this. In practice, they are probably not independent enough.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoIt's probably a good idea to ignore high-end physics results for a few years, though. The BICEP2 fiasco is a good example why.