Which is a more correct representation of a beloved member of your life—an audio recording, a photograph, a video recording, a pencil sketch, a realist portrait painting, or an abstract painting? That’s the question I keep asking myself every time I think about analogies, metaphors, and representations in physics. The classic example of a representation …
The idea of mapping information is heavily used and widely favored today. There are mind maps, geographical terrain maps, all manner of mathematical graphs to map relationships, and maps for “landscape analysis” used to summarize the state of the art in many fields. But it turns out that when I look around the discovery literature …
It occasionally strikes me of just how many mythical notions I had about how researching discovery, fusing it with my own neutrino research, and putting it on “The Insightful Scientist” site would work. Perhaps “pre-conceptions” or “ideas” would be a better word. Which has me thinking about ideas. I’m currently part of what is known …
When I first started reading and thinking about how to actively, meaningfully, and systematically foster the frequency and pace of discovery in my own work I was of two minds. In psychology there is a line of thought which compares a child with a scientist, albeit with different degrees of content knowledge. In this picture, …
For a long time, I’ve been drawn to the idea of a “spark.” I know where this began. My long-time love and fascination with the Walt Disney World character Figment, as in “a figment of your imagination”. Only in the Disney story, a man by the name of Dreamfinder makes Figment real. More to the …