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 …
In my first-round literature search on what is scientific discovery, which yielded about thirty items, there were many well-known items like Thomas Kuhn’s ever-recycled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I culled that to a first reading list of twelve, with one goal in mind: compile definitions of what constitutes a “scientific discovery”. This proved more …
Every master needs a repertoire. Jazz players, tennis players, chess players and more, all have a repertoire. A repertoire has two parts: content and skills. When I graduated with my Ph.D. in physics I thought I had a sufficient repertoire to be able to return to the question that had piqued my interest a decade …
I have in mind a way to foster cross-pollination and more interdisciplinary interaction among the sciences (both physical and social). Initially, I had a hunch that such cross-pollination might be the key to my own discovery efforts as well as to that of others. This is a little bit obvious in the case of researching …
For an overview of the ARTEMIS project status, click here to be taken to the ARTEMIS (VR Software) page. I’m finding the most difficult (and intimidating) part of pursuing discovery to be coming up with new ideas, at least on days when my “systematic mind” is team lead. On these days I stick to knowns …
How do I set my mind to make a scientific discovery? And why bother? I suppose it goes back to my Ph.D. advisor’s old advice, “work on the problems that keep you up at night.” Many years ago I heard a fascinating idea proposed in neutrino physics, one that would change not only the field …