{"id":7068,"date":"2010-11-14T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2010-11-14T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T11:30:54","slug":"7068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7068","title":{"rendered":"Luuucy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Should Be Explained Better?<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the one concept in science that you really think should be explained better to a wide audience?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I imagine the tweet<\/a> got a similar spectrum of responses. And that spectrum, I think, is interesting. It ranges from very general concepts (science asks “how” and “why,” Occam\u2019s Razor and the difference between a hypothesis and a theory, empiricism, science doesn’t prove things, etc.) to general subjects (QM, E&M, evolution) to specific topics within those (decoherence, speciation, spin-1\/2 systems, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle).<\/p>\n

Anyone who has read this blog for a while probably knows I have a spin-1\/2 particle up my, um, other spin-1\/2 particle about how quantum entanglement and teleportation are presented in the press, but I wouldn’t offer that up as an example, simply because it’s too limited. It’s a symptom of a larger problem, and you don’t usually cure the problem by attacking one symptom.<\/p>\n

So I would go with some meta-explanation about science and how it works: how we, as scientists, know what we know. That is, the reminder that what we know and find out in science does not exist in a vacuum, but is built up from accumulated knowledge, and couple this with the explanation about the process \u2014 that we try and figure out how nature works by rigorously testing hypotheses and that we are skeptics (real skeptics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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