{"id":8845,"date":"2011-06-02T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2011-06-02T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T08:00:17","slug":"remember-mpebma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8845","title":{"rendered":"Remember Mpebma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the easily-forgotton tenets of science, or perhaps a commandment:  <em>Remember thy assumptions, for they may fail to hold<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2011\/05\/31\/mpembas-baffling-discovery-can-hot-water-freeze-before-cold-1969\/\">Mpemba\u2019s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e see an admirable open-mindedness of Professor Osborne in his dealings with Mpemba, and that open-mindedness would quickly benefit them both.  Conversely, we see a dangerous \u201cgroupthink\u201d amongst Mpemba\u2019s classmates regarding science, in which they are genuinely offended by Mpemba questioning the status quo.  Mpemba shows great wisdom in his answer: \u201cTheory differs from practical\u201d.  This is an important point for anyone studying physics: we like to create simplified models to explain nature, but those models often lose real-world aspects in the process of stripping them down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the easily-forgotton tenets of science, or perhaps a commandment: Remember thy assumptions, for they may fail to hold. Mpemba\u2019s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) [W]e see an admirable open-mindedness of Professor Osborne in his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}