Ep. 6: Importance of Failed Experiments

How does science approach failure and ignorance? What is an experiment? What can we learn from a failed experiment? How ignorance plays a relevant role in science and technology? I discuss these and related issues in this episode. References : 1.       Chalmers, Alan Francis. What Is This Thing Called Science? Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2013. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/What_is_this_Thing_Called_Science/WQh5wDlE8cwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover. 2.       “Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light, by Albert A. Michelson.” Accessed June 8, 2023. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11753/11753-h/11753-h.htm. 3.       “History of Scientific Method.” In Wikipedia, May 8, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_scientific_method&oldid=1153802180 4.       “Edward W. Morley.” In Wikipedia, April 15, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_W._Morley&oldid=1149891428. 5.       “Dayton Miller.” In Wikipedia, November 12, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dayton_Miller&oldid=1121492015. 6.       Kumar, G. V. Pavan. “Importance of a Failed Experiment.” Scatterings (blog), September 8, 2019. https://backscattering.blog/2019/09/08/importance-of-a-failed-experiment/. 7.       NobelPrize.org. “The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907.” Accessed June 7, 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1907/michelson/facts/. 8.       “Scientific Method.” In Wikipedia, June 9, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientific_method&oldid=1159248399. 9.       Swenson, Loyd S. The Ethereal Aether; a History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. http://archive.org/details/etherealaetherhi0000swen. 10.  Firestein, Stuart. Ignorance: How It Drives Science. Oxford University Press, 2012. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Ignorance/GbD052_PH0cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover.