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<p class=""><span style lang="EN-US">If you
can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit.</span></p>
<h2><span style lang="EN-US">You’re Either a
Theoritician or a Experimentalist</span></h2>
<p class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">by</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://fwcon.wordpress.com/author/gettingitright/" title="View all posts by Jonathan Gardner"><span style lang="EN-US">Jonathan Gardner</span></a></span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></span><span style lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US">In the Physics community,
Physicists join one of two groups and rarely associate outside of their group
except to hurl invectives and point out the stupidity of the other group.</span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US">On one side are the <em>theoriticians</em>.
These are people who, like Einstein, postulate and pontificate on the meaning
of the observed data, and propose new theories to explain life, the universe,
and everything. Of note, the Nobel Prize in Physics is never awarded to a
theoretician, because the Nobel committee believes theoreticians are a waste of
precious oxygen.</span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US">On the other side are the <em>experimentalists</em>,
who get their hands dirty inventing new ways to torture nature to yield up her
secrets. The most famous experimentalist is Ernest Rutherford, the father of
modern experimentalism. He showed how you can take a team of physicists and
rapidly assemble experiments with reproducible results, all the while improvising
and tweaking what you have already got.</span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US">Theoreticians make terrible
experimentalists, and vice-versa.</span></p>
<p><span style lang="EN-US">In Physics, it would be <em>unthinkable</em>
to have a theoretician and an experimentalist be the same person. If a
physicist came up with a theory and simultaneously created the experiment to
prove it, you can bet that physicists across the world would take that with a
very large grain of salt. Of course, good physicists take every claim
skeptically, and are very good at criticizing other’s experimental methods, but
those where the same person would get professional credit for both the theory
and the experiment are especially dubious.</span></p>
<p>NOTA: Esta comunicacion esta dirigida al dpto de fisica. No tiene sentido
enviarla al dpto de matematica donde son todos pajeros académicos.</p>
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