Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses — through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.
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It’s science, bro!
Crash course!
*SUPER secret to scientific discoveries*
Phil plait astronomy
I remember him from CrashCourse!!!
Making mistakes may or may not help with scientific discoveriy. Scientific discovery is locating, identifying and analyzing both MISTAKES AND PREVIOUS OMISSIONS in understanding of what things are and how they work. Not so much just making mistakes, but locating and figuring from them regardless of who made them.
This would’ve had a very different vibe yet contain the same factual message if it was delivered by a scientist at..Ratheon.
What, you mean my analysis of people near me on the bus that responded when I criticized their shoes isn’t enough to form a conclusion about the happiness of dog owners that recently quit smoking? Well, there goes millions of dollars of research grants!
Did you also do this to dog owners who didnt quit, non dog owners who did quit, and non dog owners that didnt quit? And control groups? (Mayne dog owners who quit smoking that you dont criticize, and maybe a randomized group)
Also, do have a way to correlate happiness to their reaction to your criticism?
Do you have a standardized way of criticizing their shoes?
Did you put this on Google podcast before uploading it here or am I wrong?
Grongratulations frontal Brazil. Nice vídeo!
They say I look like an animated hero.
Is it true?
Yeh you are really look like an animated character, oh my god you’r eyes are really big you can’t be human lol
I remember when I was 6 and I found out the sun was a star. I was like…. No way! The sun is the sun! A star is a star! And when I thought of stars, I legit thought that stars looked like your typical 5 pointed star, like something you would draw or what was on top of a Christmas tree….
The reason result is not science but the methodology is.
first picture of a black hole was brought to the public and you are talking about exoplanets.. pfff, old farts
Hey it’s the goat man
yet again another TED talk that doesn’t talk about what it says in the title