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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious CharacterBut I was convinced by that time that something must be wrong with his experiment, and that he would find itБЂ”heБЂ™s much better at finding it than we would he. ThatБЂ™s why I said we shouldnБЂ™t try to figure it out but just wait. I went to Professor Bacher and told him about our success, and he said, БЂњYes, you come out and say that the neutron-proton coupling is V instead of T. Everybody used to think it was T. Where is the fundamental experiment that says itБЂ™s T? Why donБЂ™t you look at the early experiments and find out what was wrong with them?БЂ«I went out and found the original article on the experiment that said the neutron-proton coupling is T, and I was shocked by something. I remembered reading that article once before (back in the days when I read every article in the Physical ReviewБЂ”it was small enough). And I remembered, when I saw this article again, looking at that curve and thinking, БЂњThat doesnБЂ™t prove anything!БЂ«You see, it depended on one or two points at the very edge of the range of the data, and thereБЂ™s a principle that a point on the edge of the range of the dataБЂ”the last pointБЂ”isnБЂ™t very good, because if it was, theyБЂ™d have another point further along ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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