1st July 2010, 10:05 PM
True, but then do we give credit to proto-apes for our accomplishments?
It's a shame you heard it on NPR. They SUCK at science and technology reporting. I have no idea how close to accurate they are. It really does sound too good to be true, so sadly it probably is. I mean 3 weeks of observing pendulums? Unless it plugged in observations of the speed of light or something, why would it nail down relativity like that, instead of something like Newtonian physics which also accurately describes pendulum motion (failing in other scales, but not that one). If it managed to find math to describe the operations of a cell, that is AMAZING, but again, I need more than a half-remembered NPR report. Not saying you need to provide it, but heck typing in "eureka physics program" isn't nearly as helpful as it should be...
If they did find a way to do that, then "robots doing all the discovering" isn't a bad thing, since that's a big step to making US the robots.
All in all, I gotta just let this by as a most likely completely poorly remembered (or outright bunk) report from NPR. Amazing if true, but until I see otherwise, I doubt it.
It's a shame you heard it on NPR. They SUCK at science and technology reporting. I have no idea how close to accurate they are. It really does sound too good to be true, so sadly it probably is. I mean 3 weeks of observing pendulums? Unless it plugged in observations of the speed of light or something, why would it nail down relativity like that, instead of something like Newtonian physics which also accurately describes pendulum motion (failing in other scales, but not that one). If it managed to find math to describe the operations of a cell, that is AMAZING, but again, I need more than a half-remembered NPR report. Not saying you need to provide it, but heck typing in "eureka physics program" isn't nearly as helpful as it should be...
If they did find a way to do that, then "robots doing all the discovering" isn't a bad thing, since that's a big step to making US the robots.
All in all, I gotta just let this by as a most likely completely poorly remembered (or outright bunk) report from NPR. Amazing if true, but until I see otherwise, I doubt it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)