How a categorizable object emerges gradually from nebulosity through situated interpretation: the essence of ontological accomplishment!pic.twitter.com/kp1Rl6NnAI
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How a categorizable object emerges gradually from nebulosity through situated interpretation: the essence of ontological accomplishment!pic.twitter.com/kp1Rl6NnAI
Thanks, pointing out these bits is helpful! Making another cup of tea and then will try again...
Maybe something I can actually understand will emerge from nebulosity
Is it OK if I live-tweet my reading? It’s an interesting text for me; may be less relevant for you!
OK I’m now going to look into the scientific background. Turns out this was the FIRST optical pulsar observation, and it was a big deal
> because it was extremely unclear how pulsars could work, and the hope was optical observation would constrain that. Was a race to find one
The science is actually extremely cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar … This is the neutron star remnant of the 1054 supernova!
Here is the post hoc version of the discovery: interviews for pop-science audience. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/mod/pulsar/pulsar1/01.html … [ten web pages]
I got completely derailed by this! Didn't know the story of the optical discovery, was cool to read about the tinfoil hack and 2*pi errors
Yeah, that’s really great. Fascinating both for its own sake and as nice examples of how science actually gets done: improvisationally!
This skillful technical situated improvisation is a key aspect of “shop work,” which is critical & most theories of science overlookpic.twitter.com/e5FfNL01Kn
BTW Philip Morrison (Cocke’s PhD supervisor) taught my intro MIT physics course. It was first thing in the morning and I learned nothing :(
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