The science is actually extremely cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar … This is the neutron star remnant of the 1054 supernova!
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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]
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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
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Yeah, that’s really great. Fascinating both for its own sake and as nice examples of how science actually gets done: improvisationally!
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This skillful technical situated improvisation is a key aspect of “shop work,” which is critical & most theories of science overlookpic.twitter.com/e5FfNL01Kn
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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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This is trying to say: *to count* as science, C&G have to turn their messy improvised activity into a rational post hoc account.pic.twitter.com/K7MxCKGeEA
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(I meant C&D here—Cocke & Disney, the pulsar discoverers)
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This is pointing at the impossibility of separating subject and object, as your post rightly flagged as centralpic.twitter.com/f8e7e02Nc2
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(They credit this to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who was the foremost phenomenologist of perception. His work is interesting but difficult)
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More mess :) Also, interesting to see how messy the notebook is—lots of crossed-out stuff, post hoc additions, etc (cc: @sarahdoingthing )pic.twitter.com/GiPEp2258d
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Point here is NOT that they falsified anything, or that it should be otherwise, but that scientific rationality DEPENDS ON and EMERGES FROM
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the mess of embodied, situated, improvised, practical, social activity, which is not itself reducible to rational norms in its details
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