I’m asking to try to imagine yourself as an atomic theorist who has access to the state of knowledge of atomic theory in 1942. Obviously that can’t be done perfectly, but my thought was that by modeling what you would have predicted vs what actually happened, some insight can be had about how “unknown unknowns” effect projects of that scale.
I’m asking to try to imagine yourself as an atomic theorist who has access to the state of knowledge of atomic theory in 1942. Obviously that can’t be done perfectly, but my thought was that by modeling what you would have predicted vs what actually happened, some insight can be had about how “unknown unknowns” effect projects of that scale.