And yet...I find that this post inspires a curious lack of curiosity on my part. After having read it, I don’t know any new techniques for discerning non-mysterious answers from mysteries, and I haven’t received any testable hypotheses. Telling someone that it’s their fault for not being curious as to the ultimate underlying equations which explain lightbulb works when they know what it’s made of, what gross physics processes power it, and how to make one out of [strike]buckets and pebbles[/strike] some basic electronics supplies, is not a good way to optimize their time, or your own. Yes, other people’s explanations are sometimes wrong, but often enough, they are right. Inputting externally-produced data into an equation is a valid solution method, as is ignoring extraneous data that does not directly pertain to the situation at hand.
And yet...I find that this post inspires a curious lack of curiosity on my part. After having read it, I don’t know any new techniques for discerning non-mysterious answers from mysteries, and I haven’t received any testable hypotheses. Telling someone that it’s their fault for not being curious as to the ultimate underlying equations which explain lightbulb works when they know what it’s made of, what gross physics processes power it, and how to make one out of [strike]buckets and pebbles[/strike] some basic electronics supplies, is not a good way to optimize their time, or your own. Yes, other people’s explanations are sometimes wrong, but often enough, they are right. Inputting externally-produced data into an equation is a valid solution method, as is ignoring extraneous data that does not directly pertain to the situation at hand.