Re: Oggi è la data ufficiale di morte della "scienza"

Inviato da  ivan il 2/6/2012 18:39:43

Su www.scribd.com una collezione di licenze poetiche che hanno dato inizo ad una nuova era, quella della supremazia dell'apaprenza sulla sostanza ( o del far carriera facilmente che dir si voglia) : link

Una delle piu' belle licenze poetiche prese è questa :


Dissertation for PhD -1905

Albert presented his dissertation “A New Determination of the Molecular size”(ETH) , on the determination of the Avogadro’s number based on sugar melted in water. The calculation goes on for 12 pages and it forms the bulk of his dissertation.
“Here he showed a good grasp of the principles of hydrodynamics” his professors said, but his mathematical programming turns into a series of errors.

The editors of the modern edition of Albert's Collected Papers had to put 30 footnotes to correct the mathematical mistakes. Now we find that his physical assumptions were deeply flawed: he assumed that the sugar molecules are at rest in the water and do not rotate. According to kinetic theory, sugar molecules must have a random velocity of 140
m/s and a comparable rotational velocity.


Conclusioni:

The dissertation was approved by the examiners who never read it


Facile far carriera così.