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"Veritasium" (YT) - "The Big Misconception About Electricity" ?
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penfold:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on March 11, 2022, 02:18:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: adx on March 11, 2022, 06:24:24 am ---Your noted misconceptions about the development of the transistor do not alter the fact that it was still advanced hacking.
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What those guys did was what physicists do all the time. If you want to change its name to "advanced hacking", I have no problem with that.

A Nobel Prize in advanced hacking sounds way cooler than a Nobel Prize in physics, anyway.


--- Quote ---I'm just against the 'physics is the source of all engineering' claptrap, as if it's an unavoidable 1-way street.
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OK. So name an engineering field that doesn't have its origin in--and/or whose current tenets weren't shaped by--science. Civil engineering, perhaps? Certainly not electronics. Electronics is drenched with physics and math.

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For the benefit of those in the audience, can you clarify the point you're arguing?

It appears that you're attempting to argue that physicists are better at physics than engineers are at physics - I simultaneously hope and hope-not for that to be the case.
TimFox:
Before I retired, I generally found that others were better at their jobs than I was at their job, but I was better at my job than they were at my job.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: penfold on March 11, 2022, 02:28:29 pm ---For the benefit of those in the audience, can you clarify the point you're arguing?

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Sure.


--- Quote ---It appears that you're attempting to argue that physicists are better at physics than engineers are at physics - I simultaneously hope and hope-not for that to be the case.

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No. What I'm trying to dispel is the idea that physicists made some important discoveries a while ago, engineering took over and now physics lags behind the advancements made by engineering with incomplete theories.

This is far from the truth. Physics is not only at the origin of modern engineering, but also still drives important advancements and even revolutions.
TimFox:
By the way, I do not believe that the 20th Century was the "dark age of science", based on my life during the second half of the century, my reading of the history of science, and my use of "modern physics" in practical situations.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on March 11, 2022, 01:14:09 am ---I think the main question is: how can I use your theory to reduce my electric (or is that electic) bill?

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Since electrons are apparently some kind of hugging photons - if I got it right - you could probably get free electricity by asking those photons to give free hugs.
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