Selectivity And Discord
Two Problems Of Experiment
Published on 17. November 2002
303 pages
978-0-8229-7070-5 (ISBN)
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Selectivity and Discord addresses the fundamental question of whether there are grounds for belief in experimental results. Specifically, Allan Franklin is concerned with two problems in the use of experimental results in science: selectivity of data or analysis procedures and the resolution of discordant results.By means of detailed case studies of episodes from the history of modern physics, Franklin shows how these problems can be-and are-solved in the normal practice of science and, therefore, that experimental results may be legitimately used as a basis for scientific knowledge.
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Allan Franklin is professor in the Department of Physics at University of Colorado. He is the author of numerous books, including Are There Really Neutrinos? An Evidential History; Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment; and No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Selectivity and the Production of Experimental Results
- 1. Measurement of the K+e2 Branching Ratio
- 2. Early Attempts to Detect Gravity Waves
- 3. Millikan's Measurement of the Charge of the Electron
- 4. The Disappearing Particle: The Case of the 17-keV Neutrino
- 5. Are There Really Low-Mass Electron-Positron States?
- 6. "Blind" Analysis
- II. The Resolution of Discordant Results
- 7. The Fifth Force
- 8. William Wilson and the Absorption of B Rays
- 9. The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector: Two Different Results from One Experiment
- 10. Atomic Parity Violation, SLAC E122, and the Weinberg-Salam Theory
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
