Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
Phil Plait: Secretul descoperirilor științifice? Greșelile comise
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of misconceptions about science --
greșite despre știință,
is just a big old pile of facts.
de adevăruri e una dintre ele.
that's not even the goal of science.
acesta nici măcar nu e scopul științei.
dar nu acesta e scopul ei.
but it's not the goal.
is to understand objective reality
e înțelegerea realității obiective
is that people are flawed.
is a way of minimizing our own bias.
astfel să ne diminuăm prejudecățile.
more than is probably useful,
mai mult decât era poate necesar.
is you want to observe something ...
with an idea that may explain it:
care să aducă aceste răspunsuri:
the colors from the ocean.
culoarea oceanului.
the ocean color,
in the middle of the country."
you leave Denver on a nice gray day,
ce zboară de la Denver către LA,
and the sky is gloriously blue.
think about how to test it
la cum să o testăm de mai multe ori.
to a different part of the country
is to talk to other people.
să vorbim cu alți oameni
different perspectives,
cu perspective diferite,
save you a lot of money and a lot of time,
timp și bani
just to check the weather.
pentru a verifica vremea.
does a decent job but not a perfect job?
e decentă dar nu perfectă?
is you can modify it a little bit
this whole process again --
you will hone this idea.
perfecționăm această idee.
by the scientific community,
de comunitatea științifică,
evidence comes along.
is admitting when you're wrong.
face parte din acest proces.
is that it's done by people,
că e făcută de oameni,
to do a really good job.
pretty well because of science.
destul de bine datorită științei.
is that it's done by people,
că e făcută de oameni,
along with us when we investigate things.
impedimente atunci când facem cercetare.
suntem superstițioși,
and scientists are humans.
iar cercetătorii sunt și ei oameni.
when we're studying science
de asta când facem știință
to develop our theses.
on Hubble Space Telescope,
cu Telescopul Spațial Hubble,
came to me with some data,
a venit la mine cu niște informații
there may be a picture
ar putea reprezenta o imagine
another star in this data."
of planets orbiting other stars yet,
cu planete ce orbitează alte stele,
if this thing were a planet or not.
dacă era o planetă sau nu.
and stars are bright,
sunt mai strălucitoare decât planetele,
the signal out of this data
în aceste informații
in a heavy metal concert --
o șoaptă la un concert heavy metal...
couldn't do it.
this is a planet or not."
dacă aceasta e o planetă sau nu.
follow-up observations with Hubble,
noi imagini făcute cu Hubble
or galaxy, something like that.
o galaxie sau ceva asemănător.
but that sucked.
dar a fost tare neplăcut.
we can't do this with the data we have."
cu informațiile pe care le avem.”
showed we were wrong.
dovedeau că am greșit.
is doing their job correctly,
își face treaba corect,
there's still more stuff out there --
că mai sunt multe lucruri de descoperit,
but we love puzzles,
să greșim, dar iubim enigmele,
the biggest puzzle of them all.
enigmă dintre toate.
no matter how you move it,
nu se potrivește nicicum,
when you have to let go of your idea
the bigger picture.
lucrurile în ansamblu.
is admitting when you're wrong,
e asumarea greșelilor.
examples of this in science,
de asemenea exemple din știință,
that had been plaguing astronomers
care i-a chinuit pe astronomi
it seems special.
chemistry, thermodynamics for centuries,
fizică, chimie, termodinamică,
very important about it.
despre el:
millions of other stars.
in the "planet" I was looking for,
de a găsi planeta pe care o căutam,
pretty clever people
of different techniques
that were pretty interesting,
lucruri destul de interesante
of what they were able to detect.
a metodelor disponibile,
it was shown to be wrong.
Andrew Lyne, pardon me --
Andrew Lyne, scuzați-mă...
orbiting another star.
that has previously exploded.
unei planete care explodase,
you would expect to find a planet,
unde ne-am aștepta să găsim o planetă,
looked at this pulsar,
of this planet as it orbited the pulsar.
a planetei în timp ce orbita pulsarul.
another star had been found ...
o altă stea fusese găsită...
commented on it,
and looked at their data
a very embarrassing mistake.
o greșeală stânjenitoare.
for some very subtle characteristics
anumite caracteristici foarte subtile
this planet going around the pulsar.
a rotației planetei în jurul pulsarului.
account for it correctly,
o sarcină cumplită.
Astronomical Society meeting,
a Societății Americane de Astronomie,
of astronomers on the planet,
ale astronomilor din lume,
that he had made a mistake
că făcuse o greșeală,
for his honesty and his integrity.
și integritatea sa.
is a man named Aleksander Wolszczan
Aleksander Wolszczan,
didn't find a pulsar planet,
o planetă orbitând un pulsar,
orbiting a different pulsar.
and yeah, ours are real."
noastre sunt reale.”
orbiting this pulsar
ce orbita acest pulsar,
exoplanet system ever found --
descoperită vreodată,
around a star more like the Sun,
orbitând o stea asemănătoare Soarelui,
orbiting an actual star.
unei planete orbitând o stea.
specifically designed to look for them.
special create pentru a le căuta.
four planets orbiting another star.
ce arată patru planete orbitând o stea.
in the universe on two hands --
planetele cunoscute din univers:
there could be three, five, ten planets.
pot fi trei, cinci, zece planete.
may outnumber stars in the galaxy.
mai multe decât stelele din galaxie.
and the observatories and the data;
observatoarelor și informațiilor;
who built the observatories,
care au construit observatoarele,
build on their mistakes
din greșelile lor
our place is in the universe.
when it dares to be human.
îndrăznește să își accepte umanitatea.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Phil Plait - AstronomerPhil Plait blogs at Bad Astronomy, where he deconstructs misconceptions and explores the wonder of the universe.
Why you should listen
Phil Plait is the Bad Astronomer. Not a bad astronomer, but a blogger for Slate who debunks myths and misconceptions about astronomy -- and also writes about the beauty, wonder and importance of fundamental research.
He worked for six years on the Hubble Space Telescope, and directed public outreach for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. He is a past president of the James Randi Educational Foundation, and was the host of Phil Plait's Bad Universe, a documentary series on the Discovery Channel.
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