{"id":4480,"date":"2019-10-12T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:37:11","slug":"the-sole-test-of-any-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/the-sole-test-of-any-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sole Test of Any Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191008_171708-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191008_171708-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191008_171708-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191008_171708-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191008_171708-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspirational physicist Richard Feynman once said &#8220;the sole test of any idea is experiment.&#8221; I prefer the formulation &#8220;the sole test of any idea open to observation is experiment,&#8221; because opening our ideas to observation &#8211; rather than relying on just belief, instrumentation, or arguments &#8211; is often the hardest challenge in making progress on otherwise seemingly unresolvable problems.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspirational physicist Richard Feynman once said &#8220;the sole test of any idea is experiment.&#8221; I prefer the formulation &#8220;the sole test of any idea open to observation is experiment,&#8221; because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,257],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-science","tag-the-science-devotional","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}