The solar eclipse
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Articles Tagged with probability
At long intervals
Building on the floodplain
The most dangerous things are those that don’t come often enough.
What are the chances?
Examining the data
Ghosts of future theories
A village in space
Sometimes the answer is no
When finding nothing is something
In science, coming up with the answer is often the easy part.
The Sun, clouds and people
Levels of predictability
The recent solar eclipse demonstrates much more than astronomy. (Image: one page of Guy Ottwell’s The Under-Standing of Eclipses, available here)
The ancestral line
Genealogy and history
Some people put tremendous effort into extending and filling in their family trees. In the end, what purpose does it serve?
Proving nothing
Narrowing it down
Proving that something doesn’t exist is hard, though it can be done. More often, scientists work out more and more restrictions on the characteristics something can have, until the idea has no place left to hide.