As you may be aware, efforts are underway to revisit, comprehend, and ultimately digitize the unpublished research notes logged by the pseudonym allegedly signed as Borodin, no mean feat given the centurial culture barriers blasted apart by the brave volunteers. Although Alexander Shulgin may have cast open landscapes innumerable of both the imaginary manifestations of reality, and the physical attainment of hitherto mere amorphisms, he also found himself at the precipice of a language chasm deep yet narrow: for example, had he needed to verify that his friends and relations could recognize lexicographic racemization in eightth-bit-cleaned compilations of IUPAC nomenclatures - or worse yet, disclaim their own proficiencies in one or another of such disassembly exercises - he may have never encountered the question of how exactly "2CB" decompiles as "brominated two-carbon notafueladditive"... if you're still reading, there's a chance that you remember what I have forgot.
In the hope of finding common understanding, recognizing the preexisting conceptual landscape, and not getting too worked up about whether discussion of how many concepts this list contains is conversation or syllogism, I'll elaborate upon last semester's practical work, starting with my quick rephrasing of instructor comments regarding an educational recreation of four experiments performed just over one hundred years ago, all of which exhibited at the time of their publication an unexpected degree of discontinuity, despite the prevailing theories regarding the nature of the underlying continua:
nb: comments and grades for either student could
apply to the other, since they worked together on
all parts of these experiments, interpretation,
and presentation
in the first week, you arrived prepared,
with questions about the apparati. your
elucidations of the prevailing theories
improved markedly in the second week.
in computing the statistical expectation values,
you performed several computations yet presented
the results of only one. merely listing which
source measurements caused statistical failure is
unacceptable, without discussion of possible
reasons for each measurement's exclusion, and
your grade was reduced for this reason, and for
omitting an additional procedure made possible by
the preassembled wiring of the provided
electromotive forcing apparatus and documented in
the reference notes.
your presentation of the results suffered as
a consequence of disclosing choices leading
to the samples ultimately correlated against
the prevailing theory, a disclosure which
reduced the time available for discussing
alternative wirings.
your reference notebooks are incomplete: roughly
half consisted of rephrasings of the prevailing
theory, and you could have saved ink by specifying
one of the previously published works as a
reference standard; and you failed to detail your
rationale for choices made during experiment,
computation, and debriefing.Since my final grade in that semester was lower than that given by this instructor, above the minimal level considered passing although regrettably closer to that than the perfect score, and quite satisfactory given my policies for allocating study time and mental effort for schoolwork, I consider that to have been a good learning experience.
Incidentally, the numbers relevant for rendering the previous reflection against
the one percent decimal background across half a year of an arbitrary sparse set
of the distinguished portion of a fourfold metric are: '#(63 89 76 87 30 84)
Reconstructing the machine that produced such a trace is neither trivial nor ...
... and in case you were wondering, the four experiments are all spanned by attempts to measure Ohmic impedance of fluids (e.g. Helium, Hydrargyrum) dilute well past chemical inertness, and modulation of such measurements by the nature of the irradiation upon the circuit component emitting the lepton.