The Kubota B3350 was created by engineers. So was the 6.0 put in the Ford '03-'06. Not to be outdone, there was the 6.4 put in the Ford '08-'10 ... the first really bad DPF solution in a Ford. Not really picking on Ford and Kubota. I could have chosen different brands. Really, it's too easy to point out failures in most industries created by engineers.
Likewise with science ...
Nobody knows everything, and there are lots of people with lots of confidence that don't know everything either.
Nobody knows everything - not you, not me, not any of the scientists in this world. Scientists and engineers are people and people make mistakes. But physical science and the scientific method is the foundation of human understanding of the world around us. Repeated measurement and replication of results is how the scientific community confirms results and establishes confidence in our measurements.
I am sure you remember when the folks at the CERN Hadron Collider reported they had observed neutrinos moving faster thsn the speed of light.
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Einstein and a hundred years or so of physics was suddenly proven wrong. But they kept looking, kept testing their equipment and methods, and after over a year of collabrative work identified faults in two of their instruments. The neutrinos were not moving as fast as initially thought. No agenda, no self agrandizing posturing, just people dedicated to furthering our understanding of the universe and the world around us.
It's what has allowed us to build a civilization and acheive spectacular things like putting a man on the moon and a space station in orbit around an earth that our human perceptions told us was flat. It's what has allowed us to split the atom and unleash and control enormous amounts of energy. These are feats l inconceivable a mere hundred years ago. It's not perfect, it occassionsly takes the wrong fork in the road, but it's self correcting and has ptoven itself to be extremely trustworthy.
Shortly after I retired from NIST the folks there announced completion and deployment of a new Watt Balance that is now the international measurement standard for the kilogram.
The old lump of metal in France has been retired and replaced by a machine buried in the NIST nano lab just a few hundred yards from my old office. It can measure the new standard, Plancks constant, to 35 places of precision. The young lady that lead this project has no political or social agenda. She is a professional dedicated to a life of science. There are many thousands just like her all around the world that help make all of our live's better
In this 2016 video, NIST physicist Darine Haddad uses a cup of coffee and sugar cubes to explain the significance of Planck’s constant. In 2017, after this video was recorded, NIST measured a new value of the Planck constant with an uncertainty of only 13 parts per billion. This measurement contribu
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I am deeply saddened when people with their own political or social agenda attempt to undermine confidence in the community of world class profesdionals like her and the processes and methods that have given man dominion over his world. It truly is a sad sign of the times.
