Irony

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Does anyone else think it's funny that the long-discredited Bohr model of electron orbitals is the unofficial symbol of science?

[ecoli]

Does anyone else think it's funny that the long-discredited Bohr model of electron orbitals is the unofficial symbol of science?

 

not to mention this forum. LOLZ!

[Martin]

duh, never noticed the irony

 

but can you think of a better "logo" for science?

 

it ties together 1913 (when Bohr proposed the atom model)

 

and 1514 (when Copernicus first wrote down his circular helio model)

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_atom

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus

 

 

all models are just approximations more or less good, more or less useful

 

you can still use the Bohr model of hydrogen to predict the colors of light it will absorb and emit and it will be approximately right.

 

so it is a symbol of science in the sense that we know it is not exactly right but we can use it to predict stuff and give arf-hassed explanations----which was the same with Copernicus too: there was room for improvement but it sort of worked.

 

maybe that's all science is. maybe.

 

anyway the real question is CAN YOU THINK OF A BETTER SYMBOL or "logo" for the Francis Bacon empirical enterprise of the past 4 centuries or so?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Electron clouds aren't as shiny.