Also regulated are high-precision scientific equipment needed to assemble bombs.
MAX TEGMARK Physicist, researcher, precision cosmology; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; author of Our Mathematical Universe I was seduced by infinity at an early age.
"We looked for examples that go from the precision of scientific and botanical illustration and plant portraits that tell the whole story of a plant, to the more emotional approach of botanical painting and flower painting".
What was overturned at Harrisburg was not science, whether of the 18th or any other century, but pseudo-science - the pretense that the actions of tens of thousands of human beings can be regulated with the precision of scientific theory.
Although he admires the precision of scientific information, he wonders if what it delivers is always bound to be "something less than the vague poetic" (Journal, 1/5/50).
Consequently, the current practices of uncertainty analysis contribute to increasing the perceived precision of scientific knowledge, but do not adequately address its lack of socio-political relevance.
GNSSs have been extensively employed in many areas, including precision agriculture, scientific research, environment monitoring, emergency and disaster assessment, safety assurance, positioning of celestial bodies, construction engineering and natural resources, and smart transportation.
Model selection was guided by goodness-of-fit plots, pcVPCs, parameter precision, and scientific plausibility.
If not, then the interface between science and policy needs to be re-designed, lest misdirected policies be based on a false precision of scientific inputs.
The changes are recorded with scientific precision.
