Winter 1996
Date
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13Mar96
Dr. Natthi Sharma
The Recipe for Research
Description
The dynamics of research, i.e., observation, hypothesis, analysis, conclusion, and prediction (if any!) will be discussed and exemplified through some experience of my own (a recent new observation in the physics of age-old rolling motion) and the experience of one of the great masters at the frontiers of physics.  It will be emphasized that almost anybody can make it.  What it takes is hard work, persistence, and inquisitive (almost childlike) and receptive mind to catch that flash (a confluence of neurons) and live with it until you materialize it print.  Hence the recipe:

99% hard work and 1% intelligence

So don't be shy or find excuse in the lack of intelligence.  Even if one is not born with it, one can make it evolve.  That is the difference between genes and neurons.  One needs a million years for a change to show up; for the other, a lifetime is enough.
 

 
 
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