Re: Gum hardening: top down experiment ( pointlessness)

 Sandy

Your view that top down hardening was essentially self evident was one I, for
one, supported..

I could see your reasons for wondering how one might be able to make use of
exposing gum prints from the back..

It was also important to establish some kind of scientific discipline in
conducting tests.

What I could not see was why you appeared to be supporting another test to
demonstrate the blindingly obvious, wwhatever Mike Ware may say. These so called
tests are far to often a waste of space. Part of the scientific discipline
should be an assessment of whether the test was likely to serve any purpose.
All too often the tests imposed upon us indicate that a little more
understanding of how dichronmated colloids are affected by light would have meant that
the tests would not even have been thought of. Peter Marshall has commented on
the 'screen' tests. The detailed discussion of this stuff drives good
people away.

As to Mike Ware, he does become annoyed if people question his judgements,
But others question the knowledge on which those judgements are based.
Sometimes, in his attacks on others, one has reason to question his knowledge of the
most basic aspects of photography and thus of anything else.. To continue your
religious allusions, people have too much faith in the supreme guru. There seem
to be unquestioning desciples.who quote hs dicta as if they were burned in
stone..

There was some quite strong disagreement among those questioning these
tests.. We do not qualify as a band of angels singing from the same hymn sheet. What
I do wish though is that we could avoid these tests whose purpose seems to be
the equivalent of the schoolmen argiung how many angels could dance on the
head of a pin (not an oib). It was a waste of time in the 13C and it is waste of
time now.

Terry

In a message dated 13/4/06 4:39:06 am, sanking@clemson.edu writes:

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Received on Thu Apr 13 05:27:41 2006