Discovery fiction
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- Jan 3, 2023
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To help me understand a scientific result, I often find it helpful to write what I call discovery fiction. By this I mean: a plausible story of how I could have discovered that result – an arc of small questions and ideas, false starts and backtracking, incremental steps eventually leading to the res...
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To help me understand a scientific result, I often find it helpful to write what I call discovery fiction. By this I mean: a plausible story of how I could have discovered that result – an arc of small questions and ideas, false starts and backtracking, incremental steps eventually leading to the result. None of these things should come out of thin air: they should all be simple, almost-obvious steps.