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Scientific Method and "The Stone Tape"
Scientific Method and the Stone Tape
The scientific method is a procedure that was developed over centuries to organize the steps in the procedures of scientific investigations. These steps were designed so that the results gathered by scientists would be considered to be verifiable and repeatable, and therefore correct. By using the scientific method, scientists use observations and hypothesis, in order to predict the outcome of an experiment, then conduct that experiment and draw conclusions from the observations of the experiment. ("Understanding and Using the Scientific Method") In other words, the scientific method sees something, hypothesizes about it, tests that hypothesis through experimentation, and draw conclusions from those experimental results. It is used because it demands strict adherence to the steps, and therefore the results can be accepted as real and conclusive. However, many scientists do not always follow the scientific method, and because of this the results of their science is often flawed. One example of scientists not adhering to the steps of the scientific method can be found in the 1972 BBC broadcast entitled The Stone Tape, which involves the story of a group of fictional scientists who...
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Nigel Kneale, in his The Stone Tape, actually expands on an idea first postulated by a Cambridge archaeologist T.C. Lethbridge who theorized that the "physical environment acting as a recording medium for primal emotions…." (Green) In the story a group of scientists were using an ancient building in their research when they observed the sounds of screams. At first they hypothesized they were the sounds of ghosts, but a night of experimentation dispelled that erroneous belief. It is afterward that the scientists then put forward the hypothesis that the sounds were recordings from within the stones of the building itself which acted as an "organic recording medium which plays back directly to biochemical receptors in the brain." (Green) In order to test this hypothesis, the scientists used all sorts of electronic recording equipment in order to capture the sound they "heard," but to no avail. And while one researcher claimed to find messages buried inside the background noise of the recordings, the project is ultimately ended.
At first when the scientists "heard" the sound of screams, they observed a phenomenon, fulfilling the first…
References
BBC The Stone Tape (1972). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069316/
http://www.culturecourt.com/Br.Paul/media/StoneTape.htm
"Understanding and Using the Scientific Method." (2011). The Science Project.
Retrieved from http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/scientific_method.html
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