Invited Paper RA+AS+CA+PS+TF-WeM5
Reproducibility in Fundamental and Applied Science

Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 9:20 am, Room A124-125

The scientific enterprise operates via a few basic features, including questions, insight, hypotheses, critique, reproducibility, elaboration and revision. All contribute to the process of discovery, none can be taken as the single signature of scientific truth. Discovery science is a dynamic process informed by new observations and continuous refinement of the precision, accuracy, principals and scope of our collective scientific knowledge. History has many examples of significant revisions of previously accepted dogma based on new observations (the earth is flat, matter is infinitely divisible, the stars are fixed). New insights lead to new fundamental principles (energy is conserved, nothing can go faster than light, germs cause disease) that open new opportunities for advancing the scientific frontier and raising the quality of life. Examples of advances of the frontiers of energy science and their implications for reproducibility will be given.