much has been written about the joy of being precisely right about a hypothesis or a theory. In the early 1900s, Einstein’s proposal of the constancy of the speed of light would spectacularly validate earlier experimental observations made by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley. (“If the Michelson-Morley experiment had not brought us into serious embarrassment, no one would have regarded the relativity theory as a [halfway] redemption,” Einstein would write later.) But there’s a second kind of joy in science: the peculiar exhilaration of being precisely wrong. It is an equal and opposite
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