Originally posted by Take-5-JB Photoptimist and others citing reality,
I am a Chemist and my daughter is a Physicist. When we are joking about research, one of the standard pun lines is..."it was modeled as a spherical object in a vacuum at one wavelength and temperature". Reality versus hope. Hope is not a method. Simplified models do not translate well into over-arching multivariate problems. More work is needed and more Nutella!
JB
I think the problem is that articles are written by reporters while scientists are doing the research. And I am not sure who is writing the headlines.
So a scientist says that he has found 'x' gene in mice that is linked to a certain type of dementia and suddenly reporters are spinning it into stories about the possibility of medications to treat Alzheimer's Disease. Here, the story is talking about smaller and sharper lenses, which is definitely not what this researcher was studying and for all we know, the lenses that fix aberrations may be larger than those with aberrations (probably will be)....