Other Examples


There are, unfortunately, lots of other examples I could delve into. Each one would require a few paragraphs, and this chapter grows long already. I have heard numerous misstatements concerning the dual nature (wave-particle) of light. The discoveries within the last 40 years in Chaos Theory have been incorrectly quoted to (once again) invalidate Newton's Laws. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, around 70 years old, is sometimes used to justify our inability to prove something. And in the computer science arena, Turing's Machine is frequently used to demonstrate undecidability[13] in areas where it has no applicability at all. The late scientist Stephen Jay Gould wrote extensively on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution has been widely quoted and generally misunderstood. All of these fundamental theorems are profound, and all of them are betrayed when used in situations in which they absolutely don't apply.

[13] The notion of "undecidability" refers to the impossibility of writing a computer program to determine the result of a problem or class of problems.




The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
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