Love the "hard drive" question. If you have a never-used hard drive it ought to have less mass than a heavily used one full of ordered zeroes and ones....right? But wait: is an unused hard drive filled with zeroes? If so, isn't a long, long string of zeroes information too? Just as a "null" hypothesis is just as informative as a confirmed finding ... sometimes actually more informative.
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Love the "hard drive" question. If you have a never-used hard drive it ought to have less mass than a heavily used one full of ordered zeroes and ones....right? But wait: is an unused hard drive filled with zeroes? If so, isn't a long, long string of zeroes information too? Just as a "null" hypothesis is just as informative as a confirmed finding ... sometimes actually more informative.