PhD thesis are sometimes good places to look if you want more of the gory details.
Edit: and if you ever take a physics lab in trying to measure the heat capacity of water or speed of light you learn a bunch about how science actually works.
PhD thesis are sometimes good places to look if you want more of the gory details.
Edit: and if you ever take a physics lab in trying to measure the heat capacity of water or speed of light you learn a bunch about how science actually works.
Having personally gone through a couple years of lab classes; no, not really. Lord knows your professors may try but at least in my experience the profundity is lost on students. You get a lovely tour of scientific concensus, but most people see the experiments as being fore-ordained or like a recipe.
To put it more simply university lab classes demonstrate so many things that are true that people sometimes never realize that science is a method for disproving things.
the fact that the earth revolves around the sun is commonly accepted today.. but it took thousands of years of debate to arrive at that discovery.
I can bet that the average high schooler or college student in science will have a difficult time designing experiments to prove the above fact (and for this reason it took so long - as it is completely non-intuitive).