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[foda]

It illustrates that it's the ambient light and the exposure that are doing the difference, no surprise...
But: "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal, the rest is poetry, imagination." I would say that the experiments start with "poetry, imagination.", usually called hypothesis.
And only the results from the experiments are the thing that will kill or uplift your hypothesis! In this particular case the hypothesis didn't survive the experiment. For the "experimental scientist" it means (most of the time but not always) your chances to get money for your next experiment are diminishing...

Actually (and this is almost always missed), analysis of observational data precedes the generation of a hypothesis. The hypothesis then generates a testable prediction which can be verified or falsified by further experiment.

 

[foda]

Please forgive a fellow experimental scientist for using your image to test those theories - after all as Max Planck wrote: "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal, the rest is poetry, imagination." (especially what's on Facebook).

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Well done. What is your field of study?

 

[foda]

Indochinese Green-Magpie photographed while birding in Vietnam, March, 2026.

R5MkII RF200-800mm

 

[neuroanatomist]

"Chipping Sparrow"

EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 4000

"American Redstart"

EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 1000

 

[AlanF]

Well done. What is your field of study?

Protein science (at the interface of molecular biology, chemistry, biophysics and structural biology).