The NSTMF’s mission is to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals and the public through the incredible stories of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates. Please explore the Lab, and each of the experiences online at. Combine that with our already content-rich website, and now, we have created a home on the web for every Laureate, where their accomplishments and lives can be explored and celebrated,” said Andy Rathmann-Noonan, Executive Director of the NSTMF. “The Lab represents an experiential destination for visitors. The NSTMF is proud to announce this new initiative to build awareness and respect for our National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates, and to increase enthusiasm for STEM excellence throughout the country. “The Lab invites visitors to create their own experiences around the world, benefiting from the laureates’ incredible work”. “Imagine learning about gravity or sound waves by creating your own universe or sound installation, and understanding first-hand the world-changing accomplishments of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates,” said Jake Barton, Founder of Local Projects. The Lab was created in partnership with Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm, with a passion for testing the limits of human interaction across a range of platforms that inspire people to participate, share and explore. The work of our nation’s brightest STEM stars should be celebrated in an effort to inspire the next generation, and the NSTMF believes that through the Lab, visitors will discover the impact of the Laureates’ many accomplishments. The experiences explore the principles of Gravity, Sound, and Image Processing through unique and beautiful interfaces. It is exceedingly unlikely you will create a system that remains stable like the simulators of our meticulously initiated and calculated systems from Wolfram or JPL.The National Science and Technology Medals Foundation (NSTMF) has launched The Lab, a new interactive section of their website with three fun and engaging experiences that highlight the work of America’s best and brightest scientists and technologists. ![]() It is very unlikely you will be able to simulate the solar system for even a brief moment. NSTMF has this wonderful gravitational system simulator: You the reader should now do some homework! Let’s all build a solar system from the ground up and see if we can mimic the behavior of our own solar system for even a short timespan. ![]() One exercise that will make this much more clear for all of us. ![]() This is a very hard point to get our heads around. It’s allowing us to course correct for more and more instrumentation in the adjacent possible of the near past and near future. The “models” are no longer just models of planets and solar system gravity… but a much larger collection of far more bodies in the universe, other effects like magnetic fields, solar winds and all the models of course correcting instruments plus the machine learning and data science methods of the data crunching.Īgain, if it’s not obvious that complexity doesn’t come for free (this instrumentation is extremely hard and expensive to keep running and computing) and it isn’t really increasing our ability to reach further into the future with more accuracy. In fact, the complexity of models is almost wholly accounted for by the complexity of the instrumentation and relayed data. Our models are growing in COMPLEXITY from a constant stream of CORRECTIVE DATA not from improvements in the mathematical or computational orbital mechanical models. Understanding of orbital mechanics and planetary dynamics of the solar system improve because we have far more course correcting measurement instruments relaying information back. If it’s not obvious what we often mis-categorize as “good prediction” let’s make the point directly: our predictions aren’t getting better, our observations are.
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