Re: [AGA-mcm] Potential AGAF staff

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

I could also see it possibly including listings of 
possible projects for all levels including grade
school students and teacher type projects. 

Some could be guided by forum members upon request
others may be following preset formulas to emphasize a
scientic point like basic photosynthesis or nutrient
uptake for classroom demonstrations. Others may be
more freeform with just a simple control to help prove
or disprove a theory like Paul was talking about
regarding time from cut to ship on stem plants.

It does not have to be peer reviewed AGA approved
science at all. Just a place for plant folks to tinker
and get assistance when needed.

Other's could be much more advanced. Lot's of places
we could play in. Either way I like the idea.

Regards,
Larry Lampert

--- Paul Krombholz <pkrombholz@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> >What do you envisage to be AGA's role re
> expermentats?
> >
> >sh
> >
> 
> 
> Hardly anything.  No research committee; no funding.
>  If AGA goes 
> ahead with the forum, AGA would just support a forum
> on 
> experimentation and, if we can get anybody to do
> some simple 
> experiments, we can get some TAG articles out of
> them.
> 
> (There is a language problem:  A forum like APC has
> forums on various 
> subjects and even sub-forums within a forum.)
> 
> 
> The emphasis should be on simple experiments.  I
> think that many 
> would-be experimenters feel that the experiment has
> to be 
> mind-numbingly complex with double blind
> experimentors and advanced 
> statistics.  Everybody should know about one of the
> great experiments 
> of all time on plants by Von Helmont.  For 800 years
> everybody 
> believed that Aristotle was correct in saying that
> plants got all 
> their substance from the soil.  Von Helmont decided
> to test that 
> claim.  He got a tub of soil, weighed the soil,
> rooted a small willow 
> branch, planted it in the tub, grew it for five
> years, then weighed 
> the willow tree and all its shed leaves and weighed
> the soil again. 
> The tree gained something like 100 lbs (I don't
> remember exactly how 
> much), whereas the soil only lost about a pound.  So
> much for 
> Aristotle's claim!  Nice and simple, and you can't
> argue with the 
> results.
> -- 
> Paul Krombholz in humid central Mississippi, where I
> heard some 
> thunder rumbling to the North, but nothing here.
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