On hypotheses 1: The joy of a pet hypothesis

The joy of a pet hypothesis

POV

You’re a scientist

Life is complicated

Experiments go wrong

Analyses and paper reading

Yield no clear interpretation

It’s a bad time


All of a sudden

A good hypothesis pops up

It matches what went wrong in the experiments

It lines up with the analyses and papers

But there isn’t a deadringer experiment


It is such a joy

To have a hypothesis

It is so joyous

All the uncertainties

And the other projects

Seems to pale before it

The ego is happy

The world is happy


One shouldn’t be too absorbed by it though

For it could be quite wrong

Or it could lead to

A lot of time wasted

Chasing a strong feeling


One should have other means of feeling good

While keeping the hypothesis around

For if it is true

It will be a great blessing


(Part 2: They horrors of a pet hypothesis: the hypothesis hydra)