> It is my belief that this sort of immediate feedback is needed in other technical subjects ... Perhaps different methodology, or differently structured theories
The traditional feedback method is teamwork: the next student, or colleague, makes a claim about physics, and you exclaim: "Bullshit! As the mass of the pencil reduces to zero, the whole universe gets pulled off course." Traditionally, physicists and hackers were thick-skinned freaks; the triumph you felt more than made up for your bruised ego when the tables were turned. Now, normal people do these things; their feelings, more of resentment than glory, distract them inefficiently. They react the same way when computers call their bullshit.
The traditional feedback method is teamwork: the next student, or colleague, makes a claim about physics, and you exclaim: "Bullshit! As the mass of the pencil reduces to zero, the whole universe gets pulled off course." Traditionally, physicists and hackers were thick-skinned freaks; the triumph you felt more than made up for your bruised ego when the tables were turned. Now, normal people do these things; their feelings, more of resentment than glory, distract them inefficiently. They react the same way when computers call their bullshit.