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Look out for new results… If your result differs from others or looks strange, it may be wrong, but it may also be new! Check it carefully. Find out what is “wrong” before giving up! Remember: Most great discoveries are accidental! * Don’t be sad/angry if your work is wrong: You have gained much knowledge and experience that will be useful in the future. Psychology: Never think that you have wasted time! Otherwise, the gained knowledge and experience will quickly fade! * At the beginning, most of your trials may be unsuccessful. But with each unsuccessful trial, you gain more experience. After many trials, your guesses will improve. That is why many PhD research work were actually done in the final 6 months. If you merely solve a well-posed problem given by your advisor, it is only a homework exercise! * Thanks! * Some interesting physics problems * Discovery of a new material A few years ago, a professor and his students at Harvard University put a silicon chip in a gas shoot it with ultrashort laser pulses a careless student burnt the chip Instead of replacing the chip, they analyzed the burnt chip. Discovered the blackest material ever known! The new material has the best heat and light absorption properties. Besides of basic physics interest, it has very important applications in communications and sensor technology, etc. * Charged dust particles in a plasmain the International Space Station (extremely small gravity) Dust crystal structure with a void at center * Snow (H2O) flakes What causes the many ( 100) different forms of the snow-flake crystal structures? Still an unsolved problem! The form depends sensitively on the temperature, and also on how the temperature changes. * vertically vibrating dish A simple experiment OSCILLONS * Wave patterns formed by tiny balls in dish Already noticed in the 17th century! * Oscillons in colloidal fluids clay mix * Possible explanation But most probably wrong! * Freak wave * Water spike Normal toilet