The Brewster's Angle story from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is very inspiring.
http://www.feep.org/articles/feynman.html

It was so much inspiring that I realized Feynman did not ask a deeper question to these students:

How do we know the electric field is perpendicular to the incidence plane when the Brewster's condition is matched ?

After all, the question by Feynman illustrated how students sometimes make use of their knowledge.
The question he did not ask is more about how does science really work.
It might illustrate the naïve and superficial understanding of most posters on this forum.

Therefore, it would be illustrative and instructive to read the answers from those miserabilis posters here.

Re: Cement Head, The question Mr Feynman did not ask ... September 27 2009 at 3:50 PM

Cement Head: "It was so much inspiring that I realized Feynman did not ask a deeper question to these students:

How do we know the electric field is perpendicular to the incidence plane when the Brewster's condition is matched ?"

You are assuming facts not in evidence; how do we know that "we" knows...Cement Head?

That's exactly the answer I expected from you.

Re: Anonymous, The question Mr Feynman did not ask ...

From September 28, 2009 @, 10:40 AM

Cement Head: "It was so much inspiring that I realized Feynman did not ask a deeper question to these students:

How do we know the electric field is perpendicular to the incidence plane when the Brewster's condition is matched ?"

bob s: "You are assuming facts not in evidence; how do we know that "we" knows...Cement Head?"


From September 28, 2009 @ 5:09 PM

Anonym: "That's exactly the answer I expected from you."

There is a bit of irony for you Anonym, that is exactly the response I expected from you...Cement Head!