We’ve all heard the stories of the FTL neutrinos that travelled from CERN in times of late. It had the scientists involved quite frustrated for some time. Today, I got a taste of their misery: granted, there weren’t millions of pounds invested into my project, but I personally invested a whole evening! I happen to know for a fact that an oscillating spring adheres to the laws of simple harmonic motion, but my data seem to disagree with me on that point. Ultimately, you could put it down to ‘bad data’, but we’re scientists! We’re supposed to account for this sort of thing, and indeed I did. I dedicated two pages to uncertainty calculations, but despite my best efforts, I really do put my failure down to ‘bad data’, a concept in which I used not to believe. Read my full report here.