ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the epistemic status and the disciplinary relevance of the eventual discovery. The local production of the physics discovery thus seems to have involved Pete as the experimentalist in the tricky task of achieving the experiment, while keeping its curious observer at bay. The chapter describes how that tricky task was achieved. It focuses on the author's tentative reproduction of the examined physics discovery. The helium level probe is made of a superconducting wire of Niobium, vertically inserted into the cryostat helium bath. It is used as a simple resistivity measure. Accordingly, the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) equipment itself could and can be used to demonstrate the experimental adequacy of technical procedures in and as their disciplinary orientation. The present instance of video analysis, be it practice-based or not, allowed the author's perhaps to explain the experimental adequacy of the described STM procedures.