 Meanwhile, other authors concur that “the familiar distinction between observation and experiment … [is] an artefact of the disembodied, reconstructed character of retrospective accounts” (Gooding 1992, 68). The distinction “collapses” when we are faced with actual scientific practice as a process, and “Hacking’s observation versus experiment framework does not survive intact when put to the test in a range of cases of scientific experimentation” (Malik 2017, 85).  First, the uses of the distinction cannot be compared across scientific fields. And second, as Gooding (1992) suggests, observation is a process too, not simply a static result of manipulation. Thus, both observation and experiment are seen as concurrent processes blended together in scientific practice.