I wrote: Naturally, I see why theory is important to the researchers, but I am not a > researcher, so it isn't my department. Glassware is important to them too . > . . >
That is not a joke, by the way. An experiment with the right theory but the wrong glassware will still fail. Nature does not care whether the fault is in the design or the execution. An airplane may crash because it is poorly designed. A well-designed airplane may crash because the engines ingest geese. In experimental science the devil is in the details. - Jed
