Stephen sez: > I like this quote from the article. It's /almost/ a blanket condemnation > of "super-big-ticket" science as a way to make reasonable progress > toward any goal which involves more than the most well-understood > engineering solutions: > >> While larger reactors typically plan all their tests up to two years >> in advance, she says, “with this smaller machine, we have the ability >> to try new things when they appear. This ability to explore has been a >> key.” > > In other words, in the world of "big science", you can't discover > anything you didn't already know was there, waiting to be found. > Otherwise you wouldn't have decided, two years earlier, to go looking > for it!
Oh dear! How embarrasing! Another damned wikileak! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
