In the ideal world of the massless pulley and frictionless plane, that's what would happen. The reality is, the professoriate we have now is better at playing t

In the ideal world of the massless pulley and frictionless plane, that's what would happen. The reality is, the professoriate we have now is better at playing the game. Smartest people I know are in industry. While tenure was supposed to encourage risk taking, the way it's given out these days it seems to have the opposite effect.