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And may those scientists who devote their life to stuff like this, but who will never find a solution, be (y)our heroes as well! It's a game of big numbers, mu
by hollander 10y ago
And may those scientists who devote their life to stuff like this, but who will never find a solution, be (y)our heroes as well!
It's a game of big numbers, much (very smart) trial and error I suppose, and never finding something meaningful may result in much frustration. Still this has to be done because you simply don't know which path will lead to the solution.
- jaimehrubiks 10y agoYou are so right
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThey're too are my heroes. Those who never find a solution still did the work, traversed the other paths - which is a necessary part of figuring out which path is the correct one - and quite often, what they saw on those paths may lead someone else to solve some other problem in the future!
- zouhair 10y agoThis is why big time negative results that lead to closing a big path that may have wasted humanity huge research time should also get rewards and grants. Now if you only do negative research you cannot publish and you if you don;t publish you die.
- collyw 10y agoAgreed. I wonder how many negative results get repeated because they don't get published. It could save a lot of effort and money publishing negative results.