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Though I agree for the most part, isn't CERN using multiple teams on multiple detectors, even going so far as having multiple implementations of data analyses a
by tinco 10y ago
Though I agree for the most part, isn't CERN using multiple teams on multiple detectors, even going so far as having multiple implementations of data analyses and such, just to make sure any result they find is never a product of one person or team making a mistake in their process?
- dekhn 10y agoCERN has multiple detectors (CMS and ATLAS are the two best-known) but they serve different purposes and are attached to the same system (LHC). Exacycle also did something similar (we ran multiple different protein folding codes on the same infrastructure). You're addressing another issue: they built replicability into their scientific method (which is awesome) but it's still within a single logical entity (which happens to be distributed throughout the world). LIGO went one better and injected fake events to make sure their analysis systems were working.