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They use physics grad students to build the wiring assemblies for the detectors?! And they work?
by gehsty 8y ago
They use physics grad students to build the wiring assemblies for the detectors?! And they work?
- smueller1234 8y agoAlways have always will!
- gehsty 8y agoJust seems like something that professionals would do! You wouldn’t let an aerospace engineer wire up a flight controller, but I guess grad students are cheap :)
- neel_k 8y agoGrad students are actually more expensive, because they're slower and more likely to mess up than a pro would. However, you still want the grad students to do it. A successful experimental physicist needs to have a deep feeling for how their experimental apparatuses work, including all the grungy real-world details that theoretical models don't cover. You get that feeling by building and using the tools, and since the point of being a grad student is to learn how to be a successful experimental physicist, they've got to be the ones who build the tools!