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Having less money might have increased progress. I tend to agree with my old boss, David Montgomery, that the eagerness to build big machines distracted the com
by leephillips 5y ago
Having less money might have increased progress. I tend to agree with my old boss, David Montgomery, that the eagerness to build big machines distracted the community from investigating the basic plasma physics and hydrodynamics that we needed to understand first.
- willis936 5y agoIt's not an eagerness to build big machines because they are fun, but out of necessity to push the experimental regime forward. Given constrained budgets theory has continued to thrive. Cutting edge turbulence models are being made by theoretical plasma physicists. This is a problem no other engineer wants to touch with a 10 foot pole yet has incredibly far-reaching implications for many engineering fields.