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>It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other
by max_ 5y ago
>It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, at the end, the decision is made as to which idea was the best---summing it all up---without having to say it three times.
Can we attribute this to the fact that in physics, everything can be validated mathematically? Hence less room for debate.
- zb 5y agoNo, because he’s clearly describing an engineering problem, not a physics problem.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoRight, so it can be validated experimentally, but this team had a real goal and a real deadline. To succeed they needed to get things as right as possible as quickly as possible. They needed to be efficient.