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Totally plausible indeed! One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue. And from a different field,
by smueller1234 5y ago
Totally plausible indeed! One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue.
And from a different field, but closer to the quip: semiconductor lithography lenses' own weight causes stresses that cause birefringence in the optics that has to be explicitly corrected for. And that was true 20 years ago already.
(Recovering particle physicist here and thinking about this even much later gives me mild trauma. ;) )
- heavyset_go 5y ago> One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue. Have more info on this or link about it?
- perihelions 5y agoI'm guessing the parent is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
- adgjlsfhk1 5y ago"EM Drive" also probably counts.
- ben_w 5y agoFrom what I’ve been hearing, EM drive is more of “didn’t do the maths” followed by shoestring-budget “might as well try it, we have some spare lab space” work getting squished in between the serious projects.
- smueller1234 5y agoYes, thank you, that's the one I was thinking about. Apologies for not naming/linking it in the first place.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThanks