True, of course, but miniaturization is always lurking in the background of every big physics project. When I was in college, we had a Nobel laureate in physics

True, of course, but miniaturization is always lurking in the background of every big physics project. When I was in college, we had a Nobel laureate in physics that won the race to photograph an atom by figuring out how to do it on a tabletop. While everyone else was figuring out how to build bigger and bigger systems, he worked out how to trap a single (I think) cadmium ion with magnets and make it glow.