>>> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,0

>>> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,000? That was my thesis. To make it worse, the laser I used became unavailable as I was finishing up. My work was adopted by 2 labs but required extensive adaptation.