My experiment was built in a small accelerator lab, plus about $400k in 1990 dollars. Technology was evolving rapidly (lasers, computers), and some of the criti

My experiment was built in a small accelerator lab, plus about $400k in 1990 dollars. Technology was evolving rapidly (lasers, computers), and some of the critical gear was obsolete by the time I finished. Had I needed to secure guaranteed funding for replication, I would not have started the experiment. How it was eventually replicated could not have been known at that point. The thing that comes to mind in this thread is that rules (and rule makers) for small biological and behavioral studies might not make sense for a physics research program, and vice versa.