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Here's the downside of being an experimental particle physicist, while our theorist colleagues famously just need paper, pencil and a trash can (and perhaps not
by lokimedes 2y ago
Here's the downside of being an experimental particle physicist, while our theorist colleagues famously just need paper, pencil and a trash can (and perhaps not even the latter), it is hard to be a gentleman experimentalist without very involved lab equipment.
- throwawaymaths 2y agoswitch to a cheaper discipline until the price of technology for high energy comes down (will HEP be cheaper with space manufacturing)? lots of unsolved problems in "breakfast table" physics, granular pile cone angles, honey hyperbola dynamics, etc.
- Ar-Curunir 2y agoThe price will not come down in a vacuum, you need people working on the tech to improve it
- throwawaymaths 2y agoor people working on adjacent tech. high energy physics greatly benefitted because chemistry and medicine wanted superconductors for nmr and mri technology (in production 1980, ssc proposed 1984)