unlike Chemists who can't bundle up their lab into a little transportable box, Computer Scientists can This is often a good thing for scientific progress in ch

unlike Chemists who can't bundle up their lab into a little transportable box, Computer Scientists can This is often a good thing for scientific progress in chemistry, though. Independent reproduction in independent labs gives a lot more confidence in results than shipping the exact same lab around would. A lot of interesting results come up due to issues in replication, which you wouldn't find if you just literally reran the identical experiment on the identical equipment. That said, being able to look at and experiment with someone's original apparatus is better than nothing.