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So, in essence, most scientists today are busy writing papers or pushing bits around in computer simulations rather than doing real experiments?

• marcosdumay 13y ago
  Well, that's true. Experiments are usually so expensive that you want to get the most out of them, so most people work discovering what experiments they should do, and what they do with the results, instead of just jumping in the lab and doing the experiments. Then, sometimes, people with that culture face a problem just like this one, where blind experiments are the fastest, simplest, cheapest route to understanding something. Except that nobody knows it beforehand.