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Not to assume, but if it's possible for the project to fail, you need to define it differently. Unless you mean it ran out of funding, or a collaborator left or
by neltnerb 12y ago
Not to assume, but if it's possible for the project to fail, you need to define it differently. Unless you mean it ran out of funding, or a collaborator left or something. "I will use these techniques to test <foo> to see what the impact is on <bar>." I suppose you might find it impossible to do the measurement? Although I guess that's analogous to running out of funding.
- analog31 12y agoThat's fair. My project was a case where I had to build apparatus A to produce B in order to measure C. After spending a fair amount of time getting A working, I was able to observe B, barely above the noise, but could not sustain it at a level needed to even consider trying to measure C. It was an ambitious experiment, i.e., it would have earned me genuine recognition within my specialty. I admit a high likelihood that the project was over my head. Oddly enough a fellow student dreamed up a project for me that used much of my existing equipment and my equipment hacking skills. It produced one minor publication, but opened up a new experimental technique.