Word: experimental
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And yet, noble as the experiment might have seemed on paper, in practice UHS wallows ineffectively in the quagmire of its own bureaucracy. Most people at UHS are empowered to act only within the confines of extremely rigid rules and regulations. These rules are not designed to bend in the...
The recently released book, "Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment," by Gary Taubes '77 depicts the competitive nature of the field of research physics.
The book focuses on an experiment Rubbia conducted in 1984 in which he expected to uncover a sixth particle, which would fulfill a prediction he had made earlier and, the book says, insure his winning a Nobel. However, after Rubbia won the Nobel, the sixth particle turned out to be...
But Glashow still stands by his originalcomments in Time, which he said misrepresented hisquote as an attack on Rubbia. Glashow said thatthe book is an accurate portrayal of Rubbia'sfailed experiment and the world of "Big Physics."
The point is that it is not time for the clubs to die, but rather to evolve. the final clubs were a bold experiment, a revolutionary country club-like method of dealing with individual differences, but they still are only one step on the path to social nirvana. My method...