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yen223
on July 25, 2012
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On Leaving Academia
Could the smaller projects have the expertise and resources to discover something like the Higgs-Boson?
Centralization of resources is not necessarily a bad thing.
SoftwareMaven
on July 25, 2012
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The more important question is could multiple smaller labs have come up with something more valuable (to science or society) than weighing the Higgs Boson (the discovery was expected, the weight was an unknown)?
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Centralization of resources is not necessarily a bad thing.