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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (497634)8/27/2022 12:31:42 PM
From: cosmicforce   of 542435
 
>>not restrained by those struggling to keep up.

There are both theoretical and experimental physicists. They are not interchangeable and both are skilled in different ways.

The problem with the phrase I reference above is that becomes institutionalized and then bureaucrats or test results become proxies for ability when we both know that academics is only one fraction of the whole pie of "highly skilled". Many experimentalists are not great at the theory.

If you have ever seen glassblowers work - they are geniuses and ingenious. The fact that Roentgen did not have access to one slowed his work. Tesla sent him an X-ray tube that he had built ten years earlier but wasn't using. Roentgen did not take credit for or claim the patent which he gave away for free.
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