[SpaceBar]

Color me jaded, but it seems the days of Boltzmann and Gibbs, when men solved these problems through sheer power of intellect are gone. Nowadays it's just smaller, thinner, lighter, purer, better machined, more highly polished, more collimated, better resolved, higher power, and more generously funded.

[fso301]

Color me jaded, but it seems the days of Boltzmann and Gibbs, when men solved these problems through sheer power of intellect are gone. Nowadays it's just smaller, thinner, lighter, purer, better machined, more highly polished, more collimated, better resolved, higher power, and more generously funded.

The fundamental breakthroughs come from intellect and a bit of luck. Who knows when some everyday event will trigger a thought in a scientists mind that takes him/her down a revolutionary scientific path.

[quantim]

Heard that, could you imagine Newton with a staff of programmers and a row of mainframes?

[Erasmus]

Well heck, pilgrim.

You got yer theoretical physics, and then you got yer experimental physics. Seems t’ me it takes both kinds.