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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by robonerd on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:29PM (#31220886)
Presumably "more of that." Would cosmologists really turn away even more funding? I can't imagine so.
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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by SiempreViernes on Sunday May 01, 2022 @04:42PM (#31228482)
It's not like there are a lot of idling cosmologist for lack of instruments right now, you'd really need to expand the set of tenured positions within the field if you'd want anyone to actually use a second Vera Rubin.

So "more of that" isn't a very useful position, science output isn't a linear, or even monotonous function of dollars spent.

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