CAMBRIDGE — A flexible blue tube snakes through labyrinthine hallways at Harvard University, traveling alongside rows of pipes before it ducks into a basement room filled with the bleating mechanical chirp of a laboratory refrigerator. Here, the tube feeds laser light to a table-top experiment that could help illuminate questions as profound as why the universe as we know it exists.
In an age where the best-known physics experiments involve big teams and bigger money, this setup is more home-grown apparatus than industrial-scale science. The plastic tube protects cables that channel laser light from an adjacent building and was strung by graduate students.
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"God decides and we measure". Right on, Prof. Gabrielsi. This E.E., old enough to remember Nikola Tesla's inventions, guesses your quest will fail. Congratulations for keeping your budget in the low millions, but it's a lot to spend for sprinkiling salt on a bird's tail.
This article offers a good example of the continued relevance of basic scientific research. I wish the Harvard-Yale team good luck!