John Carlos Baez on Nostr: - his thinking that experimentalists are less frustrated than theorists seems like a ...
- his thinking that experimentalists are less frustrated than theorists seems like a case of "the grass is greener on the other side". There's a lot more friction in experimental work. So many things break when you're trying to do experiments, or don't work quite as well as you hoped, or cost too much for you to afford.
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