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Very interesting Peter and I thank you for taking the time to present such a well considered post.
I doubt if there is much we can do to get past the politics etc other than maybe some fund that gives out without expectation of a return.
That has been done in the past but I ca not remember who or what they came up with but stuff came from folk just being able to explore things with no pressure to make a buck.
But even if we had such a fund do you think it would work the way would like, maybe maybe not, so I just dont know.
I complained to a crank that it is one thing to bag GR but he needed a model or at least direction before he sort to throw out the current model.
And heck in this day and age what do you do. The rent has to be paid and those holding the money need to have some idea that mo ey invested comes back somehow with a profit.
And although profit sounds like a dirty word it is probably better to think of it as a term that is an easy way to measure benefit for time, effort and materials used.
Its not art where all you expect is something that has only the object of letting us stand back and say... er yeh thats cool it reminds me of that time I lost my socks in the car park... I dont get art so I find the benefit to effort ratio unsatisfactory.
But science who really is happy with Edisons throw away line that he had worked out 1000 things that dont work.
And I doubt if he would have been happy with one single failure because he was firstly a business man so he would have been very aware of money in money out rules.
But I dont know, what would you change or would you resist change such that science should be like it was in the old days.
We may be the only folk concerned, so we better come up with some workable ideas.
Alex
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