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The "Phylogeny" of Scientific Life.
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Stopping atoms A "coil-gun" method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas

They certainly didn't need to hire people with advanced math degrees and pay them seven- or eight-figure salaries to get these kinds of results.

Oh yes they did. Nobody has been convicted and sentenced to hard time. At least $25 trillion disappeared planetwide. The Fed dumped $2.5 trillion into the US banking system all by itself plus another $1.6 trillion "stimulus" from Washington without oversight or accountability. That cannot be accomplished without differential equations. Imagine a wonk being deposed,

Hot shot Federal lawyer, "Dr. Cervelat, can you explain where the money went?"

Dr. Cervelat, "Of course." There follow 23 days of dialog and three square meters of abstruse mathematical modeling.

How can that be prosecuted? It's like saying "string theory is a crock of crap." Of course it is - but prove it to a jury.