{"id":13975,"date":"2013-08-08T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2013-08-08T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T08:00:28","slug":"playing-small-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13975","title":{"rendered":"Playing Small Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2013\/08\/07\/why-do-small-science\/\">Why Do Small Science?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chad breaks down the advantages and disadvantages of the user facility model, and why AMO physics is better off without it. I think he hit the high points, like the &#8220;economy of scale&#8221; advantage of having staff technicians to handle the equipment that isn&#8217;t part of your particular experiment, and disadvantages like<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]f your small experiment that plans to use the particle beam from some accelerator or reactor breaks just before your scheduled beam time, well, try again in six months or a year, assuming they give you another block of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a constant fear when I was at TRIUMF, and something <em>always<\/em> broke just before we had beam time, requiring long hours to fix right before we went into &#8220;experiment running 24\/7&#8221; mode, and had to surrender time on at least one occasion. We also tried to be ready to grab someone else&#8217;s beam time in case of problems, when the right target was in the beamline, and I have a vague recollection of doing that, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Do Small Science? Chad breaks down the advantages and disadvantages of the user facility model, and why AMO physics is better off without it. I think he hit the high points, like the &#8220;economy of scale&#8221; advantage of having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13975\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}