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Why did a US$3-million-winning result leave one physicist feeling like Peanut’s character Charlie Brown, scuppered from kicking the football at the last second by his friend Lucy?

FQxI News: Muon g-2 Experiments Win US$3-million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics The Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of science, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

Funding agencies, AI, and even scientists themselves favor tried-and-tested research avenues over exploring new ideas, to the detriment of progress.

Full piece by George Musser → https://qspace.fqxi.org/articles/284/risky-business-how-science-plays-things-too-safe

Featuring: Carl Bergstrom, C. Brandon Ogbunu and Dashun Wang

Happy World Quantum Day! April 14th — for the date in Planck's constant, h ≈ 4.14 × 10⁻¹⁵ eV·s.