People grew up on on the idea of super scientists inventing magic by themselves in a lab. You'll never be able to convince them that this isn't how the real world works.
In real life, super scientists are hamstrung by having to book instrument time and unreliable international shipping (at least that’s what I told myself in grad school). That or being bogged down in fucking grant applications and trying to manage the occasional antisocial underling
I worked with a kid at our pretty high ranked university who couldn’t grasp why the sample he was working with couldn’t have a negative mass. He just wrote it down in his notebook like a good little boy. My boss had me holding this dude’s hands and he just fucked up at every turn. No idea how he got into our program, but thankfully he mastered out and stopped being my problem
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u/Overlord_Byron 8h ago
People grew up on on the idea of super scientists inventing magic by themselves in a lab. You'll never be able to convince them that this isn't how the real world works.