My favorite part:
At one point, Steinkuehler met up with one of the kids who'd built the Excel model to crack the boss. "Do you realize that what you're doing is the essence of science?" she asked.
He smiled at her. "Dude, I'm not doing science," he replied. "I'm just cheating the game!"
I really like that as a description of how science works and why basic research is so important. We learn the rules, and then use them to cheat life into giving us an advantage. If you don't know the rules, you'll never figure out how to cheat them. Therefore, fund the LHC and ILC.
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