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MoreLater  . This book bends phenomena to fit the author's analogy framework. Yes, well organized groups can accomplish more. They can also be riots, lynch mobs, panics, invasions, or thousand-year cultural stasis. The book reinterprets some phenomena to fit the author's analogy framework.
 
 .p2 '''loonshots''', widely dismissed ideas whose champions are often written off as crazy.
  . Large groups of people needed to implement them.
  . "science of '''phase transitions'''
 .p11 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_W._Anderson | Phil Anderson ]] [[ https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_different_PWA.pdf | more is different, ]] broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science. Used as an analogy for human teams. Referred to on page 226.
 .p187 1844 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_(Mormon) | John Taylor ]] in Carthage Illinois [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_Jail | jail cell ]] with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith | Joseph Smith ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrum_Smith | Hyrum Smith]]
 .p226 phase transitions, collective behaviors. The author analogizes without details.
  . a detailed "for example" used by the author: superconductors are the macroscopic behavior of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair | Cooper-paired electons ]], joined by lattice distortions and opposed spin to behave like a "boson" rather than a lone-electron fermion. As pseudo-bosons, hoards of Cooper pairs "march in large formations", ignoring the pesky lattice defects and vibrations that dissipate energy and cause electrical resistance.
 .243 James Bond [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual | metrosexual ]]
 .252 veiled reference to cancer [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotherapy | immunotherapy ]]

Loonshots

How to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries

Safi Bahcall 2019 | West Slope Library 658.4094 BAHCALL

  • This book bends phenomena to fit the author's analogy framework. Yes, well organized groups can accomplish more. They can also be riots, lynch mobs, panics, invasions, or thousand-year cultural stasis. The book reinterprets some phenomena to fit the author's analogy framework.

  • p2 loonshots, widely dismissed ideas whose champions are often written off as crazy.

    • Large groups of people needed to implement them.

    • "science of phase transitions

  • p11 Phil Anderson more is different, broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science. Used as an analogy for human teams. Referred to on page 226.

  • p187 1844 John Taylor in Carthage Illinois jail cell with Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith

  • p226 phase transitions, collective behaviors. The author analogizes without details.

    • a detailed "for example" used by the author: superconductors are the macroscopic behavior of Cooper-paired electons, joined by lattice distortions and opposed spin to behave like a "boson" rather than a lone-electron fermion. As pseudo-bosons, hoards of Cooper pairs "march in large formations", ignoring the pesky lattice defects and vibrations that dissipate energy and cause electrical resistance.

  • 243 James Bond metrosexual

  • 252 veiled reference to cancer immunotherapy

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