Loonshots

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 physical 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