== 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 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 [[ 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 ]]