Re: [Phys-L] billion dollar gamble

[David Craig <dac@panix.com>]

> On May 23, 2019, at 9:00 AM, phys-l-request@mail.phys-l.org wrote:
> From: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
>
> People are generally aware that science requires mathematical smarts, but often they don't realize that it also requires tremendous toughness of character.

All true, particularly for this almost unimaginably ambitious and difficult project.

> Personal note:  Kip Thorne tried to recruit me to work on the gravity wave project, but I declined, precisely for this reason. I figured (correctly) that it would require 40 or 50 years of hard work and I did not have enough toughness for that.  I’ve worked on some hard projects, hard enough to make sane people flee in terror, but I'm not in the same league as the gravity wave folks.

Curiosity: when did Kip ask you, and what exactly was he interested in having you work on?