Look, the experimentalists have the entire rest of the CERN campus to hang out in; the Theory Department is correct to defend its nice second-floor lounge against interlopers
So if I shout “I have a theory!” outside that open door, does that mean that, in theory, I could come in and sit with the cool kids?
If you let one experimentalist in, they'll let the rest in, and before you know it, the room is a lab.
"I theorize I'll have another cup of coffee."
experimentalist: what happens if I smash into the room really fast theorists: oh, we have some ideas
gonna try to sneak an electroscope in there and detect a few charged particles on the sly
A respite from the hoi-polloi. 😂
As someone whose physics career stalled because I just wanted to be at the whiteboard, not in a lab, I feel this. And good for them!As someone whose physics career stalled because I just wanted to be at the whiteboard, not in a lab, I feel this. And good for them!
No grease monkeys, thank you very much. 😆
Reserving rooms is only a theory though. /s 🙃