Democracy at LIGO

[Young Master Smeet]

I recently read Brian Clegg's account of how the LIGO succesfully observed a gravitational wave in confirmation of Einstein's theories.

The book give's an account of how the LIGO team cast a vote on how to announce their discovery

(According to this article even where to publish it was decided democratically)

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/24/how-ligo-and-physical-review-letters-worked-together-publish-paper-lifetime

Also

https://www.nature.com/news/has-giant-ligo-experiment-seen-gravitational-waves-1.18449

See, proletarians working  in science are alreayd organising democratically (even to decide how to describe what they have achieved, I believe, from memory, they had to decide whether they had directly observed a gravitational wave).

I thought I'd mention this to keep Lbird happy.

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