More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team Sport (WSJ)

Large Hadron Collider 

View of collective intelligence and collaboration advancing scientific progress. Forwarded by economist and colleague Ruth Fisher of QuantAA.

Collective intelligence works for the really small stuff too.

BTW, why do they use words like “massive” and “large” to study something infinitesimally small like quarks and hadrons? Hmmm.

InTrade, The Prediction Market, contracts on observation of the Higgs Boson Particle.

More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team Sport (WSJ)

Massive Collider, a Global Collaboration, Has a Bumpy Start; but Sometimes the Work of Crowds Yields Wisdom

Excerpt

“Around the world, scientists are cutting across boundaries of place, organization and technical specialty to conduct ever more ambitious experiments. Inspired by such cooperative enterprises as Linux and Wikipedia, they are encouraging creative collaborations through networks of blogs, wikis, shared databases and crowd-sourcing.”

- By ROBERT LEE HOTZ