But I don't fancy writing about the project in detail in a blog here. Instead, I'll write about the project in an indirect manner.
Let's say, an aspect of science is a pursuit of novelty, a quest to the unknown, and discovery of something new. Most of the time, we achieve novelty by distinguishing the known and unknown first then asking a specific scientific question.
Much efforts go into elaborating or revising the question, so that we are asking a "right" question that can be solved through current scientific methods, and that can provide something useful.
[This is a point natural science is different from humanities and social science. In humanities and social science, the basic unit is human, which can be affected by culture, bias, education, position, and millions of other things. A truth in a mind can be utterly a false in another mind. In my opinion, for humanities researchers, their basis of the work is so changeable, it is like a quicksand. My condolences to humanities researchers. ...I digress.]
There are many other aspects in science. Natural science too is a human activity, and there are current, "status quo" ways to do science.
But "status quo" is not always the best way. In fact, the way we do it now is a temporal state in history. Science is not as streamlined as you may think. There are many gaps in a research field that have not been patched up. In most cases, we ignore the gaps as white elephants in the room.
But sometimes, with a progress in science and a tool that was not available but is now, we may be able to tackle the white elephant.
That is how I am seeing this project. By filling the gap and changing infrastructure, we should be able to enjoy more outcome from scientific research.
There is an academic approach of studying and discussing a problem, and there is an entrepreneurial approach of providing a solution to a problem. In this case, I'm thinking of the latter.
