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<blockquote data-quote="freyar" data-source="post: 6228273" data-attributes="member: 40227"><p>Disclaimer: I'm a physicist working on dark matter research. Basically, when not teaching or doing "administrative service," I spend a bit more than half my time thinking about dark matter. </p><p></p><p>That said, I also don't believe items of significant cultural or historical importance should be destroyed or really even owned privately. </p><p></p><p>The real issue here is that I can't see that the quantities of lead bars talked about here are a <strong>significant</strong> part of cultural heritage. By the accounts I've read, there are many many of these ingots around, so I don't really see the problem with destroying some as long as (a) a large quantity remain, (b) the ones destroyed are recorded and imaged to provide as much knowledge as possible for archaeological research, and (c) everything is done legally on the up-and-up. (I imagine the CDMS collaboration has regret that they didn't check their source carefully enough and will put safeguards into place for the future.) </p><p></p><p>I guess I'd put it this way: despite the fact that we may be able to gain more knowledge about Roman history, trade, and culture by cataloging this type of ingot, I would argue that the Roman Colosseum is a much more significant part of cultural heritage and more worthy of preservation than an individual ingot. And I see the scientific experiments, like CDMS, as much more like the Colosseum or other major ruins in terms of the cultural heritage we are leaving for the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freyar, post: 6228273, member: 40227"] Disclaimer: I'm a physicist working on dark matter research. Basically, when not teaching or doing "administrative service," I spend a bit more than half my time thinking about dark matter. That said, I also don't believe items of significant cultural or historical importance should be destroyed or really even owned privately. The real issue here is that I can't see that the quantities of lead bars talked about here are a [B]significant[/B] part of cultural heritage. By the accounts I've read, there are many many of these ingots around, so I don't really see the problem with destroying some as long as (a) a large quantity remain, (b) the ones destroyed are recorded and imaged to provide as much knowledge as possible for archaeological research, and (c) everything is done legally on the up-and-up. (I imagine the CDMS collaboration has regret that they didn't check their source carefully enough and will put safeguards into place for the future.) I guess I'd put it this way: despite the fact that we may be able to gain more knowledge about Roman history, trade, and culture by cataloging this type of ingot, I would argue that the Roman Colosseum is a much more significant part of cultural heritage and more worthy of preservation than an individual ingot. And I see the scientific experiments, like CDMS, as much more like the Colosseum or other major ruins in terms of the cultural heritage we are leaving for the future. [/QUOTE]
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