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My latest conversation with my adviser for the summer was on the topic of graduate school and promising areas of research.  I began to arrive at the conclusion that I should move in the direction of either theoretical particle physics or experimental particle astrophysics, with the latter likely promising the most fundamental discoveries in the near future.  At any rate, I was amused when he digressed into pontification and remarked, "Physics is not like biology.  In biology everything takes an extraordinary amount of time to test in a laboratory.  Theoretical physics doesn't take much time at all.  It just requires quality time."  So theorists are just lazy?  Or more to his point, they ought to be lazy from time to time.