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RE: A final song for OPERA: 6 years of neutrino data, nice events and an exemplary open data policy
This is what made me think twice before choosing to study in the Aerospace at the Politechnik Institute. I presumed that everything was high tech and less tangible than it was. Only later when I reviewed some of the works there I found out that even the most advanced industries use simple methods to overcome problems. Either because of cost or because of the simple fact that it is working like this, why complicate it? :D
I work with molecular biology, computational fluid dynamics, and the occasional recombinant organism. My most useful lab tools? Silicone caulk and zip ties.
Very often, the simplest is the best. But I already told you (or actually someone else) this recently. Nature has to e somehow simple. It is only us, humans, who can't decode the simplicity as it should be.
A related thought I often have to this is thinking about how the systems I look are are massive collections of differential equations, and yet nature 'solves' them effortlessly. More poetic than accurate, I know, but I think it touches on something.
As long as we haven't found the way to exploit simplicity in the best possible way, we are bound to deal with complicated methods :)