1.   Chemistry was parexcellence the laboratory science of the earlier nineteenth century, but experimental physics and physiology needed similar facilities.

2.   Fukushima describes the relationship between modeling neural networks and neurophysiology as one resembling that between theoretical physics and experimental physics.

3.   The link is also needed by the ground-based research teams working with the experimental physics observatory aboard Discovery called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

4.   The work was seen as a tour de force of experimental physics, but of no practical use.