One of the many, many aspects of this clusterfuck that I want to point out is that doing science is not like riding a bike. You can’t park your science in the garage for a couple of years and then come back and expect it to work out. Science is, on the practical level, a lot of very sensitive instruments that age fairly quickly and require a lot of maintenance. But it’s mainly a web of people, each having their own specific set of skills, all collaborating towards a given goal. No one knows really everything about a collaborative project. Stopping funding means waving a hand through a fine web of connections that are impossible to quickly set up again. It takes some 3-5 years to set up a good working group on any given project.
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...and considerably longer to develop certain aspects of a field. I've seen Professors whose work came to fruition 20, 30 years later. It wasn't the person themselves, but the team they assembled around them ( which also takes lots of time).