Thinking out loud about how to address this issue:
It doesn’t have to be the same 3 months for everyone. You could stagger this over the course of 2 years, with an 8th of the relevant researchers taking a sabbatical to give this challenge a shot, at any given time.
This also means that they can build on each other’s work, in serial, if they’re in fact making progress, and can see how others have failed to make progress, if they’re not.
Thinking out loud about how to address this issue:
It doesn’t have to be the same 3 months for everyone. You could stagger this over the course of 2 years, with an 8th of the relevant researchers taking a sabbatical to give this challenge a shot, at any given time.
This also means that they can build on each other’s work, in serial, if they’re in fact making progress, and can see how others have failed to make progress, if they’re not.