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High certainty but that comes with second order issues: many ideas are untested, and the ideas that are turn into papers with 100s of authors. This stifles inde
by mathattack 9y ago
High certainty but that comes with second order issues: many ideas are untested, and the ideas that are turn into papers with 100s of authors. This stifles independent thinking.
- whatshisface 9y agoHere's a modern experimental paper. Scroll down to the authors. You'll know it when you see it. https://cds.cern.ch/record/2282544/files/arXiv:1709.05260.pdf https://cds.cern.ch/record/2282544/files/arXiv:1709.05260.pd... Your statement about huge numbers of authors (as well as the great number of theoretical papers that have to wait a very long time before being confirmed or denied) is true.
- geezerjay 9y agoWow the word-per-author ratio is close to 1. What's behind this padding?