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The problem is that you need to be a domain expert to tell which parts are crazy. It's not a general consumption resource.
by frisco 16y ago
The problem is that you need to be a domain expert to tell which parts are crazy. It's not a general consumption resource.
- hugh3 16y agoTrue. Though the best heuristic that a non-physicist can apply is that if something on the arXiv sounds interesting, it's probably crazy. Non-crazy papers have titles like Universal quantum control of two-electron spin quantum bits using dynamic nuclear polarization and Towards finite density QCD with Taylor expansions and tend to be of interest to around four people in the world, of whom three may or may not be the authors.
- frisco 16y agoRight, and "Eternal Inflation Predicts That Time Will End" totally fails that test. (I don't mean to sound like I'm attacking you -- I agree with you. This is re: the OP)