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It's relatively common practice in academia to make announcements about results while they're still in pre-print form (particularly given how slow the peer revi
by jonathan_gorard 6y ago
It's relatively common practice in academia to make announcements about results while they're still in pre-print form (particularly given how slow the peer review process is for some journals).
- knzhou 6y agoIt's common practice to "announce" in the sense that you email colleagues about it and give seminars. It's not common practice to do a press blitz, solely directed at an audience that will be unable to criticize it.
- chrisco255 6y agoThe internet is pretty good at criticizing things.
- knzhou 6y agoWell yeah, but a lot of the criticism is baseless. For example, you have people downthread saying things like "this can't be right because it's discrete", or, "it's inherently impossible for a theory of everything to make predictions", and so on. These aren't true at all. Every physicist knows that if you want good criticism, you need to go to people with relevant expertise. That's what peer review is!
- chrisco255 6y agoBut they're doing that too. Given we live in the information age, why the hell not send it out in both a traditional research publication as well as a forum like this one? A lot of smart people out there in the world and if you can get 10,000 geniuses to look it over, who says it won't lead to either better criticisms or expansion of a potentially sound theory into other discoveries?
- 9q9 6y agoI've never announced my papers before they were accepted by a conference or journal (other than putting them on arXiv). I would certainly not let my university's press office mention my work if it was not fully peer reviewed. I've never seen this from my colleagues either.