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There are a limited number of hours in the day. I guarantee you that >99.99% of all nonexpert blogs on the internet are pure garbage—should they spend 50-100 ho

There are a limited number of hours in the day. I guarantee you that >99.99% of all nonexpert blogs on the internet are pure garbage—should they spend 50-100 hours a week reviewing crazy? My field was an uninteresting sub-field of programming language theory, and every conference, at least 1/2 the papers submitted were borderline batshit insane. The stuff on the internet is gibberish. Screaming into the night & railing that physicists are ignoring you is just sociopathy. Instead, go to them, give presentations, prove your ideas have merit. Make it short to get their attention, build up credit & lead them to what’s new.

achillesheels 7y ago
No, it isn’t sociopathy. I, for instance, tried to engage with Sabine Hossenfelder on a novel interpretation of electron diffraction which would help demonstrate linear time-invariance of electromagnetic phenomena in an atomic scale (nickel crystal) only to be completely ignored - despite the fact she posts on her blog a “speak to a physicist” button. In fact, the physicist she paired me with failed to appear to two scheduled Skype calls and explained he was too sick after the fact. And no response from her. So here I am, with ignored emails by professors because they don’t have the bandwidth and I don’t have the branding. Physicists by trade do not trade on advancing the state of the art. That takes courage and risk of reputation. This is why the natural sciences have progressed outside of vocations. “Lead then to what’s new” is better worded as “make it shameful to ignore you”. I am acutely aware of that now.
- cryptica 6y ago
  I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. It's insightful. If anything, the fact that this comment was downvoted helps to prove its point that people tend to quickly discard contrarian ideas without giving them careful thought.

achillesheels 7y ago

No, it isn’t sociopathy. I, for instance, tried to engage with Sabine Hossenfelder on a novel interpretation of electron diffraction which would help demonstrate linear time-invariance of electromagnetic phenomena in an atomic scale (nickel crystal) only to be completely ignored - despite the fact she posts on her blog a “speak to a physicist” button. In fact, the physicist she paired me with failed to appear to two scheduled Skype calls and explained he was too sick after the fact. And no response from her. So here I am, with ignored emails by professors because they don’t have the bandwidth and I don’t have the branding. Physicists by trade do not trade on advancing the state of the art. That takes courage and risk of reputation. This is why the natural sciences have progressed outside of vocations. “Lead then to what’s new” is better worded as “make it shameful to ignore you”. I am acutely aware of that now.

cryptica 6y ago
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. It's insightful. If anything, the fact that this comment was downvoted helps to prove its point that people tend to quickly discard contrarian ideas without giving them careful thought.