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I invoke Poe's law on this. It's meaningless not-even-wrong physics written with a narrative structure that would be best modeled as a random walk. I honestly
by heisenzombie 6y ago
I invoke Poe's law on this. It's meaningless not-even-wrong physics written with a narrative structure that would be best modeled as a random walk.
I honestly can't tell if it's satire or bunk.
For something in this vein that I find quite delightful, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ -- I definitely know which side of Poe's law it's on.
- ajkjk 6y agoagreed, I can't discern anything concrete in here
- heisenzombie 6y agoOK, now I'm really confused. The author has published papers in the past, such as: https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.090702 https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.1... My work happens to be related to accelerator physics, though I don't know much about free-electron lasers (the subject of the paper). But here's the thing: The paper looks pretty normal, though I don't understand chunks of it. It only has one author, which is a bit weird, but nothing jumps out at me as bunk. Gosh. I hope she's OK.
- T-A 6y agoThat's an applied physics (aka engineering) paper. It is perfectly possible to be an expert on some narrow applied topic, yet have no understanding at all of the theoretical foundations.
- Barrin92 6y agoit reads like a somewhat disconnected piece of how different fields of physics relate to roughly the same thing by using different language, I can't really judge the physics analogies because all I got is undergrad maths