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> and may spend the next ten or twenty years aggressively fighting against it regardless of its merits. it seems more accurate to say that they retire and the
by naringas 6y ago
> and may spend the next ten or twenty years aggressively fighting against it regardless of its merits.
it seems more accurate to say that they retire and the new generation of physics professors are more open to those ideas because they encountered them as students before building a career on some sub-sub field which migh have ended up as a dead end...
- BalinKing 6y ago(Possibly) obligatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-math-works https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-math-works
- floatingatoll 6y agoI’m going to edit this into my post now because it’s so much better than what I said! Thanks!
- ncmncm 6y agoAs Max Planck is quoted, "Science progresses one funeral at a time". (He probably said it in German.) I just wonder how many biochemists will need to retire and get Alzheimer's before work on suppressing amyloids is finally abandoned, and something that could possibly work gets a grant. In the meantime, take your valacyclovir!