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> In the past two years, a network of quantum gravity theorists, mostly millennials, There you have it: millennials are killing the Hawking Information Paradox
by syncsynchalt 5y ago
> In the past two years, a network of quantum gravity theorists, mostly millennials,
There you have it: millennials are killing the Hawking Information Paradox industry.
(It's always been said that mathematicians do their best work when they're young, it seems weird to mix generational cohorts into it)
- coliveira 5y agoIt is a favorite pastime of journalists to attribute events to a particular "generation", as if there was any kind of explanatory power in doing this.
- FatalLogic 5y agoMaybe it's a subtle reference to Planck's Principle [0], which is often summarized as "Science advances one funeral at a time"? In this case, suggesting that younger scientists might invest their time into new ideas that older scientists would dismiss. [0] https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-advance-one-funeral-at-a-time-study-suggests/3010961.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-adva...
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoThere is also the statement that when an old scientist tells something is possible, then it is certainly possible, but if they express it is impossible, then it is possible.
- pvarangot 5y agoI think the blurry line for millennials put the oldest of us at something like 34 to 38 years old now? So yeah most people that got into academia after their bachelors and just finished their post-doc should be a millennial.
- hanniabu 5y agoClassic millennials and their cancel culture /s