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Upvote for interesting! I'll probably read it. But Nature. And "but Magueijo", who is a bit of a crank in his own right (FTL, VLS), and who seems like a sour
by wrycoder 5y ago
Upvote for interesting! I'll probably read it.
But Nature. And "but Magueijo", who is a bit of a crank in his own right (FTL, VLS), and who seems like a sour dude: per WP: "In [his] book, Magueijo described British culture as the "most rotten societies in the world"." A real hatchet job!
Perimeter gives a home to people who would otherwise have difficulty finding funding. Most will fail. But then...
Einstein could never have got a grant for his "annus mirabilis". And probably not even one to fund his GR work.
- T-A 5y ago> Perimeter gives a home to people who would otherwise have difficulty finding funding. Gave. Past tense. https://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-physics-pioneer-walked-away-from-it-all https://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-physics-pioneer-walked... http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-scientist-creates-crisis-anticrisis.html http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-scientist-creat...
- wrycoder 5y agoFascinating articles. I think Bee analyzes the situation at Perimeter correctly. With Turok gone, maybe the pendulum will swing back a ways. One can hope. Markopoulou, 38, hooked up with Doyne Farmer, 57, and got pregnant while taking a road trip from Santa Fe to San Francisco in a 42 year old Datsun convertible. And they are still together. I've been following Farmer's progress since the '70s, but I hadn't heard that one. Great stuff, thanks very much!! Got me to break out my old copy of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control.
- narrator 5y agoReading these articles, I think somebody might be able to make a difference by funding experiments only. This would make sure to avoid string theory stuff and other non-falsifiable dead ends. You go write your theoretical paper somewhere else, but if you need to do an actual experiment, come to the perimeter and they'll pay for the equipment and such for you to try it.