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I mean, physicists are notorious for chasing crackpot theories in other fields for the exact same reason - they assume their background is sufficient to underst
by Fomite 5y ago
I mean, physicists are notorious for chasing crackpot theories in other fields for the exact same reason - they assume their background is sufficient to understand the current progress of a field, when it's not.
- robocat 5y agoYet Physicists sometimes hit the jackpot too: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
- _3u10 5y agoClassic.
- pfdietz 5y agoYeah, like that crackpot Alvarez and his nutty "an asteroid killed the dinosaurs" theory! It turned out to be right, of course. Sometimes entire fields get stuck in bad equilibria and need to be disrupted.