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When you work in a research institute, you get used of receiving messages of people thinking they have a new theoritical model explaining physics. But that's no
by poulpy123 5y ago
When you work in a research institute, you get used of receiving messages of people thinking they have a new theoritical model explaining physics. But that's not how science works. When you're a scientist you work on a specific topic of a specific branch of a specific science. Then you publish your work in one of the mainstream revue of your field. Then if your work is interesting, other scientists use your article to gain more comprehension and as a base of their own work. Rarely but sometimes your work is so fundamental that it can be used in other fields.
But you simply don't just say that you're revolutioning physics, biology, economy and the rest. A truly revolutionary work is deemed revolutionary not by yourself but by the other scientists and the impact on the field.
And Wolfram is not some kind of ermite lost in the middle of Siberia. He knows how that work and he has the credentials and the money to publish where he wants.
- poulpy123 5y agoNote also that nobody is doing anything to stop him to do what he wants.
- emteycz 5y agoUniversities and science academies are full of guys loudly announcing their revolutions. Wolfram uses his own money for it - I respect that.
- Pilottwave 5y agoWolfram is saying that the new multicomputational paradigm that, he is heavily intellectually invested in and paying for the R&D himself, MIGHT revolutionize physics biology economy and the rest. This blog post is about scaling up the efforts, by founding an institute, to see if this new paradigm can actually deliver. So weird for the hackernews audience to hate on this mans idea's so much. Its worth a shot no? Elon Musk is often hailed a hero for paradigm shifting to reusable rockets and wanting to use this to colonize mars. But try and do a paradigm shift in physics, out of pocket, and the haters come out in droves. I say let the man have a go at it. We might learn something!