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If physicists are getting their research directions from pop-sci NYT articles than we are in bigger trouble than merely having interesting theories not pan out.
by throwaway81523 4y ago
If physicists are getting their research directions from pop-sci NYT articles than we are in bigger trouble than merely having interesting theories not pan out.
- kalimanzaro 4y agoGP probably meant young people deciding to go into physics after reading these articles. I'm a physicist and many of us were massively influenced by the pop-sci books we read as kids before we knew better. You don't get specific research directions from NYT but you do get educated in what kind of ideas will get media attention, and that is as bad as the hypothetical big troubles you allude to.
- throwaway81523 4y agoMeh, lots of scientists first got that tendency by watching Star Trek and the like. NYT articles are a huge step upward in rigor, compared to that. I wouldn't worry.