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I remember when I was doing my masters I was really excited to go and see Penrose speak, and I was surprised when none of the cosmology staff I had lectures wit
by joe__f 3y ago
I remember when I was doing my masters I was really excited to go and see Penrose speak, and I was surprised when none of the cosmology staff I had lectures with were going to the talk. When I asked them they told me they'd looked and they couldn't see any evidence for cyclic conformal cosmology in the CMB
- oefrha 3y agoThis reminds me of my first day as a PhD student in the department. Talked to a bunch of professors to figure out my potential advisor. Probably the most famous professor out of the bunch surprised me with his really strange BSM theories that AFAICT few people took seriously.
- ramraj07 3y agoIt is generally true that any lecture by a Nobel laureate or a professor very late in their career is for the most part useless. Best case scenario you get a rehash of decades old research you can glean from your review. Worst case is you get what you mentioned.
- ethbr1 3y agoI had an opportunity to see Stephen Hawking give a good talk ~2004, but he was probably more educator than the average. Still humorously sore about needing experimental confirmation to win a Nobel though! (As I would be if I were him)