Re: How to get a paper published as an independent unknown

From: Alastair _at_ Nodem (_at_)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:05:48 +0000 (UTC)

Hontas F. Farmer III wrote:
> Jay R. Yablon wrote:
>
> I think it was Stephen Hawking in one of the many Documentaries he
has been
> involved in who said something to the effect of:
>
> In physics one has to wait for the old guard to die off before their
new
> ideas will be truly accepted.

You are probably referring to "Planck's Principle" (taken from Max
Planck's Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers)

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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