Re: Is the Electron Charge really infinite

Timo Nieminen a écrit :
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, srp wrote:

Daryl a écrit :

srp wrote:

If you get a doctor's degree, your publications will be
restricted like all of them to what does not stray beyond
accepted paradigms, however restrictive and progress
extinguishing they are. No really new ideas allowed.

Reviewers are typically "chosen", so to speak amongst the
most knowledgeable in orthodox theories and instantly
spot and reject any "adventurous idea" however promising
as too speculative for publication.

I became aware of this very early on in the 1960's as
I observed that no causalist paper was accepted for
formal publication any more, and none has been accepted
ever since.

This is why I chose to stay completely out of the system,
so no one could prevent my publishing my findings and
spreading them out of the community's control.


There are advantages in being a physics major:

1. You are taught everything which you couldn't have
encountered by himself (esp. math)


Up to graduate level, I agree. But even then, this is
all within reach of any individual working alone, If
you think a minute, you will realize that they teach
you nothing that is not already in publicly available
textbooks.

After grad level, if you really do want your masters and
your doctor's degree, you will have to agree with orthodox
theories that you amy already have rejected as invalid,
or else, you simply will not get your further marks of
recognition.

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No straying is allowed and you will be supervized closely
by recognized players in the field that will simply not
let you through if you persist in any out of the beaten path
idea that could muddy the comfortably explored pool of
orthodox ideas.


This is simply not true. "Heretical" science does get published, and not even only in the "crank" journals. As an example, there has been a steady trickle of ether/aether papers in mainstream physics journals. OK, not in the top-of-the-line journals, but they still get published in "offical physics literature". Straying might be difficult (and there is literature supporting this claim), but that's distinct from "not allowed". Students can be successful if they do "heretical" work - if it's good work; I know this from having seen such students do very well.

This is not to say that it's easy to do heretical science or get it published; just that the "no" and "will not let you through" are wrong. "Difficult" is not "impossible".

Yeah well, I know students are allowed to stray a little (but never too
far). I was talking about the mature post-doc community.

To name only a few, de Broglie, the finest theoretician in
electromagnetism of the past century had to create a foundation
so his causalist ideas could be published.

Paul Marmet, one of the finests physicists of our time had to have
is latest and best papers published in a little known (over here)
journal in Russia.

It is not withoug reason that "too speculative" ideas are not even
admitted for discussion on spr. They get the same treatment for
formal publication.

Fundamental physics has simply become a grand driven business.

Finishing understanding physical reality has not been the driving
force for at least the past 50 years.

That's what I have observed.

André Michaud
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