Re: Quantum Gravity 193.5: Converting Clifford Algebra and Physics To Probability Equations Via 2 --> 1 + P(A<-->B)
- From: OsherD <mdoctorow@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:07:07 -0800
From Osher Doctorow
I assume that you are referring either to my posting urging people to
study on their own via the internet rather than the universities
unless they can get into the best ones that I mentioned, or else that
you are referring to my posting on sci.physics after having left
Academia.
The number of readers that one has (that is, who read one's postings
on sci.physics) and the degree to which they believe what one writes
with or without being a current professor are difficult to determine,
while on the other hand a current professor in a university certainly
has many listeners in classes and has Ph.D. students and has
"credibility" among colleagues (often depending on seniority or number
of papers published).
Still, you might be surprised to learn that Pierre de Fermat of 1600s
France actually did almost no publications and all his discoveries
were via letters that he sent to various other mathematicians and
scientists, in which he usually announced his results and only
sometimes gave his full proofs (a secretiveness that he shared with
Sir Isaac Newton until Newton was persuaded by the Royal Society to
publish to counteract Leibniz' publications in a sort of national
contest sense). A few of his (Fermat's) friends who received his
letters published them posthumously, and that is why we now have
Cryptography and Modern Number Theory and Probability Theory among
others.
Socrates also did not publishing; his student Plato wrote his
biography and described him, and Plato is regarded as founding
Philosophy.
Faraday didn't even know much mathematics throughout his life, making
him somewhat of a pariah among his colleagues, but his physical
intuition and experimental and observational abilities triumphed.
Osher Doctorow
Osher Doctorow
On Nov 3, 2:05 pm, Huang <huangxienc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes. There is a tremendous freedom gained by operating outside of the
official burocracy, but you also have the drawback that you dont
really have any official credentials and so people may or may not take
you seriously or even believe what you say at all, even if you can
provide mathematical proof of what you are saying.
But I would also add that while there are many thousands of
professionals in math and physics, there seems to be very few who
pursue it outside of that sphere. There are many who post in here, and
many who are very knowledgeable. But it seems that if you have 10
professionals that there should be at least 1,000 amateurs following
them around. I just dont think that this is the case.
I think that the independent theorist is really in the minority. Seems
that there are many students who use these groups, some others who
want to float their theories, and just a very few who are serious
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