Sunday, September 19, 2010

An Apology and a Reminder

I just deleted a comment on a previous post, I will not tell who sent it, or exactly what it was about. It had the broad topic of mysticism and religion. While I am happy to discuss such things, this is not the forum for such discussions.

Please do not send comments about such topics to me. I will not publish them.

If you want to discuss physics, that is fine. If you think you have proved Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Feynman, Hawking, etc. wrong, tell the New York Times, not me! I sincerely doubt that your theory will meet my standards...

If you have interesting ideas about physics, that is fine. I have an open mind, but it is not so open that I am liable to fall in... I also am completely skeptical of wild claims (ask anyone that has been a speaker at a physics colloqium or seminar that I have attended...).

This blog is about theoretical physics education and research. Let's limit it to that.

George

1 comment:

  1. I have had the same experience (we have talked about this on email). A couple of papers I had written and published appeared on the ArXiv blog run by the MIT Technology Review. Unfortunately, there are some long-term crackpots who hang around there and are continuously PISSED the world does not see their genius in overturning relativity, QM etc.

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