tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post595776813133492454..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: This and ThatSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24946327454518498102008-10-16T15:15:00.000-04:002008-10-16T15:15:00.000-04:00Hi Andrei,Well, FQXi was open to everybody. So let...Hi Andrei,<BR/><BR/>Well, FQXi was open to everybody. So let's hope they get enough funding in to continue next year. I don't know of any comparable initiative. <BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34547886488830594652008-10-16T14:59:00.000-04:002008-10-16T14:59:00.000-04:00So, what are you going to do? If yours is "blue-sk...So, what are you going to do? If yours is "blue-sky research", there are no many agencies ready to support this, especially for a long time. Maybe you can remain at PI? I think they could continue to employ you already because of this blog activity. Because it may well happen that all those so self-important and great theories will eventually turn out to be variously limited, wrong, fruitless, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-51180870566628413002008-10-16T10:01:00.000-04:002008-10-16T10:01:00.000-04:00Andrei: What I am interested in is not a big secre...Andrei: What I am interested in is not a big secret, you can read my blog, my papers, or my homepage to find out. FQXi is not presently accepting grant applications. Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43299125009408757922008-10-16T09:57:00.000-04:002008-10-16T09:57:00.000-04:00Bee said: "I could need some blue sky". But they a...Bee said: "I could need some blue sky". But they also have another condition, that of a truly "blue-sky" and simultaneously "provable", concrete advance. So what's yours? Or if it's a secret, then at least a subject, general idea... Because being at the Perimeter Institute, you could apply to a similar FQXi initiative (already done?), with a very big chance to win, just <I>due to</I> strong Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18056260946052105652008-10-16T07:09:00.000-04:002008-10-16T07:09:00.000-04:00Hi Stefan,Thanks again for the heads up and it’s n...Hi Stefan,<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the heads up and it’s nice to see there are more papers being released for free distribution, with this one being a mere 48 years old. This of course is not to complain for as you point out they all in the main are important works and as you allude to in you post perhaps the reader won’t need to consider they might be wrong with surviving as being relevant Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4362510704784641212008-10-16T06:57:00.000-04:002008-10-16T06:57:00.000-04:00About Economist article, bad papers, the whole &qu...About Economist article, bad papers, the whole "Publish or Perish syndrome":<BR/><BR/>"Everybody Writes [ papers ]...NOBODY READS [ incl peer review ]"<BR/>-- Dr. W. Haken, UIUC math prof<BR/>[ personal communication, he proved 4-color theorem by computer with his colleague ]<BR/><BR/>I am not surprised that junk papers get published.<BR/><BR/>In my field 25 yrs ago, my Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1711324808049817802008-10-15T20:32:00.000-04:002008-10-15T20:32:00.000-04:00Weak forces' chiral symmetry breaking gives diaste...Weak forces' chiral symmetry breaking gives diastereomeric interactions. Gravitation is 10^(-25) of Weak force strength. Chemically identical, opposite parity atomic mass distributions will violate the Equivalence Principle.<BR/><BR/>Centimeter radius opposite parity test masses are enantiomorphic crystallographic space groups P3(1)21 and P3(2)21: quartz, cinnabar, benzil. Do a parity Eötvös Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69495133266722253122008-10-15T20:25:00.000-04:002008-10-15T20:25:00.000-04:00To bad one can only apply for the the Blue Skies a...To bad one can only apply for the the Blue Skies award if one "holds a permanent post or Royal Society Fellowship in either a UK university or not-for-profit research organisation," I could need some blue sky.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.com