Re:Black Hole Tech?
by eru on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @06:37PM
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Indeed. But the book was nothing to write home about.
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To a first approximation, nobody writes home about science books. These days everything is a juried paper.
Oh, the problem is that Wolfram portraits his book as the ultimate breakthrough, even though at bests its an entertaining pop-sci tome.
See http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089
Also funny, from the same author:
> “The impact of NKS on all the areas of computer science and physics I’m familiar with has been basically zero,” he says. “As far as I can tell, the main impact is that people now sometimes use the adjective ‘Wolframian’ to describe breathtaking claims for the trivial or well-known.” [Martin] Davis offers a sunnier take: “The book has a lot of beautiful pictures.”
When the book was finally published, demand was low, with an initial print run of 400 failing to sell out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coele...