Re:The Wolfram Physics Project
by knzhou on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:43PM
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It's common practice to "announce" in the sense that you email colleagues about it and give seminars. It's not common practice to do a press blitz, solely directed at an audience that will be unable to criticize it.
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Re:The Wolfram Physics Project
by chrisco255 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:57PM
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The internet is pretty good at criticizing things.
Well yeah, but a lot of the criticism is baseless. For example, you have people downthread saying things like "this can't be right because it's discrete", or, "it's inherently impossible for a theory of everything to make predictions", and so on. These aren't true at all.
Every physicist knows that if you want good criticism, you need to go to people with relevant expertise. That's what peer review is!
Re:The Wolfram Physics Project
by chrisco255 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:21PM
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But they're doing that too. Given we live in the information age, why the hell not send it out in both a traditional research publication as well as a forum like this one? A lot of smart people out there in the world and if you can get 10,000 geniuses to look it over, who says it won't lead to either better criticisms or expansion of a potentially sound theory into other discoveries?