Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
by drran on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:46AM
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In free software distribution, we have "leaders" and "maintainers". Maintainers are volunteers which are keeping up to date just few software packages. Leaders are choosing a general direction of a distro.
IMHO, something similar can be applied to science. Leaders can chose a general direction of a collection of papers, while maintainers will work on small areas, keeping them consistent and up to date with new research.
For example:
- LIGO/VIRGO discovery of gravitational waves means that the speed of light in vacuum is not constant. It's constant in "steady" vacuum only.
- Discovery of Higgs boson means that vacuum is not an empty space, because Higgs field is present everywhere.
These recent discoveries significantly changes the field of science, so a bunch of classic paper must be updated or discarded in favor of new ones.
IMHO, something similar can be applied to science. Leaders can chose a general direction of a collection of papers, while maintainers will work on small areas, keeping them consistent and up to date with new research.
For example:
- LIGO/VIRGO discovery of gravitational waves means that the speed of light in vacuum is not constant. It's constant in "steady" vacuum only.
- Discovery of Higgs boson means that vacuum is not an empty space, because Higgs field is present everywhere.
These recent discoveries significantly changes the field of science, so a bunch of classic paper must be updated or discarded in favor of new ones.