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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by outlace on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:49AM (#36668138)
Genuine question here, when was the last time a total outsider made a significant contribution to physics?
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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by sandworm101 on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:18PM (#36668519)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subauroral_ion_drift

Not exactly the discovery of a new quark, but it triggered realworld research into the cause of the phenomena. That qualifies as contribution imho.

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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by FollowingTheDao on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#36668629)
Ask yourself; why are they outsiders in the first place?

It's like asking why hasn't anyone who is not a player in major league baseball ever won a world series?

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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by outlace on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:42PM (#36668936)
Those are disanalogous in the case of theoretical physics where you don’t need access to any expensive equipment. There’s nothing in principle preventing someone from learning math and physics on their own or from a traditional university and then coming up with new theories alone. And in fact this happens all the time and most of those people get called crackpots.
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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by 1270018080 on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:06PM (#36669304)
A better analogy is asking why someone who is bad at baseball isn't on an MLB team
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Re:The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy by tonycoco on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:10PM (#36668404)
When was the last time an insider made one?
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