Men and women after my own heart

[bandwraith at aol.com]

"Much of physics dances around the really big questions - what is stuff ultimately made of, when did the Universe begin, how will it end, and so on - the kinds of questions that invite theories and speculation from all corners of humanity...

 ...when someone can couch their pet theory in the language of mathematics, sometimes it can just about pass for physics proper.

And of course, he said, "there were always crackpot submissions." "

"How to give voice to the more… let's call them speculative physics submissions among them? Put them in sessions all to themselves..."

"Sometimes crackpots regard each other as crackpots, and are annoyed at being placed in that session," said a chairperson of one such session at this year's April meeting - who should probably remain nameless...
But physics - some of the really tricky stuff - can be so mathematically dense that even the organisers slip up."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22171039

I love the crackpots.



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