Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
And this is how you get a positive crackpot index.
Though I’ve known legit physicists and engineers take pride in there >0 CI.
I feel like it’s all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.
Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)
If any paper contains these misspellings of Feynman, Einstein or Hawking I would consider them at best sloppy writers.
To be fair they’re physicists, not English majors
Sure, but misspelling historically significant names is a pretty bad sign for any flavor of science really.
I’m pretty sure Brits would want to stone me if I called that apple guy Newdon.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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