This is a reminder that today is the last day of voting for The Greatest Physics Paper!
The five papers are by Newton, Noether, Einstein, EPR, and Dirac. You just make a comment on the thread of the post that you get to by clicking a name, and that’s your vote. You have one vote. In voting, you may, if you wish, tell us about why you made that choice.
Voting ends 9:00pm, Jan 16th Pacific Standard Time.
-cvj
[Update: I always meant Monday....but had written the 15th instead of the 16th. Sorry.]
January 16th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Get Out the Vote
Today is the last day to vote in Cosmic Variance’s Greatest Physics Paper contest. If you haven’t voted yet, go over there and pick a paper. Locally, I’m still collecting nominees for the Greatest Physics Experiment. A quick scan through…
January 16th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Is it fair to other papers to have one paper win? Historic White Protestant European oppression of authors – Science Citation Index – must be shriven with victims’ compensation. Uncle Al nominates
http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0205089
as the most intelligently fabricated paper of the 20th century. A compassionate world would give massive majority funding and exclusive publishing priority to the worst contenders, just as social policy does. One fervidly anticipates the academic equivalent of income redistribution wherein a large fraction of the productivity of able scientists would confiscated and awarded to disabled ones, by law. Those who do nothing at all would be the most richly assured of a bountiful periodically incremented vita.
Quotas for supporting the incompetent are forbidden. Those who do not meet their quotas will be crushed. We’ll call that “Fair Research Practice.”