Roadblocks deter today’s Einsteins
DOI: 10.1063/1.4797442
If a new Einstein, with a revolutionary theory, were to suddenly appear in the 21st century as the old Einstein suddenly appeared in the early 20th, his or her paper would never see the light of day. Imagine it, a person with no PhD, no university affiliation, an unheard-of theory backed by equations constructed by that person alone, with no lab data to back it up?
Lee Smolin may be right that we are wasting our time on string theory, but in today’s physics community only credentials and conformity count.
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William J. Aghassi, (waghassi@aol.com) Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, New York, US .
