Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics 53
quax writes "Getting a scientific paper published that goes against the grain of conventional wisdom was never easy. Especially when it seems to contain an obvious glaring mistake. Fortunately despite already being some kind of pop celebrity with no shortage of fan mail, Einstein still opened letters he received from strangers. And this is how a trivial, fateful counting mistake was able to change the course of physics forever."
Re:What is this? (Score:5, Interesting)
You didn't miss much, here's the cached article [googleusercontent.com]
In my opinion it's a lousy written piece with half of the sentences being there for the sole purpose of filling white space.
Re:uhuh (Score:5, Interesting)
or are the physicists the abstract artists of the science world while the mathematicians are the boring paint suppliers?
just saying ...