[betty boop]

This willful blindness is an “observer problem” – and it leaves the deep questions, the important ones, on the back burner of science and math. The net result is that science and math these days is more about instrumentation, application and utility than exploring the big questions. The days of the big thinkers in science and math are long gone.

Thank you so very much for your beautiful witness, Alamo-Girl.

I hope and pray the days of "big thinkers in science and math" are not long gone. Yet sadly, I note that oftentimes these days, the big new ideas get "peer reviewed" into oblivion. It seems that science is losing its impartial habit of mind and, along with it, its integrity....

May God abundantly bless you, dearest sister!

[YHAOS]

"It seems that science is losing its impartial habit of mind and, along with it, its integrity...."

Uh-oh, now you've gone and done it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for your encouragements!

I hope and pray the days of "big thinkers in science and math" are not long gone. Yet sadly, I note that oftentimes these days, the big new ideas get "peer reviewed" into oblivion. It seems that science is losing its impartial habit of mind and, along with it, its integrity....

So very true. I wonder what would have happened if Einstein, Godel and those of his era were subjected to the "peer review" of today?

It's Albert's World...

The journal that published his 1905 papers, Annalen der Physik, was the leading physics journal of the day. Among the editors who reviewed his submissions were Nobel laureate Wilhelm Roentgen, who discovered X-rays, and Max Planck, another Nobel winner, who came as close to matching Einstein in sheer brain power as anyone else ever did. If such esteemed editors found merit in the theories of the government clerk then, Schulmann said, it is likely that they would do so today.

But even Schulmann said it would be an iffy proposition. Much of Einstein’s work was multidisciplinary and abstract, while physics today is focused and empirical.