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Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-the-math dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What is this? by bryonak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You didn't miss much, here's the cached article

    In my opinion it's a lousy written piece with half of the sentences being there for the sole purpose of filling white space.

  2. Re:uhuh by mister2au · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or are the physicists the abstract artists of the science world while the mathematicians are the boring paint suppliers?

    just saying ...