I don't think the entire reason for the symbols is just for show. Yes, this is a great example of what open community can do, but seriously what do the symbols mean?
I've seen no one crack that yet.
Frank Shoemaker did work at Fermi and at Princeton.
I'm not certain what his area was, but Phi is the symbol for magnetic flux. Could it be that the symbols represent some error in data that Frank would dismiss as noise?
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I don't think the entire reason for the symbols is just for show. Yes, this is a great example of what open community can do, but seriously what do the symbols mean? I've seen no one crack that yet. Frank Shoemaker did work at Fermi and at Princeton. I'm not certain what his area was, but Phi is the symbol for magnetic flux. Could it be that the symbols represent some error in data that Frank would dismiss as noise?