04-June-2007, 03:20 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Superluminal
Also, they were proved wrong by a machine. If some snot nosed grad student walks in, points at your chalk board and says, "Hey, that's wrong."
I think your liable to see quite a different reaction.
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Indeed.
However, if he says "Hey, that's wrong." in the nicest possible way, or if his name was Edward Witten, or ...*
* There's a delightful passage in Zee's "Quantum Field Theory", Chapter I.2 ("The professor's nightmare: a wise guy in the class", my bold): "Suddenly, a very bright student, let us call him Feynmann, asked, [...]" |