Comment by duskwuff
3 days ago
> [crackpots] were concentrated in certain areas that really would have been overrun with them
Let me guess: theoretical particle physics, relativity, gravity, and magnetism?
3 days ago
> [crackpots] were concentrated in certain areas that really would have been overrun with them
Let me guess: theoretical particle physics, relativity, gravity, and magnetism?
Not so much magnetism, but maybe that's because I'm trained in cond-mat and I think of magnetism as a kind of order in materials and not that dual of the electric field which people explain with that weird right hand rule. (I remember getting chewed out my students because I'd be drawing on the board with my chalk in my right hand and using my left hand and reversing the direction.)