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   >>>>>>>>>> potential confounds,when you should have been minimising them.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> It seems to me that you haven't done any experimentation and just   
   >>>>>>>>> repeats what others have already said.   
   >>>>>>>>> Basically, you want to continue   
   >>>>>>>>> believing in the status quo.   
   >>>>>>>>> The only way, 'perhaps,' to convince you is to have you witness   
   >>>>>>>>> long experimental PNN tests without further chatter.   
   >>>>>>>>> But that's not possible.Besides it seems to me that you are not   
   convinced   
   >>>>>>>>> that Lorentz force can exist in circuits in which alternate current   
   flows.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Regards   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Thank you for keeping Mr Sloman amused.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It's Dr.Sloman.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Given a sound theoretical basis confirmed by experiment, it is our   
   >>>>>> company policy to never hire PhDs.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That makes sense. The literature survey is an essential part of a any   
   >>>>> Ph.D. thesis, and it has to demonstrate a capacity of for critical   
   >>>>> thinking. John Larkin doesn't like criticism.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Just four of the problems with PhDs:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Years of being forced to kowtow to authority   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't recall doing much of that.   
   >>>   
   >>>> and   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ingrained unwillingness to think crazy   
   >>>   
   >>> My Ph.D. work didn't proceed the way my supervisor had expected. There   
   >>> wasn't anything crazy about using computers and modern electronics, but   
   >>> he wasn't familiar with either - it didn't worry him, though he would   
   >>> have liked it to go faster.   
   >>>   
   >>>> and   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Affection for complexity.   
   >>>   
   >>> Knowing what you are doing - not your strong suite - can lead to   
   >>> elaborations that the less well-informed can see as unnecessary   
   >>> complexity. My colleagues were known to describe me as "gadget happy"   
   >>> but were happy enough to accept my help when writing computer programs.   
   >>>   
   >>>> and   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Lack of common sense   
   >>>   
   >>> You think that Trump has common sense. Anything that cures what he has   
   >>> got has got to be a good thing.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Phil, of course, is the rare exception. The occasional dose of   
   >>>> gin+tonic cures any residual academic side effects.   
   >>>   
   >>> Alcohol does make people stupid.   
   >>>   
   >>>> I've been to some meetings of physicists. They are brutal, instantly   
   >>>> attacking any non-scientifically-defensible idea. Not a good   
   >>>> brainstorming environment.   
   >>>   
   >>> They can probably spell defensible correctly too.   
   >>>   
   >>> You can waste a lot of time in brain=storming sessions on obviously   
   >>> impractical ideas. Getting rid of them without inhibiting the expression   
   >>> of the unconventional idea you want can be difficult. Not including   
   >>> ignorant half-wits in the the brainstorming session is an easier solution.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Are chemists the same way?   
   >>>   
   >>> The ones I interacted with mostly knew what they were talking about,   
   >>> which didn't prevent heated discussions.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> When I was in high school, I worked two summers in the physics   
   >> department of LSUNO. MIcrowave spectroscopy and Mössbauer Effect   
   >> mostly.   
   >>   
   >> They registered me as a fake student so they could pay me 50 cents per   
   >> hour, made me student number 20,000.   
   >>   
   >> I noticed even then the streak of cruelty that runs through academic   
   >> physics.   
   >   
   >I can't say I've seen it. But you seem to be able to detect cruelty in   
   >the less favourable responses you get here.You probably had even more   
   >exaggerated ideas about your capabilities back then than you have now.   
      
   A guy was applying to get into grad school, and was making a   
   presentation about particle accelerators to the dean and a prof,   
   basically an oral qualification exam. I was invited to sit in. The guy   
   did his talk, the dean asked a couple of questions, and the dean said   
   "I think I've heard enough" and they just walked out. The poor student   
   was crushed.   
      
   I thought that was cruel.   
      
   I have seen that sort behavior in other physics meetings.   
      
   Engineers are not often that skilled in brutality.   
      
      
      
   John Larkin   
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