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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6043715" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Site maintenance prevented me from posting this yesterday:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, of course. The primary characteristic for the stuff is "doesn't interact much with the rest of the Universe, except by gravity" - outside of that, we can imagine all sorts of exotic behavior. You just try the basics first, is all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd be interested in hearing, yes. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, if you found one, you'd likely find that if you didn't already have the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in math or physics, you'd likely not be able to follow the presentation - grad school lectures in the area are very math-heavy.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, you take this to mean that nobody questions?</p><p></p><p>The process of hard sciences is dominated by peer review. That's <em>PEER</em> review, not students reviewing teachers. The students generally don't know the details well enough to question them on the spot in lecture - remember that each notable model or result will probably take the student some to many hours of work through the math before they have a real handle on it. </p><p></p><p>And that's assuming that interrupting a speaker in the middle of the presentation (a presentation that's being recorded for public consumption, even) was the socially acceptable way to go about it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The bulk of a graduate student's career is building up just that. One topic builds on the next - you don't see that looking at isolated lectures. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You picked an example that's hard to discuss without touching politics. </p><p></p><p>But, let's consider it this way: how many individuals are actually responsible for the Edition Wars? Modern communications make it possible for a small number of very vocal individuals to make it seem as if there's a fundamental controversy, when none really exists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6043715, member: 177"] Site maintenance prevented me from posting this yesterday: Oh, of course. The primary characteristic for the stuff is "doesn't interact much with the rest of the Universe, except by gravity" - outside of that, we can imagine all sorts of exotic behavior. You just try the basics first, is all. I'd be interested in hearing, yes. And, if you found one, you'd likely find that if you didn't already have the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in math or physics, you'd likely not be able to follow the presentation - grad school lectures in the area are very math-heavy. And, you take this to mean that nobody questions? The process of hard sciences is dominated by peer review. That's [I]PEER[/I] review, not students reviewing teachers. The students generally don't know the details well enough to question them on the spot in lecture - remember that each notable model or result will probably take the student some to many hours of work through the math before they have a real handle on it. And that's assuming that interrupting a speaker in the middle of the presentation (a presentation that's being recorded for public consumption, even) was the socially acceptable way to go about it. The bulk of a graduate student's career is building up just that. One topic builds on the next - you don't see that looking at isolated lectures. You picked an example that's hard to discuss without touching politics. But, let's consider it this way: how many individuals are actually responsible for the Edition Wars? Modern communications make it possible for a small number of very vocal individuals to make it seem as if there's a fundamental controversy, when none really exists. [/QUOTE]
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