Tracy P. Hamilton
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Joined: May 2006
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| Quote (didymos @ May 10 2010,14:52) | | Quote (keiths @ May 10 2010,12:46) | | Or perhaps a more generic award for any instance of skillful GEM-baiting. In any case, my hat is off to efren ts. |
Well, intentional or not, this is Gordon-bait par excellence:
| Quote | madbat089
05/10/2010
12:05 pm
kairofocus:
hmmm, I guess I should know better than to take your word at face-value:
I just checked your claim that Einstein’s publication of the theory of relativity in “Annalen der Physik” was not peer-reviewed. Well, here are the facts: as was the practice for any scientific publication in 1905, the article was indeed reviewed by the publishers of the journal, in this case by Max Planck and Wilhelm Wien (two extremely prominent scientists in his field, in case anyone didn’t know), undoubtedly Einstein’s peers. The practice of having an article reviewed by scientists other than the publishers came into practice after WWII, because the sheer volume of submitted publications made the old practice of publisher-review impractical.
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I'm thinking it may well be though: note the username. |
Not to mention madbat089 did not make an error in describing how science was done.
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