English
Related papers

Related papers: Comment on "Scientific Regress" (First Things May …

200 papers

The Internet-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited web-sites on the Internet. However, critics have questioned the quality of entries, and an empirical study has shown Wikipedia to contain errors in a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Finn Aarup Nielsen

Some thoughts are presented on the inter-relation between beauty and truth in science in general and theoretical physics in particular. Some conjectural procedures that can be used to create new ideas, concepts and results are illustrated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Constantino Tsallis

Here we respond to the comment by Tsagas (gr-qc/0503042) on our paper gr-qc/0503006. We show that the results in that comment are flawed and cannot be used for drawing conclusion about the nature of magnetic field amplification by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Betschart , C. Zunkel , P. K. S. Dunsby , M. Marklund

We attempt to provide a comprehensive model of evolution of science across millennia taking into account the contributions of other intellectual traditions, cultural value system and increasing in sophistication of humans in their study of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 M N Vahia

The "Comment on: Detecting Vanishing Dimensions Via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy" [arXiv:1104.1223] is misleading and premised on a misinterpretation of the main content of Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101101 (2011) [arXiv:1102.3434].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonas Mureika , Dejan Stojkovic

General relativity's successes and limitations are compared to those of special relativity.

General Physics · Physics 2007-11-08 Wasley S. Krogdahl

This is a Reply to the Comment posted as arXiv:1207.1261.

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 Qi Li , D. Belitz , John Toner

This is the extended version of a Comment submitted to Physical Review Letters. I first point out the inappropriateness of publishing a Letter unrelated to physics. Next, I give experimental results showing that the technique used in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua Goodman

How many times have you tried to re-implement a past CAV tool paper, and failed? Reliably reproducing published scientific discoveries has been acknowledged as a barrier to scientific progress for some time but there remains only a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Tom Crick , Benjamin A. Hall , Samin Ishtiaq

This is a broad and in places unconventional overview of the strengths and shortcomings of our standard models of fundamental physics and of cosmology. The emphasis is on ideas that have accessible experimental consequences. It becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank Wilczek

Humans do not just find mistakes after the fact -- we often catch them mid-stream because 'reflection' is tied to the goal and its constraints. Today's large language models produce reasoning tokens and 'reflective' text, but is it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Sion Weatherhead , Flora Salim , Aaron Belbasis

Reproducibility is widely acknowledged as a fundamental principle in scientific research. Currently, the scientific community grapples with numerous challenges associated with reproducibility, often referred to as the ''reproducibility…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Benjamin A. Antunes , David R. C. Hill

In a recent comment [arXiv:1405.2978v1 (2014)] Romanenko and Grassellino made unsubstantiated statements about our work [Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 092601 (2014)] and ascribed to us wrong points which we had not made. Here we show that the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. Ciovati , P. Dhakal , A. Gurevich

Communication is essential for the advancement of Science. Technology advances and the proliferation of personal devices have changed the ways in which people communicate in all aspects of life. Scientific communication has also been…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-01-19 José Nelson Amaral

The Comment by Duval et al. [PRL 96, 099701 (2006)] addresses an important, but not the main, result of our Letter [PRL 95, 137204 (2005)]. It does not contradict our results in substance, and the only objection is really on the style of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Di Xiao , Junren Shi , Qian Niu

While space-based telescopes have had a part to play ultimately I feel that it is telescopes like myself that have contributed the most to pushing the boundaries of our knowledge. With current advances in optical engineering we have the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 Jeremy A. Barber

The goal of this article is to give an overview of the current limitations and epistemological barriers in Science and Scientific Philosophy from a very general point of view. We first list and define the types of knowledge nous, doxa and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 J. E. Horvath , R. R. Fernandes , T. P. Idiart

The 2008 book Superstition: Belief in the age of science, by Robert Park, published by Princeton University Press is briefly reviewed.

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-01-16 Adrian Melott

This is a reply to a comment by P. Schlottmann and A.A. Zvyagin.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Yu Ge , Mark D. Gould , Jon Links , Huan-Qiang Zhou

We survey recent developments on the Restriction conjecture.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Terence Tao