Conversation started Mar 26, 2014 at 5:14.
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
Mar 26, 2014 05:14
hello... has anybody heard about an e-infinity theory?
i was just reading an article and the author was talking about discrete space-time (wtf?) and mentioned this E-\infty theory
Mike
Mike
Mar 26, 2014 05:28
@PoliTolstov who was the author?
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
ji huan-he
in a paper about solitons and compactons
Mike
Mike
he's a follower of Mohamed El Naschie, who developed the "theory" you're talking about. el naschie is a crank
Sush
Sush
A,B and C are three commodities. A packet contains 5 pieces of A, 3 of B and 7 of C costs $24.50 . A packet containing 2,1 and 3 of A, B and C respectively costs $17.00 The cost of a packet containing 16, 9 and 23 items of A,B and C respectively is......" and answer is $100
But i can't understand how the answer is derived. it is 3 variables in 2 equations! so isn't the info lacking?
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
yes @Mike... i was reading on wikipedia about him...
Mike
Mike
huan-he appears to have done actual mathematics, but i would ignore anything he says about physics.
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
Mar 26, 2014 05:36
really? And i saw he has a lot of publication...
Mike
Mike
you can get a lot of publications without having any content to them.
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
it's kind of 'dangerous', isn't it? I mean, there should be more control on what is being published
Mike
Mike
only some journals care about publishing quality papers. some make money from the authors who just want to get their papers published, or some will publish anything in general
it takes time to learn which journals are of a good quality and which aren't. the journal "Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals" which you probably got that paper out of isn't a good one.
the fact that Elsevier was glad to allow El Naschie to edit this journal that he frequently published in with no supervision is a problem and speaks poorly to Elsevier
(but what doesn't speak poorly to Elsevier?)
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
hum... i don't know...it's a kind of "selected works"... works.bepress.com
Mike
Mike
how did you find this paper?
Poli Tolstov
Poli Tolstov
Mar 26, 2014 05:45
i was reading another paper i found on arxiv by someone name Paul Bracken ( this does not to seen a 'bad' mathematician )... and at that paper he mentioned the word 'compacton'... and i googled 'compacton' and found ji huan-he between many results
Mike
Mike
compactons, solitons, that sort of thing are real mathematical objects that are a source of study
it's just that there are a group of people who publish nonsense using those words too.
 
Conversation ended Mar 26, 2014 at 5:49.