It feels like Management doesn't understand that producing proper papers takes time and is only used to "Traditional Office-Work" and have never done any real R&D, testing, & Validation.
The Nature of the Universe, Time Travel and More...
- Thread starter Will The Serious
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Ironically, when it comes to academic research, the bean counters require things they can measure rather than intangibles. I suspect many great researchers from the past would not thrive today.
This is why upper management in Academic Research should never be run by "Bean Counters".
It should be a former or existing Academic Researcher who runs the management side.
We all saw how disastrous Boeing became when the "Bean Counters" started taking over.
You can't have leadership run by accounting, that's a recipe for disaster.
Leadership is only handed over to the Bean counters when sales staff is unavailable. My experience is it is Sales, or the scientific equivalent (grant writers, fundraisers, endowment, etc.), that drives R&D, production, AND the bean counters. As a former engineer for a manufacturing company, the promises made to make a sale were often insane.
However, as has been discussed above, there are plenty in the scientific community that thrive on intangible non-deliverables. Often, even a well informed manager doesn't understand the full details of the concepts being researched.
-Will
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-g...ng-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
"the idea that gravity is a collective effect — not a fundamental force, but the outcome of swarm behavior on a finer scale — still compels physicists."
Interesting thought. If this is the case, perhaps there might be cases where all the elements of the collective are not present and gravity might behave differently.
"Earlier this year, a team of theoretical physicists put forward(opens a new tab) what might be considered a modern version of those 17th-century mechanical models. “There’s some kind of gas or some thermal system out there that we can’t see directly,” said Daniel Carney(opens a new tab) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who led the effort. “But it’s randomly interacting with masses in some way, such that on average you see all the normal gravity things that you know about: The Earth orbits the sun, and so forth.” "
Getting awfully close to an aether. The Michelson-Morley experiment supposedly disproved aether. Maybe there is an aether, but it doesn't interact with light. It doesn't seem likely that there is an aether-like substance that causes gravity, but doesn't interact with light. But, maybe.
"...Entropic Gravity, pegs that deeper physics as essentially just the physics of heat. It says gravity results from the same random jiggling and mixing up of particles — and the attendant rise of entropy, loosely defined as disorder"
"The new model has the virtue of being experimentally testable — a rarity when it comes to theories about the mysterious underpinnings of the universal attraction."
Gotta love that.
"when physicists used quantum mechanics to study what happens in the distorted space-time around a black hole, they find that black holes give off energy like any hot body. Because heat is the random motion of particles, these thermal effects suggest to many researchers that black holes, and the space-time continuum in general, actually consist of some kind of particles or other microscopic components."
It is difficult to suggest something like space and/or time can warp without a physical presence.
-Will
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
"the idea that gravity is a collective effect — not a fundamental force, but the outcome of swarm behavior on a finer scale — still compels physicists."
Interesting thought. If this is the case, perhaps there might be cases where all the elements of the collective are not present and gravity might behave differently.
"Earlier this year, a team of theoretical physicists put forward(opens a new tab) what might be considered a modern version of those 17th-century mechanical models. “There’s some kind of gas or some thermal system out there that we can’t see directly,” said Daniel Carney(opens a new tab) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who led the effort. “But it’s randomly interacting with masses in some way, such that on average you see all the normal gravity things that you know about: The Earth orbits the sun, and so forth.” "
Getting awfully close to an aether. The Michelson-Morley experiment supposedly disproved aether. Maybe there is an aether, but it doesn't interact with light. It doesn't seem likely that there is an aether-like substance that causes gravity, but doesn't interact with light. But, maybe.
"...Entropic Gravity, pegs that deeper physics as essentially just the physics of heat. It says gravity results from the same random jiggling and mixing up of particles — and the attendant rise of entropy, loosely defined as disorder"
"The new model has the virtue of being experimentally testable — a rarity when it comes to theories about the mysterious underpinnings of the universal attraction."
Gotta love that.
"when physicists used quantum mechanics to study what happens in the distorted space-time around a black hole, they find that black holes give off energy like any hot body. Because heat is the random motion of particles, these thermal effects suggest to many researchers that black holes, and the space-time continuum in general, actually consist of some kind of particles or other microscopic components."
It is difficult to suggest something like space and/or time can warp without a physical presence.
-Will
Mavity actually /shttps://www.quantamagazine.org/is-g...ng-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
"the idea that gravity is a collective effect — not a fundamental force, but the outcome of swarm behavior on a finer scale — still compels physicists."
Interesting thought. If this is the case, perhaps there might be cases where all the elements of the collective are not present and gravity might behave differently.
"Earlier this year, a team of theoretical physicists put forward(opens a new tab) what might be considered a modern version of those 17th-century mechanical models. “There’s some kind of gas or some thermal system out there that we can’t see directly,” said Daniel Carney(opens a new tab) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who led the effort. “But it’s randomly interacting with masses in some way, such that on average you see all the normal gravity things that you know about: The Earth orbits the sun, and so forth.” "
Getting awfully close to an aether. The Michelson-Morley experiment supposedly disproved aether. Maybe there is an aether, but it doesn't interact with light. It doesn't seem likely that there is an aether-like substance that causes gravity, but doesn't interact with light. But, maybe.
"...Entropic Gravity, pegs that deeper physics as essentially just the physics of heat. It says gravity results from the same random jiggling and mixing up of particles — and the attendant rise of entropy, loosely defined as disorder"
"The new model has the virtue of being experimentally testable — a rarity when it comes to theories about the mysterious underpinnings of the universal attraction."
Gotta love that.
"when physicists used quantum mechanics to study what happens in the distorted space-time around a black hole, they find that black holes give off energy like any hot body. Because heat is the random motion of particles, these thermal effects suggest to many researchers that black holes, and the space-time continuum in general, actually consist of some kind of particles or other microscopic components."
It is difficult to suggest something like space and/or time can warp without a physical presence.
-Will
