http://www.sciscoop.com/2003-12-3-234310-441.html Scooping up science news and dropping it on your desk Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sciscoop.com/2003-12-3-234310-441.html/comment-page-1#comment-2048 apsmith Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:39:36 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=389#comment-2048 <a href="http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/">Brian Josephson</a> has been known for this sort of stuff since the 1980's. Josephson is <a href="http://www.aps.org/WN/">Bob Park's</a> favorite example of the lack of any necessary correlation between a Nobel Prize and a sound mind... My grad school advisor was a student along with Josephson at Cambridge in the 1950's/60's - he had a few stories to tell... But the Josephson effect in superconductivity is a rather remarkable discovery, so you have to give the guy some credit for that (well, he did get a prize for it!) Brian Josephson has been known for this sort of stuff since the 1980’s. Josephson is Bob Park’s favorite example of the lack of any necessary correlation between a Nobel Prize and a sound mind… My grad school advisor was a student along with Josephson at Cambridge in the 1950’s/60’s – he had a few stories to tell… But the Josephson effect in superconductivity is a rather remarkable discovery, so you have to give the guy some credit for that (well, he did get a prize for it!)

]]> http://www.sciscoop.com/2003-12-3-234310-441.html/comment-page-1#comment-949 Drog Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:06:01 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=389#comment-949 An interesting paper. Although it is only a vague qualitative sketch of an actual theory, it is most interesting to see an esteemed physicist employed by a prestigious university actually voice the opinion that we should not be so quick to dismiss paranormal phenomena as utter nonsense. Scientists have been very reticent to mention anything to do with parapsychology, UFO's, etc. ever since (I think) Erich von Daniken's books for fear of facing ridicule and hurting their careers. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new trend. An interesting paper. Although it is only a vague qualitative sketch of an actual theory, it is most interesting to see an esteemed physicist employed by a prestigious university actually voice the opinion that we should not be so quick to dismiss paranormal phenomena as utter nonsense. Scientists have been very reticent to mention anything to do with parapsychology, UFO’s, etc. ever since (I think) Erich von Daniken’s books for fear of facing ridicule and hurting their careers. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new trend.

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