From: Jim Armstrong (jarmstro@qwest.net)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 11:34:07 EDT
I've wondered what might have happened to Einstein's three 1905 papers
submitted to Annalen der Physik if Max Planck had not happened to be the
editor at the time. At the time Einstein was still a Swiss patent office
employee, though he had just received his doctorate from the University
of Zurich on the basis of a thesis, "On a new determination of molecular
dimensions". Not much context there alone to suggest anything about the
potential importance of the three papers submitted in 1905 with their
orthodoxy-challenging content! However, I guess I need to fair and note
that one of those papers dealt with Plank's own concepts.
I guess the point of the referee process is that you hope that at least
one of the referees has sufficient competency and vision to recognize of
the essential substance and implications of any papers (concepts)
submitted in spite of the strong gravitational pull of orthodoxy. JimA
Ted Davis wrote:
>Here's a title and abstract for the Tipler article I have suggested that we
>discuss:
>
>"Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy?"
>{snip}
>
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