Sunday, 17 February 2008

cosmic variances goat



Cosmic Variance's GOAT

Well I thought I would just write a reminder to all of you interested

in GOATs (greatest of all time) that Clifford at Cosmic Variance has

been running his vote for the top five physics papers of all time for

just under a week. To make your vote just leave a comment under your

favourite paper's post on the site, any noise will do (but only one

noise is counted). The current standings are:

Newton's Principia 23 votes

Dirac's Quantum Theory of the Electron 13 votes

Noether on Symmetry and Conservation Laws 12 votes

The EPR Paper 7 votes

Einstein's General Relativity 5 votes

So it's time to reinvigorate the votes! Newton's walking it, but

General Relativity can't finish bottom - that's a disaster. So come

on, if you haven't voted go and do so and help avoid this travesty.


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