Russell, Are you telling me only a single person, Bruno's advisor, was the judge of whether Bruno's paper should be awarded the prize? And that single person first approved it and then rejected it when he had some dispute with Bruno? That sounds quite strange to me. Normally it would be a whole panel of judges to approve it, and the whole panel to reject it.
Edgar On Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:58:55 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:15:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Ghibbsa and Bruno, > > > > Yes, a fair question. Apparently the committee decided Bruno's paper > didn't > > really deserve the prize. Why was that? Some internal math error > > discovered? Some inconsistency with other math theory? Or just > unwarranted > > assumptions and conclusions about its application to the real > universe? > > If it were any of these, then Le Monde would publish a formal > retraction, which would indicate that the prize was awarded, and then > subsequently withdrawn, along with the reasons for the withdrawal. > > Instead, the award to Bruno Marchal is not mentioned at all: > > > http://www.lemonde.fr/kiosque/recherche/laureats/prix-recherche-laureats.html > > > I > > also don't rule out politics, but if the theory is clear and logical > > usually politics itself won't be able to trump that. > > Exactly. Even if you don't believe Bruno about being awarded le Prix > Le Monde, it shouldn't matter, as whether or not he was awarded a > prize makes no difference as to whether his ideas are correct. To > argues otherwise is the fallacious argument from authority. > > Nevertheless, the Wayback Machine has kept a copy of the original > lists of Laureats, as it appeared on 9th of August 2001: > > > http://web.archive.org/web/20010809221720/http://www.lemonde.fr/mde/prix/janv99.html > > > I think Bruno is correct that something nefarious occurred. > > > > > So Bruno, can you give us both your side of the story and a link to the > > other side as well so we can independently judge why the prize for your > > theory's paper was revoked? > > > > Thanks, > > Edgar > > > > The other side of the story has never been made public. You can read > all about Bruno's side of the story in The Amoeba's Secret, now in English > for > the first time. > > My only comment is that I don't think X's hostility towards Bruno > started when he mentioned the question "Goedel?" in class. That, in > itself, should not be sufficient to earn the ire of even the most > seasoned of psychopaths. Instead, I suspect the relationship soured > badly during Bruno's end-of-studies dissertation, probably because > Bruno had an inquiring mind, and X just wanted him to focus on his own > research interests (not an uncommon occurrance - I had something > similar in my PhD, but without the consequences Bruno > faced). Nevertheless, that doesn't excuse X's actions, which remain > appalling by anyone's standard. > > As to what actually happened with le Prix Le Monde - its possible > nobody will ever know. All we have are Bruno's suspicions. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpc...@hpcoders.com.au<javascript:> > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
