On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:06, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
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.
All jury confronted with my thesis has been enthusiast, and apparently
get the point. Even the Brussels jury. The problem has never come from
any scientist, nor any member of a jury, with the exception of the
literary philosopher in Brussel's jury. I did get the prize (the
picture in the journal, the champaign, but the publication of the
thesis, and then if the amoeba's secret where delayed, without any
explanation.
Bruno
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subsequently withdrawn, along with the reasons for the withdrawal.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 theory's paper was revoked?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.
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