--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:46 PM, yifuxero wrote: > > > Preliminary notes: Auth objects to Vaj's overuse(?) > > of Wiki to bolster viewpoints. > > Vaj hasn't used wikipedia for his viewpoint
Nor did I say he had, nor did I ever object to "overuse" of Wikipedia on Vaj's part. yifuxero made that up, and Vaj is playing along, although he knows I've never made that accusation. Such *integrity*. > as Vaj knows that TM-bots and the TMO are not only > manipulating TM-related entries (and staking them out), Not only does Vaj *not* know that, he knows it isn't true. > they're doing the same thing around Hagelin and Flipped SU > (5). That may be why it doesn't have Flipped SU(5)'s real > discoverer in it's Wikipedia entry, Dimitri Nanopoulos. Just the most *barefaced* lie. The Wikipedia page on flipped SU(5) says: "This theory was invented by Dimitri Nanopoulos, with some collaboration by John Hagelin and John Ellis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_SU(5) And the Talk page for the entry has no discussion or indications that any attempts were made by anybody to keep out Nanopoulos's name. ********************************* Vaj made this up OUT OF THIN AIR. ********************************* Furthermore, while Nanopoulos was the "inventor" of the original flipped SU(5), his version of it is not the one that garnered so much attention and was found to be inadequate relatively quickly. It was Hagelin's revisions to it that made the big splash: he derived flipped SU(5) from superstring theory, which solved a bunch of intractable problems with Nanopoulos's version. Hagelin, Nanopoulos, Ellis, and Antoniadis went on to publish a dozen papers on this version. So if you're talking about flipped SU(5) in both its earlier and later versions, the line on the Wikipedia page is technically accurate, but it doesn't reflect Hagelin's leading role in the most successful version of the theory.
