Brillouin has been relying fairly heavily on old results and enduring confidence. I hope the enduring confidence signifies a continuance of good empirical results rather than relatively unsupported certainty in theoretical notions. I hope they can release some more recent results.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:06 PM Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> I will ask Tom if he has a paper about his Brillouin work. >> > > I ended up asking him if he has even heard of this this claim. Quote: > "Maybe they think your technique resembles theirs but they have not > discussed it with you." > > In this field, researchers often appropriate other people's work as proof > of their own claims. Mills does that a lot. The people he cites often > disagree. In some cases they have no idea he is citing them. I am not > saying that is unethical. It is perfectly okay; just as it is okay to cite > the work of a researcher who died long ago. But it is a little awkward. > Kind of silly. I would give the person a head's up. > > - Jed > >
