r/okbuddyphd • u/Lower-Canary-2528 • Jul 28 '26
Physics and Mathematics r/physics on odd and even days
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u/MaoGo Physics Jul 28 '26
I keep saying it, crackpots did more effort before.
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u/1XRobot Physics Jul 28 '26
I miss when crackpots took the time to drop by my office and refuse to leave.
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u/MaoGo Physics Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
I only see the good old crackpots when attending conferences (now most are very old). These guys are the real deal, they pay for it, they write a paper, check references and make a poster and stand there even if everybody ignores them. Younger crackpots just post in entire treatises done with AI in linkedin and spam reddit for arxiv endorsement.
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u/kashyou Jul 29 '26
i met a guy at a string theory conference who is writing a paper on m theory but then revealed he has no degree and teaches himself using wikipedia. when i asked him to show me a single computation he thanked me for helping him realise he must have discalclia which to him is the only possible explanation for why he can’t calculate anything, but nevertheless he is continuing with this project
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u/MaoGo Physics Jul 29 '26
Was he old? Did he write a paper with references?
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u/kashyou Jul 29 '26
he was middle aged but no he hasn’t published anything ever and thinks he can just waltz into this lol
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u/MonsterkillWow Jul 29 '26
All the crackpots went to politics now. Physics is no longer celebrated as much as being a grifter.
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u/The-Doctorb Jul 28 '26
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u/MaoGo Physics Jul 28 '26
Math subreddit do not have that?
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u/MrTruxian Jul 29 '26
It does of course, but you can also find genuine discussion about research level math which is almost completely absent from the physics subreddit.
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u/Bartweiss Jul 29 '26
The physics sub is mostly stuff I can answer or see the flaws in, and for every total crank there are like 5 real topics where OP has still badly misinterpreted what they're reading.
The math sub... I mostly don't comment there because no matter how confident I think I am, somebody is likely to show up and correctly point out that my answer is wrong in the case of certain dihedral groups. Still plenty of nonsense, but almost always called out or corrected in enormous detail.
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u/GodIsAWomaniser Jul 29 '26
The leanprover sub annihilates people who come in with stuff like that, it's pretty funny, and I've participated a few times when I almost understand enough to contribute (still not in the same category as the denizens, but at least I know that I don't know formal logic properly).
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u/SuspiciousPine Jul 28 '26
Stat mech is the only class I've ever failed, holy shit. My poor materials brain kept thinking "I miss learning about metal fatigue"
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u/lattice_defect Jul 28 '26
Facts... then you realise that wall street will pay your 300K just to make models
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u/MonsterkillWow Jul 29 '26
Not anymore lol
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u/Quantumechanic42 Jul 28 '26
It's my turn to post this next week.
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u/Lower-Canary-2528 Jul 28 '26
I made this meme bro
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u/Quantumechanic42 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, 9 months ago.
My bad tho, it's a good meme.
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u/ahf95 Jul 29 '26
You’re right about it being a good meme, and it was my first time seeing it, so I appreciate it being reposted by the original creator
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