VfD vote - removed April 22 2004 - no consensus to delete VfD
Consensus to keep. DJ Clayworth 19:11, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC) |
Can you give cites for the topics in this article, please? Many of the terms used in it cannot be found anywhere on the Web. -- The Anome 01:34, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This article appears to be somewhat suspicious. Examples:
- Lawrence M. Krauss is not listed as a Nobel laureate, although he is a real theoretical physicist who wrote a book on the "Physics of Star Trek".
- The term "Lebesgue Dice" does not occur anywhere in the sense intended in Google's index.
- Nor does "Manning-McArdle Conjecture".
-- The Anome 08:16, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- It sounds weird, but as weird as many of Feynmann's inventions. I'd rather keep the article but it is really badly written... "is when...". If I have the time I may want to fix it, but do not trust me for it. In any case, things as negative probabilities, etc... have been discussed in academic circles (although I do not know about specific references, but I am not an expert). I took the notice away but put a stub one. Pfortuny 08:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Citation for the Gowers paper, please. I'm inclined to treat this as a leg-pull until I'm convinced about that.
Charles Matthews 08:47, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
OK, I'm convinced this is a student prank. I say delete.
Charles Matthews 16:20, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
These look like real references to me:
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1995NYASA.755..904Y
- http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/library/colloq/colloqyoussef.html
Also my quantum physics is a little sketchy, but one of the references cited is "How much time does a tunneling particle spend in the border region?". I would not, on my own knowledge, rule out the idea that the answer to that question may be negative. Of course, I may be wrong. DJ Clayworth 16:39, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) DJ Clayworth 16:36, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I have trimmed this down to only material that can be corroborated from the Web. I agree, the original looked like a leg-pull with a smidgen of true material to add confusion. Unless someone can give a cite. -- Anon.
- I think the article as it is is a good starting point. Someone knowing about Feynman's ideas might add something more (ideas of which I only have a scent). Pfortuny 20:31, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Feynman was a Bayesian, as you would expect for a physicist. My recollection from Feynman, is his sentence "Probability is best defined by betting". The red flag is the minor tag from the originator of this article, clearly a student prank. dmn's bogus Weisstein URL is a clear indication of a prank. Ancheta Wis 07:24, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I heard Youssef give a paper at a scientific conference in Santa Fe several years back examining complex probabilites and the theory was treated seriously though not all agreed with the suggestion. I suggest keeping it. Tony Vignaux 07:33, 2004 Mar 18 (UTC)