[Fis] Marni Sheppeard

[Louis Kauffman]

I will say it again.
The guys who run the arXiv routinely suppress even slightly non-status quo physics papers by manipulating their classification.
If you were to write a serious paper on high energy physics it might be reclassified as general physics, which is a code term for content free exposition.
Mathematicians are mostly immune from this treatment, but my physicist friends tell me that this treatment is likely to affect publication, and if you protest the classification, the arXiv guys will say, we’ll redo the classification after your paper is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Catch 22.


> On Jan 27, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Brian Josephson <bdj10 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 27 Jan 2025, at 00:44, Alex Hankey <alexhankey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The ArXiv is run by opinionated physicists and so if you are doing physics they can be upset if your work is upsetting applecarts.
> 
> You can say that again!
> The revolution <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TwFPCbR07F2i42W4UcjpBu9FbRJ713xwUxoG_BRsSRpN8JjZtvmPbmzsLcRO1B5cO2S6nbRDacyEfY89$ > will not be brought to you by arXiv <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/help/general__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TwFPCbR07F2i42W4UcjpBu9FbRJ713xwUxoG_BRsSRpN8JjZtvmPbmzsLcRO1B5cO2S6nbRDaT6LHK4k$ >
> ’cos arXiv deems revolutionary ideas ‘inappropriate’.
> 
> As obstructive as any censor
> Cross readers veto cross listing
> ‘Reader complaints’ win the day.
> 
> The revolution won’t find you through arXiv
> So go tune in another way.
> 
> © Brian Josephson
> 
> Brian
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