<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I will say it again.<div class="">The guys who run the arXiv routinely suppress even slightly non-status quo physics papers by manipulating their classification.</div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">Catch 22.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Brian Josephson <<a href="mailto:bdj10@cam.ac.uk" class="">bdj10@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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On 27 Jan 2025, at 00:44, Alex Hankey <<a href="mailto:alexhankey@gmail.com" class="">alexhankey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">You can say that again!</div>
<div class=""><p class=""><em class="">The <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TwFPCbR07F2i42W4UcjpBu9FbRJ713xwUxoG_BRsSRpN8JjZtvmPbmzsLcRO1B5cO2S6nbRDacyEfY89$" style="" class="">revolution</a> will not be brought to you by <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/help/general__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TwFPCbR07F2i42W4UcjpBu9FbRJ713xwUxoG_BRsSRpN8JjZtvmPbmzsLcRO1B5cO2S6nbRDaT6LHK4k$" target="_blank" style="" class="">arXiv</a><br class="">
’cos arXiv deems revolutionary ideas ‘inappropriate’.</em></p><p class=""><em class="">As obstructive as any censor<br class="">
Cross readers veto cross listing<br class="">
‘Reader complaints’ win the day.</em></p>
<em class=""></em><p class=""><em class="">The revolution won’t find you through arXiv<br class="">
So go tune in another way.</em></p>
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