325xi;190602 Wrote: > They aren't necessarily the best, they're quick-or-easy-to-pay-off. > There are so many fields where paying off isn't as imminent, and when > someone comes with an idea going somewhat against the accepted theories > the researcher often gets eaten by the crowd. > So, when you declare a necessity to select what to research, and you > don't make sure who exactly is going to make the selection, you always > risk to bury the good stuff for sake of personal ambitions or money.
Can you give a single example of that? (Probably there are some, but I don't know any.) In every case I know, when a new and correct idea comes along it gets very quickly snatched up by a significant fraction of the field. Factors like sociology can sometimes slightly delay the acceptance or success of new ideas, but that's about it. Einstein is a good example - working at a patent office, young, totally unknown, comes up with a brilliant, shocking, and totally innovative set of ideas which challenged people's most fundamental assumptions about the world. And yet his ideas were almost immediately recognized (within the physics community at least) as correct, and within a few years he was famous. A few old fogies never accepted his ideas, and he himself never accepted the next wave of innovative (and correct) ideas, but most of the field did. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33547 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
