A paper on the mass of the Higgs boson has 5154 authors.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803
A paper by the COVIDsurg collaboration at the University of Birmingham has
15025 authors.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/653537-most-authors-on-a-single
A plausible figure of merit regarding the number of authors that is
reasonable for accountability is inversely proportional to the argument
surface providing cover for motivated reasoning.
The Standard Model has 18 adjustable parameters within a mathematical
formula with a short algorithmic descri
James,
My working definition of "truth" is a pattern that predicts. And I'm
tending away from compression for that.
Related to your sense of "meaning" in (Algorithmic Information)
randomness. But perhaps not quite the same thing.
I want to emphasise a sense in which "meaning" is an expansion of
