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In summary, the conversation discusses the coordination of thousands of authors for a paper on the use of the LHC at a Physics convention. There is also a debate on the contribution of the authors and the length of the list of authors. The conversation ends with a humorous comment on the length of the list and the possibility of having separate lists for contributors and authors.
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Flash mob at a Physics convention?
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Fun fact: There are about 10 000 words in the paper, so around 1 word per author. That is not counting the list of authors at the end: It is just as long as the paper itself so then we have 2 words per author!
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I assume the problem is it uses the lhc, which means anyone who contributed to running it becomes an author.
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A. Where did you get that number? It should eb 3000-4000.
B. Which author or authors do you think did not contribute?
B. Which author or authors do you think did not contribute?
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mathematicians have something to learn
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Francesco Costanza. If he's anything like his brother George he's just coasting on the work of others.Vanadium 50 said:
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Brian Cox is missingOffice_Shredder said:
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Which surname - Aad or Zwalinski - would be better for a physics career?
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Maybe time to have a list of contributors and a list of authorsOffice_Shredder said:
Thousands of authors... Nice piece of phone directory, I guess
Ps.: well, that's actually not exactly a joke... Sometimes what you need is just a list of names possibly working in a specific field of study. But thousands of names - ugh
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Unfortunately the paper is not peer-reviewed - they were all listed as co-authors except that one guy nobody likes who got left out and he is too pissed to read the paper
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