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/sci/'s thoughts on Julian Schwinger?

i always thought he was super based but i did some more reading and it turns out that later in his career he got hung up on "source theory" and "dyons" and a lot of shit that turned out to be basically wrong, and he managed to get in a big fight with the other Harvard faculty and he went to UCLA as a result, and then he finally lost all credibility when he got into cold fusion stuff

based or not based?

>> No.10957307

bump

>> No.10957314

>>10956872
Schwinger is based and everything we call "right" today is also basically wrong, and Schwinger is even more based for going against the grain and not being a huge pussy.

>> No.10957316

>>10957314
>everything we call "right" today is also basically wrong, and Schwinger is even more based for going against the grain
how so?

>> No.10957372

>>10957316
I don't really want to list the million things that are known to contradict the mainstream theories. Electroweak theory (the standard model) says neutrinos don't have mass but the 2015 Nobel winners showed that they do. There's a lot of things like that.

>> No.10957402

>>10957372
the standard model has no fundamental issues with adding in not only one but several different options for neutrino mass generation. it's a very small adjustment that fits nicely in the standard model framework.

OTOH pseuds like to harp on new experimental results and say "OH FUCK PHYSICS BTFO" because they are pseuds who prefer to deny science. and consistently, they are wrong and physics carries on

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>>10956872
With the discovery of monopole topological defects (i.e. defects of homotopy type [math]\pi_{d-1}[/math]), as well as the possibility of [math]U(1)[/math]-gauging such defects, dyons had recently became an extremely rich source of both physical and mathematical structure and novelty, especially In lattice QED+electroweak.
For instance, calorons (finite-temperature version of topological instantons) have been found to be formed from the condensation of dyons (as charged Bogomolny monopoles) https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0402010, https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4206, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03268.. Through the caloron correspondence (https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0805)), this hints at a factorization algebra structure of the module category of representations for loop groups [math]\Lambda G[/math]. This has tremendous implications in algebraic and differential geometry, as well as possibly geometric topology.
So no, Schwinger is beyond based and simply ahead of his time.

>> No.10957810

>>10957782
What manga is that?

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>>10957810
It's called "Wild and Hausdorff Hermiticity".

>> No.10958783

>>10957917
Thanks.

>> No.10958819

>>10956872
>dyons
Not necessarily wrong

>> No.10959007

>>10957372
How does the standard model say neutrinos don't have mass?

>> No.10960483

>>10957782
good post. thanks anon.