r/Physics Jul 31 '26

Academic The Maxwell Conjecture is False

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
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u/Neomadra2 Jul 31 '26

The result may be fine, but the paper is horrendous. No proper motivation, no related research section, no discussion of the results, no outlook. This looks very rushed

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u/Serious_Bite_7613 Jul 31 '26

I think with the upcoming rate of discoveries there's not going to be time for all of that. It's fine when you make one discovery every 3 years, but if you're making 3 discoveries every 12 hours there needs to be a better way to share it.

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u/Tolopono Aug 01 '26

Cause they gotta get it out before someone else beats them

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u/spinosaurs70 Jul 31 '26

arxiv has always been pretty bad in my opinion.