Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is one of the most important papers in the history of the field. >> > > We should be patient -- I don't think it's been out long enough to receive > full scrutiny, so there might be some methodological flaw that is turned up. >
I doubt there is a problem. These people are experts and they have been at it for a while. They went through a couple of Hot Cats, as you see. If there is a problem then it isn't important. It is inconsequential! You can consider my statement conditional. > Also, not that it would necessarily bear on the substance of the paper, > since the mainstream journals have been uncooperative, but I'm anxious to > see whether the paper has been accepted for publication in one. > I doubt it. That is too much to hope for. This will have an impact even without that. > We also wish to thank ... Prof. Alessandro Passi (Bologna University >> [ret.]) for his patient work in translating the text. > > > Since only two of the authors appear to be Italian, and the rest of them > presumably Swedish, I would have figured that drafts of the paper would > have been in English from the start. > My guess is they mean he edited or cleaned up the text to make it standard English. The English is so good I assumed they have a native speaker go over it. It is difficult for anyone to write a paper in a second language that is so good, a native speaker thinks it was written by another native speaker. You can usually spot a few words. I noticed a few things even in papers by Martin Fleischmann. He spoke English superbly but on rare occasions he made slight errors in idiomatic expressions. - Jed
