I cannot speak to your private examples, but I think you may be reading that into what Politzer said.
Not me. This tip-off story had been talked about in the community for a long time, just never publicly until Politzer decided to carefully and tactfully state what he knew personally and avoid speculating on what might have transpired. The result itself, of course, was ripe for discovery, and indeed was discovered but glossed over by others before him. I mentioned this particular story because it’s one of the most famous and most public ones. Of course, it might all be rumors and in reality there was no issue.
‘When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras’. I see here by Politzer’s testimony a multiple discovery of at least 3 (Gell-Mann and the more-than-one persons implied by ‘several’) and you ask me to believe that a fourth multiple is not yet another multiple but rather a plagiarism/theft based, solely on you say it was being talked about. It’s not exactly a convincing case.
The general narrative sounds very similar to cases in my own field, but I’d rather not talk about it. I’ve been cautioned not to speak about my current projects with certain people, on account of this.
David Gross and his student had completed the same calculation, and they found it was plus.
A week after Politzer shared his calculation:
the Princeton team had found a mistake, corrected it, and already submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters.
Why would they decide to redo the calculation (not a very hard one, but rather laborious back then, though it’s a standard one in any grad QFT course now) at exactly the same time?
Anyway, no point in further speculations without new data.
Not me. This tip-off story had been talked about in the community for a long time, just never publicly until Politzer decided to carefully and tactfully state what he knew personally and avoid speculating on what might have transpired. The result itself, of course, was ripe for discovery, and indeed was discovered but glossed over by others before him. I mentioned this particular story because it’s one of the most famous and most public ones. Of course, it might all be rumors and in reality there was no issue.
‘When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras’. I see here by Politzer’s testimony a multiple discovery of at least 3 (Gell-Mann and the more-than-one persons implied by ‘several’) and you ask me to believe that a fourth multiple is not yet another multiple but rather a plagiarism/theft based, solely on you say it was being talked about. It’s not exactly a convincing case.
The general narrative sounds very similar to cases in my own field, but I’d rather not talk about it. I’ve been cautioned not to speak about my current projects with certain people, on account of this.
A week after Politzer shared his calculation:
Why would they decide to redo the calculation (not a very hard one, but rather laborious back then, though it’s a standard one in any grad QFT course now) at exactly the same time?
Anyway, no point in further speculations without new data.