Questions about submitting papers for peer review

[Demystifier]

I'm just starting my first year at university so I'm pretty excited.

Good luck!

 

[berkeman]

Collaboration is the salient point here. Most of the newest papers on experimental physics on arxiv doesn't even bother to mention the authors anymore. It's the "ATLAS Collaboration", the "CMS Collaboration", the "STAR Collaboration" and so forth.

The heydays of the "natural philosopher" are well and truly over. Theoretical physics may still have the lone genius but even Einstein didn't develop his theories alone.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...-about-the-nobel-prize-rule-of-three.1056063/

 

[sbrothy]

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...-about-the-nobel-prize-rule-of-three.1056063/

That does indeed seem unfair. The "maintenance" guy servicing the superconducting magnets or whatever is probably every bit as educated as the guys actually writing the paper. He or she must be left with a rather bad taste in his/her mouth.

No, the world just isn't fair. :(