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Revision as of 11:26, 2 August 2005 by 82.123.41.210 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)In 2002, a pair of brothers (Igor and Grichka Bogdanov), managed to get several papers published to physics journals which were purposly considered by a French physicist, Max Niedermaier, as a hoax similar (to Sokal) pseudoscience under a layer of dense technical jargon. Max Niedermaier retracted publicly and the brothers have since defended their theories (which claim to deal with the area of quantum groups and topological field theory), and the veracity of their work seems to have recently gained new supporters among certain researchers in theoretical physics : http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/bogdanoff-papers.html.
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- A discussion of the controversy.
- Additional discussion with various people related to the brothers academically.
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