Gill also e-mailed Walter that he should not work with me, because I was just an ignorant engineer (I am actually a member of both the National Academy of Science and Engineering and Walter knew that, of course).
Well that is a lie. These guys were paranoid. Hess still is. Very sad.
Those who exclusively for truth have yearned
and then discovered it
Have been since ages crucified and burned.
They blocked my emails because they were so certain they were right (their paper was reported in newspapers around the workd). So they never understood the point.
Walter had a serious brain tumour. I knew Karl's credentials. Seems I should post my side of the correspondence here. Pity Walter is dead.
Notice that Hess says that *Mermin* said I was a card-carrying probabilist. Well, Mermin wouldn't know the difference between a probabilist and a statistician. Mermin was wrong. I am just, merely, a statistician, and proud of it.
Hess is the one says I am a third-rater, twice. What an innocent, honest, nice person he must be.
Please post more of the correspondence, Joy. I got the impression that Hess was an aggressive, unpleasant, arrogant person. Who couldn't admit to making a mistake and never grasped the issues. But maybe he's a nuce guy really, just mistaken. It can happen. It is very good there is a channel of communication open now via Hans de Raedt. Who really is a nice guy.
I got the idea of the coincidence loophole from Hess and Phillip. This was a really important step forward. Nobody had studied it before. Nowadays, the experimenters are using Larsson and my adjusted CHSH to take account of the loophole. So the Hess-Phillip paper was not a dead end at all, though it actually kind of meant the opposite to what the authors claimed at the time. Now Hess has turned around. Great! Progress!
By the way, there was absolutely nothing in the Hess-Phillip work either about post-selection because of the detection loophole or because of the coincidence loophole. After fixing their typo, their theorem was no longer true, but the maths could be given a new interpretation as a detection loophole model. The needed renormalization could be done by probabilistically conditioning on hidden variables, separately in both wings of the experiment.
The idea that they "invented" the coincidence loophole is ludicrous. Their work inspired its discovery. Fantastic. One sees that engineer Hess is a bit muddled. Mathematician Phillips blew the maths, physicist Hess blew the physics. I think that neither understood what the other was doing, and no-one checked the details, till Gill and other evil guys did it. Hess still has no idea. Very very sad. And he is in poor health, Hans tells me.
[quote]Gill also e-mailed Walter that he should not work with me, because I was just an ignorant engineer (I am actually a member of both the National Academy of Science and Engineering and Walter knew that, of course).[/quote]
Well that is a lie. These guys were paranoid. Hess still is. Very sad.
[quote]Those who exclusively for truth have yearned
and then discovered it
Have been since ages crucified and burned.[/quote]
They blocked my emails because they were so certain they were right (their paper was reported in newspapers around the workd). So they never understood the point.
Walter had a serious brain tumour. I knew Karl's credentials. Seems I should post my side of the correspondence here. Pity Walter is dead.
Notice that Hess says that *Mermin* said I was a card-carrying probabilist. Well, Mermin wouldn't know the difference between a probabilist and a statistician. Mermin was wrong. I am just, merely, a statistician, and proud of it.
Hess is the one says I am a third-rater, twice. What an innocent, honest, nice person he must be.
Please post more of the correspondence, Joy. I got the impression that Hess was an aggressive, unpleasant, arrogant person. Who couldn't admit to making a mistake and never grasped the issues. But maybe he's a nuce guy really, just mistaken. It can happen. It is very good there is a channel of communication open now via Hans de Raedt. Who really is a nice guy.
I got the idea of the coincidence loophole from Hess and Phillip. This was a really important step forward. Nobody had studied it before. Nowadays, the experimenters are using Larsson and my adjusted CHSH to take account of the loophole. So the Hess-Phillip paper was not a dead end at all, though it actually kind of meant the opposite to what the authors claimed at the time. Now Hess has turned around. Great! Progress!
By the way, there was absolutely nothing in the Hess-Phillip work either about post-selection because of the detection loophole or because of the coincidence loophole. After fixing their typo, their theorem was no longer true, but the maths could be given a new interpretation as a detection loophole model. The needed renormalization could be done by probabilistically conditioning on hidden variables, separately in both wings of the experiment.
The idea that they "invented" the coincidence loophole is ludicrous. Their work inspired its discovery. Fantastic. One sees that engineer Hess is a bit muddled. Mathematician Phillips blew the maths, physicist Hess blew the physics. I think that neither understood what the other was doing, and no-one checked the details, till Gill and other evil guys did it. Hess still has no idea. Very very sad. And he is in poor health, Hans tells me.