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  • sounds rubbish to say particles don't have mass but didn't they measure this neutrino going faster than the speed of light lately, so he may have a point

  • i like how he says that what he is saying is not just his opinion and then sites his own work to back it up lol.

    P.S. my impression thus far in the lectures is that he is a moron.

  • So, of course this will make the impression that he is bias or opinionated within the lecture, even though I do not feel he was. Anyways, great lecture! Maybe I can be a student of his one day.

  • I think anyone attacking him are doing so for the reasons that he mentioned in the recent comments. Please watch the entire video, he covers as much as he possibly could within the given time, I greatly enjoyed this and hope the professor continues his work within this particular field. And for the egotism remarks, it is a argumentative lecture, arguing that buddhist philosophy is, in the professors opinion, an empirical reality.

  • "if we had time i could show you that is absurd" "i answer that in an article i published" "I'll deal with that in my article that will be comming out in a few months" Answer their ef'ing questions, thats why they pay you. Again, i agree with most of what this guy says but he is terrible prof.

  • Ok, so I just watched this clip, and these quotes are not in there, so what are you referring to?

  • you only watched this clip? there are a series, notice the "6" up top.. i watched all of them and it was 6 months ago so i'm not going to watch them all over to find where he side steps.. if you are that curious watch them yourself they are there.

  • I'd have to watch my whole talk over again to see where thse quotes come in, and the context. So, what you are expecting, is that I was supposed to have time to refer to every single little bit of research, explain it all fully, in 75 minutes? How's that possible? Also, isn't it okay to reference? This is what we do with footnotes in books, so can't we do this with talks also? And how would you know if I was a terrible prof, were you in my classes?

  • yeah.. if your prof's response to your questions in class discussion were "i've writen about that in blah blah article" or " i covered that in a research paper i did blah" then he really isn't teaching. if you ask about dify q in a cal class the prof better freak'n answer instead of saying, "i discussed that in a project i did".  If a prof is covering too much in his/her course to have time to ANSWER the class questions in discussion then that prof needs to cut back material or extend time

  • cheekeeazn put it well. this prof suffers from intellectual egotism that harms his students. he needs to answer the questions instead of listing his publications

  • of course, these were not students in this talk that I gave at UCLA, it was to a bunch of profs and PhD candidates in the nano-tech department, so they certainly may have wanted to know about some of my other publications, since they invited me all the way out there to talk to them, and since they'd been asking me about my publications, and since they first heard about me because of them.

  • If anybody merely watches this video, they will obviously see that what you state, that I am avoiding questions just to plug my publications, is not at all what was going on, and I merely mention them in passing, almost as a way of saying, 'hey, if you want more info, it is in this publication.' So, I have to conclude that you perhaps want to either(1) attack me for some unknown reason and you are reaching for anything to do so, or (2) you did not watch the video &are attacking for something2do

  • So, if a question is about the 'big picutre' then, I am supposed to tell a person, 'oh, I can't answer that because it will take too much time, and I have to cut back'. So that's good teaching, then? Also, your analogy about diffy q is not appropriate, cuz I was talking to profs, they were my audience, and they wanted a big-picture talk. It was not a bunch of 19 year olds who just want the narrow info needed to get an A on a test. So, not sure how this anaology works.

  • don't jump to conclussions or put words in my mouth. as a prof i would only EXPECT YOU TO ANSWER YOUR STUDENT'S QUESTIONS. If you don't know how to do that effectively or without pushing your publications then it is a good thing you are no longer teaching. i have multiple degrees including a masters & a JD. For 9 years of college/ post grad & lawschool i've never seen any of my profs dodge questions by saying "i did an article on that" or the like. you sold those students short. shame-less!

  • See my comment above. this talk is not to my students, it's to a bunch of profs and PHD candidates in nano-tech who invited me to UCLA to give them a 'big picture' talk. Also, I think you'd have to point out where I am dodgiong questions, rather than just citing a place where I elaborate on an issue in huge detail, as an academic publication is meant to do. I think this debate we are having is a 'small view' debate. There are bigger issues going on in the world than this bickering and egotism.

  • isnt intellectual egotism great :)

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