In my last post I promised to very soon present the version of the manuscript on Quantum Gravity and Lignin Adhesive that I would be submitting to Nature . Today is the day that I do this.   To some extent I had expected that it would take longer, but as I read the publishing guidelines by Nature , it became clear that even though I had to make some changes, these changes weren’t extremely laborious.   The main text needed to be separate from the figures, as the layout of the

Do you know what the most frustrating phrase in science is? It’s “It needs more data”. As in “I acknowledge that you state that you are observing a pattern emerging from your data, but I think there’s a good likelihood that you’re just attributing meaning to random noise”.  The reason why this phrase is frustrating is because the phrase is both kind of right and kind of wrong.   Very often in science, the first signs of a fundamental discovery are vague. You observe an anomal

I’m in the (hopefully) last stages of submitting my manuscript on the Theory of Quantum Gravity and Lignin Adhesives and while I’m polishing the paper to fit all of the criteria for Nature , I’m also feeling quite nervous of the streetlight effect .   I might have mentioned the streetlight effect in at least one previous post. According to Wikipedia, the story goes like this: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has