This scholarly article applies Google’s PageRank to find underappreciated physics papers. They actually have a Google number Gi similar to proportionality constant G below. This is an old post from a few years ago.
Average Google number versus number of citations
The currency ((Currency means the standard unit of exchange.)) of the web is links. ((A Google search reveals a lot of web currency! Apparently this concept was first voiced in 2002.)) And authority is proportional to links:
Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
Authority is proportional to links, so,
A :: L
Therefore,
A = G L.
where G = 1 Google is the standard defining the authority between two unit pages separated by unit link.
I wrote about the Scholastic PageRank before:
. . . scholastic points are computed according to the rules of the oldest PageRank in existence. Much like Google’s PageRank the inner workings of the Scholastic PageRank is secret and it is known only to the practitioners.
When a string theorist publishes a commentary and links it to Witten, Witten’s Scholastic PageRank and therefore his authority increases. That’s why writing commentary, a vehicle whose sole purpose is to create links, ((also proves why doctors hate to read other doctors’ papers.)) has been, and still is, the main activity of scholastic doctors of philosophy.
Scholastic physics and the web have the same architecture. Doctors of physics build a network whose nods are called papers instead of web pages. The more links a Doctor garners the more authority she has. This process defines scholastic physics, aka, academic physics. ((academic physics includes both theoretical and academic experimental physics.)) The content of scholastic physics is defined by link baiting that doctors must practice in order to advance in the hierarchy.
In physics Search Engine Optimization is called Search Committee Optimization. Doctors try to optimize quality links to their papers to increase their chances of being noticed by search committees of hiring universities. So there is a one to one correspondence between scholastic system and the web. Scholasticism and the Web have the same Li.
Scholasticism is the oldest knowledge system and it is the same as the newest knowledge system. But scholasticism is closed and hermetic and only scholastic doctors can link to papers by other doctors. On the web anyone can publish and link to any other page.
Another thing I observe is that in scholasticism this linking method is a constraint and it is an obstacle to free flow of knowledge. Scholasticism is the oldest walled garden. Linking on the web facilitates free flow of information.
Also note that doctors based their system on authority gained through links. This makes physics an authority based legal system. As long as the currency of physics is authority physics will remain outside of science. Doctors of physics refuse to admit that they are nothing more than practitioners and enforcers of authority gained through linking to each other’s commentary. Instead they claim to be in the research business. Since they enjoy hereditary authority to define science they defined link baiting to be science.
The social structure of scholastic physics defines the content of physics. If the first and only priority of a doctor of physics is to increase her Scholastic PageRank then her career progress is her priority not scientific progress.
The complete analogy between these two systems of organizing and distributing knowledge once again emphasizes the unity of all things. For people indoctrinated with Newtonian atomic materialism it is much harder to see analogies between systems that they cannot reduce to atomic particles.
Scholastic system of organizing knowledge that was invented to hide knowledge from non-doctors turns out to be the same as organizing knowledge for free distribution.
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