Amazing Progress Outside the Mainstream
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Amazing Progress Outside the Mainstream |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2018-01-12 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | natural philosophy, history of science |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Amazing Progress Outside the Mainstream" is an article by David de Hilster published on 12 January 2018 on Beyond Mainstream.
De Hilster argues that theoretical science has been advancing steadily outside the institutions, among thousands of researchers over the past century, and that none of it reaches the news or the prize committees. Written as a personal reflection after twenty-five years among those researchers, it is his first public account of that time — he describes himself as the Forrest Gump of natural philosophy, present for a great deal of it.