Sean Barrett wrote:
actionforum@comcast.net stated for the record:
... all published work is at the bleeding edge of the field.
I suspect that our salvation lies in that phrase. I doubt that the grad student exercise that you are suggesting would be hard to include can't be found somewhere in print -- in physics, frex, we have the Feynmann Lecture Series.
Yes. Or the expert can refer to the standard textbook they have several of ... or wrote. (If they want to avoid referring to their own work, they can note it on talk for another to put on the page.)
I remain utterly unconvinced of this alleged impossibility of reference.
- d.