The basic idea behind the Journal of Space Mixing is to help
create and foster a community of research in space mixing theory. In
order to reach this goal, the journal seeks out the most important
contributions from both theoreticians and experimentalists. One of the
overall goals of the journal is to publish both experimental and
theoretical papers. These complement each other as the experiments help
guide the theory and the theory suggests new experiments. This interface
of experiment and theory helps keep the science real.
Many proposed candidates for a "Theory of Everything" (grand
unification models) do not have a strong experimental component. This is
very unfortunate since without experiments to keep the science honest,
these theories tend to wander off into fictitious worlds.
JSM articles are reviewed to make sure that to a high degree of certainty
the science contained in them actually applies to the real world. In
keeping with this basic philosophy, the journal requires publication of
details. Rather than simply reporting results, the journal requires
sufficient detailed publication of experimental setup and procedures and
of theoretical derivations. This serves to more readily expose strengths, weaknesses,
and fundamental assumptions of a method. It also helps others more accurately
reproduce experiments and theoretical derivations.