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I was given the impression by my professors that it was a purposeful move, maybe it was just in teaching and not research. I'll defer to you, the actual particl
by reedf1 6y ago
I was given the impression by my professors that it was a purposeful move, maybe it was just in teaching and not research. I'll defer to you, the actual particle physicist.
- goldenkey 6y agoHow can something you wear so light on your sleeve cause you such angst that it "grinds your gears." Though you may have resigned in this tumult, I believe you still need to resolve something far deeper in your perspective on knowledge with regard to yourself and others.
- minitoar 6y agoThis may just be a language subtlety. I’ve frequently heard “grinds my gears” used as a synonym for “a pet peeve of mine”.
- reedf1 6y agoMake no mistake, I think they should teach the b-quark as "bottom quark" to the general public and students. What particle physicist actually choose to use should be done at their own whimsy. I appreciate your diagnosis though, always feel I could be a bit more introspective.
- soulofmischief 6y agoSounds like you got triggered as well into making a comment? Maybe it's best to give OP the benefit of the doubt.
- chriswarbo 6y ago> How can something you wear so light on your sleeve cause you such angst that it "grinds your gears." They revised their perspective in light of new information. That seems preferable to not revising their perspective ('wearing it heavy on their sleeve'?).
- Method5440 6y agoI’d also heard something like this during my physics education - you’re not alone apparently. One name was apparently more ‘respectable’ than the other. Lol
- patcon 6y agoheh there's a deep irony here, in a story about "how science communicators [supposedly] ditched the term favoured for capturing the public imagination, in order to instead favour a more descriptive factual term"... ...of which the story itself is an overly neat simplification that has spread by better capturing the imagination of descriptive-minded physics students, in the teachers' own science communicating :)
- cabaalis 6y agoAn example of how the educators drive the narrative for the future.