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I have indeed often seen the names referred to without the term "nuclear".
by rocqua 6y ago
I have indeed often seen the names referred to without the term "nuclear".
- goatcode 6y agoWeird. This must have changed in the past 10 years or so, since I've been out of college.
- dylan604 6y agoIt's something you never get used to. As you get older, this will just keep happening. We used to put commas before the last item in a list back in like the stone ages when I was in school. My SAT score looked really lame for a bit of time when those suddenly changed.
- goatcode 6y agoI understand the grumpy old person archetype now. I feel like I've been one for a long time, but it's really hitting home over the past decade.
- dukwon 6y agoThis (very important) paper from 1967 calls them "weak interaction" and "strong interaction": https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.1264 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.19... Putting the word "nuclear" in the middle seems to just be done in textbooks and classrooms.
- a9h74j 6y agoThis might be a new variant of: You can tell how old a national lab is by what they study in the "physics" division.