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>The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals. Physicists are blessed! Some fields are polluted with
by Qem 4y ago
>The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.
Physicists are blessed! Some fields are polluted with proper name derived jargon. Then learning anything is comparable to learn the phone book by rote. It sucks!
- agys 4y agoBut what about the units…?
- gradschoolfail 4y agoI personally like to define Tesla in terms of the fine structure constant..
- Retric 4y agoUnits are arbitrary, particles aren’t. Newton might look foundational as 1 N = 1 kg * m/s^2, but if the kilogram had been defined as 1% smaller or the meter larger then so presumably would the Newton.
- popcube 4y agobut I like this, everyone fighting enough for human/science will be recorded and remember as long as we can
- rocqua 4y agoSometimes this frustrates me immensely in Mathematics.
- toxik 4y agoPhysics is absolutely crammed with person names, though. Maxwell’s equations, Newtown’s laws, Boltzmann distributions, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Einstein’s summation convention, Green’s formula, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, etc etc etc. Not that I think it’s a problem.
- patrick451 4y agoEven if this were true (see, Newton's laws, Lagrangians and on and on), it's an odd claim that memorizing "quark" is any easier than remembering what a Hamiltonian is. Not to mention that memorizing jargon is a triviality barely worthy of footnote compared to actually learning the field.