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That's one crazy picture. Perfectly sums up the mad scientist portray. Can we have a normal discovery that's not super-something? superconductor, superchemisty
by keyle 3y ago
That's one crazy picture. Perfectly sums up the mad scientist portray.
Can we have a normal discovery that's not super-something? superconductor, superchemisty... Because if everything is super in 2023, what will we have left in 2040?
- staunton 3y agoMaybe Hyper. Hyperloop, hyperplane... Maybe Mega? That way it's more clear what's next.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoThe real question is ultra before or after hyper?
- nine_k 3y agoUltra and hyper mean basically the same (over, beyond), but since Greek culture flourished before Roman culture, I'd say that hyper should come before ultra. (And do you think that coming up with all this kilo / mega / giga / tera / peta / exa set of prefixes, and deciding their order, was easy?)
- tremon 3y agoUltra and hyper mean basically the same So does super, which is the direct Latin cognate of hyper. So ultra > super > hyper? I would suggest the opposite, as in modern usage, the Greek words "feel" larger than the Latin ones, perhaps because they look less familiar.
- stonemetal12 3y agoBetween superman and supersonic planes, super feels common and slightly old fashioned. To me "super" feels the least superior of the three.
- twic 3y agoWe've already established that hypersonic > supersonic. I think a hypermarket is bigger than a supermarket. In protein structure, a hyperfamily is bigger than a superfamily. I've never heard of an ultrasonic aeroplane, an ultramarket, or an ultrafamily. So those must be bigger yet?
- nine_k 3y agoThey seem to refer to different domains. Supersonic is about the speed of sound, and ultrasonic is about the frequency. Superior is about being higher / better, and ulterior is about being a next step :)
- petemir 3y ago> Maybe Mega? That way it's more clear what's next. But we would have to start with kilo first.
- BizarroLand 3y agoMeta- would be my guess. Metacapacitor, metachemistry, metaconductor... It works.
- bick_nyers 3y agoOnly if you subscribe to Super-Science Plus.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoin 2040 we will finally have Superconducting Super Collider
- mort96 3y agoWhich will finally discover supersymmetric particles!
- BizarroLand 3y agoThrough the power of ultrachemistry
- dmichulke 3y agoWhat did you expect of homo sapiens sapiens?
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI like to think we've already discovered all the "average" things like... average conductors.
- BasedAnon 3y agoWell after supersonic you get hypersonic, so hyperconductors and hyperchemistry
- twic 3y agoOr we take a step back to turboconductors.
- kzrdude 3y agoDoesn't look like mad scientist to me. More like stereotypical advanced hard science
- dtgriscom 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSO2cz2ozQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSO2cz2ozQ