That's a word that has very different connotations in professional physics research. We understand the process of science pretty well, and are more used to bein

That's a word that has very different connotations in professional physics research. We understand the process of science pretty well, and are more used to being wrong than most people. It's used in the very old sense of "perplexing", not "to make someone feel awkward". 1b, not 1a: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embarrass https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embarrass