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Yet another clickbait title by the quantamagazine. I'm afraid these "science popularization" techniques only make it more confusing for the general public. Just

Yet another clickbait title by the quantamagazine. I'm afraid these "science popularization" techniques only make it more confusing for the general public. Just say the exact, scientific word and cut this bs.

renewiltord 1y ago
No-hair theorem is just the name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem
- IAmBroom 1y ago
  Does the Hairy Ball theorem apply to hairless black holes? Asking for a friend...
jleyank 1y ago
If they finds "casual" names for scientific principles annoying, they're going to just LOVE the names for genes. hERG activity is a bad thing that gets drugs taken off the market (cardiac arrhythmia). hERG means "human ether-a-go-go-related gene". Scientists are human, and obviously playful at times. It's not a recent thing. Check out quark names and their associated properties.
- kgwgk 1y ago
  A few examples: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_names https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_na... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_wit...
ordu 1y ago
Yeah. The photo of a hairy astrophysicist claiming that if black holes have hair, it is shorter than 40 km seems like a petty way to spark a public interest.
mr_mitm 1y ago
This is the first time I heard quanta magazine being accused of click bait. They show no ads and don't sell anything. What would be their motivation for using click bait? Click bait used to mean things like "five reasons you always get sick - number three will SHOCK you" or "doctors hate this one weird trick!". The title of this article isn't click bait at all. Black holes having hair or not is almost the technical expression, as evidenced by the "no hair" theorem. Physicists are quirky like that sometimes.

renewiltord 1y ago

No-hair theorem is just the name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem

IAmBroom 1y ago
Does the Hairy Ball theorem apply to hairless black holes? Asking for a friend...

jleyank 1y ago

If they finds "casual" names for scientific principles annoying, they're going to just LOVE the names for genes. hERG activity is a bad thing that gets drugs taken off the market (cardiac arrhythmia). hERG means "human ether-a-go-go-related gene". Scientists are human, and obviously playful at times. It's not a recent thing. Check out quark names and their associated properties.

kgwgk 1y ago
A few examples: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_names https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_na... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_wit...

ordu 1y ago

Yeah. The photo of a hairy astrophysicist claiming that if black holes have hair, it is shorter than 40 km seems like a petty way to spark a public interest.

mr_mitm 1y ago

This is the first time I heard quanta magazine being accused of click bait. They show no ads and don't sell anything. What would be their motivation for using click bait? Click bait used to mean things like "five reasons you always get sick - number three will SHOCK you" or "doctors hate this one weird trick!". The title of this article isn't click bait at all. Black holes having hair or not is almost the technical expression, as evidenced by the "no hair" theorem. Physicists are quirky like that sometimes.