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I like his suggestion to replace 'Standard Model' with the name 'Core Theory' "The quantum revolution gave this revelation: we’ve finally learned what Matter i
by ianes 12y ago
I like his suggestion to replace 'Standard Model' with the name 'Core Theory'
"The quantum revolution gave this revelation: we’ve finally learned what
Matter is. The necessary equations are part of the theoretical structure
often called the Standard Model. That yawn-inducing name fails to convey
the grandeur of the achievement, and does not serve fundamental physics
well in its popular perception. I’m going to continue my campaign, begun
in The Lightness of Being, to replace it with something more appropriately
awesome:
Standard Model → Core Theory"
- melling 12y agoIs this a joke? Sounds like some bureaucratic decision where you'd create a committee to come up with New Coke. Most people aren't going to care.
- morenoh149 12y agoYou'd be surprised. Yes it must be grounded in soundness but a cool name never hurts.
- tomelders 12y agoI bet the folks who coined the term "global warming" sure wish they'd thought of "climate change" first.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoYou do know the history of those terms and the replacement of one by the other, right?
- evanb 12y agoScience Sparring Society had an interesting (and short) episode on this recently: http://www.acmescience.com/2015/02/sss-14-global-warming-vs-climate-change/ http://www.acmescience.com/2015/02/sss-14-global-warming-vs-...