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atoms don't touch (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Physics needs more poets who understand physics.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Poetry needs more physicists who understand poetry, too!
In this case we end up with things getting called fun names like "quarks" instead of W- Boson and arid things like that.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Perfect example! Quarks taking their name from finnegans wake! Sure, science is more than poetry, but the poetry of it is pretty important to scientific culture (and therefore to making progress).

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Quarks are forever ruined by the decision to get rid of the truth and beauty quark nomenclature in favor of top and bottom. Iirc it was done because some physicist was afraid of a headline "physicists fail to find truth" when they were trying to prove the existence of the top quark