Comments on: For Physicists who do not think they talk like a Physicist

By: My Silly Life » Blog Archive » Are YOU ready?

My Silly Life » Blog Archive » Are YOU ready? — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:21:54 +0000

[...] On Friday, everyone can talk like a physicist. Not sure how to do that? Check out the FAQ on the Talk Like a Physicist blog. And for those of you physicists who do not think you talk like a physicist (like me), rest assured, you do. [...]

By: kamran

kamran — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:48:05 +0000

well! abt me.i have not much penetration in physics but im taking it since 2004.. after reading ur article i dnt think dat im a linear physicist. there must be some sort of uncertainety in me as well. oh! im not joking really.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:11:09 +0000

Let’s see, how about, “when I saw this sight I laughed so hard my wavefunction collapsed.”

By: Guess Who

Guess Who — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:13:22 +0000

Sunny Kalara:”Next time when you are talking to a non-physicist, you will use words that only physicists use, words like “canonical variables” and words like “non-trivial” instead of saying difficult.”

O.K., I will try:

and I am married to a physicist —- perfectly non-trivial!

Now, what do you mean “canonical variables”? Conjugality? Is it valid for BE statistics only or for FD also?

By: Sunny Kalara

Sunny Kalara — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:13:07 +0000

No, no, these were all good things; especially the part about marrying a physicist. I even organized a conference with Stephan Hawkings, it was all good. I ruined it all by becoming an attorney!

My physicist wife is a Hedge fund manager now.

And we both take great offense when somebody refers to us as “ex-physicists”; first of all, we are as active a physicist as many of the people in the cold classrooms of ivy league colleges and secondly, there is NO such thing as “ex-physicist”. Once a physicist, always a physicist.

By: Guess Who

Guess Who — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:28:01 +0000

I spent full time doing physics for more than 10 years, —- bad

wrote 30+ papers, —- even worse

edited a book on blackholes and wormholes, —- terrible

and I am married to a physicist. —- perfect catastrophe.

By: G.Subbaro

G.Subbaro — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:39:53 +0000

Nicely put. I know I talk like a physicists because my non-physicist MBA wife points it out to me all the time.

Another thing, I use non-xxxx a lot, like here, non-physicist, non-trivil, non-standard etc, Anybody else?