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Collective Nouns for Physicists : A current of physicist, A knot of physicists

May 16th, 2009 Posted in Physics Talk

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ImageThe Vocabulary column in NY Times had an interesting question:

This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to submit novel nouns of assemblage for modern phenomena. A bucket of Wiis? A swamp of blogs? A murder of crowds?

 

So what would you call a crowd of physicists? Here are my suggestions:

 

A quantum of physicists

A current of physicists

A plasma of physicists

A horizon of physicists

A resistance of Physicists

An einstien of physicists / A bohr of physicists / A hawking of physicists

An inertia of physicists

A sigma of physicists

 

Of course, a crowd of string theorists will be called:

A string of Physicists

A knot of Physicists

A manifold of Physicists

A dimension of physicists

 

I am sure you can come up with something better. Leave a note in the comment.

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8 Responses to “Collective Nouns for Physicists : A current of physicist, A knot of physicists”

  1. Benjamin Says:

    A collection of physicists shall henceforth be known as a scalar of physicists.


  2. Shinjin Says:

    An integral of Physicists.


  3. Nerdy Shirts Gal Says:

    A collective oscillation of physicists.

    A distribution of physicists.


  4. AndyP Says:

    Surly it’s got to be an ensemble of physicists.


  5. flavio Says:

    a membrane of physicists
    a simetry of physicists
    a syncronicity of physicist


  6. Bix Says:

    A TOE of physicists, a spectrum of physicists, a phalanx of physicists…an array of physicists, a subset of physicists…


  7. Marylin Says:

    it can be “beam of physicists”
    light amplification of stimulated emission of physicists…
    i´m sorry , that was bad..:-P
    a molecule of physicists…
    a variation of physicists( ?P,if you prefer.)


  8. lgsilveira Says:

    a mole of physicists.


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