Posted by Sunny Kalara in Physics Talk | 13 Comments
Collective Nouns for Physicists : A current of physicist, A knot of physicists
The 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.
Talk Like a Physicist
A collection of physicists shall henceforth be known as a scalar of physicists.
An integral of Physicists.
A collective oscillation of physicists.
A distribution of physicists.
Surly it’s got to be an ensemble of physicists.
a membrane of physicists
a simetry of physicists
a syncronicity of physicist
A TOE of physicists, a spectrum of physicists, a phalanx of physicists…an array of physicists, a subset of physicists…
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.)
a mole of physicists.
A mass of physicists.
I agree with the scalar of physicists. But if a bunch of them are working on a research project, hence having a goal, direction, they are a physicists vector field, for to each part of the project is associated a physicist; if the project is too complex or multi purposes maybe, then they are a physicists tensor field, working much more tenser.
But an important question is whether physicists are conservative; is the amount of physicists in the universe always constant? If yes, are they conservative? I don’t think so.
a superconductive state of physicists (however Andy P has the best: ensemble)
A force of Physicists