Comments on: How to talk like a Physicist : Talk Like a Physicist Day march 14, 2009

By: Cherries, Inc. » Pi Day, Talk-Like-A-Physicist Day, and Urubuntu

Cherries, Inc. » Pi Day, Talk-Like-A-Physicist Day, and Urubuntu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:10:51 +0000

[...] known is that it is also Talk-Like-A-Physicist Day. Here’s how you can sound like a [...]

By: Casper Gielen

Casper Gielen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:30:57 +0000

“more optimal”.
“I think I found a more optimal solution for this problem”.

By: David Berman

David Berman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:06:05 +0000

How about the word, “modulo” meaning “provided” or “up to” well sort of.
For example:
“Are you coming out on Saturday night?”
“Yes modulo the car being fixed”.
or
“How are you?”
“Fine, modulo the cast on my leg”

It does make sense when you know modular arithmetic.
Gosh this is so geeky.

By: Pi Day! at Asymptotia

Pi Day! at Asymptotia — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:27:29 +0000

[...] can study how physicists are supposed to talk – no, no, not really! – for Talk Like a Physicist Day here. Ok, although I somewhat resist going too far with the notion that we are abnormal, my concession [...]

By: emme

emme — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:53:03 +0000

Mst of the dictionary is realistic, but…
few self respecting physicist would ever use the words “God Particle”. That’s not science, it’s just a good publicity stunt to get the attention of newspapers.
and the “other rules” are not even funny, we like to think out of the box, not just being pedantic (as in your examples)

Cheers,

emme

By: shy

shy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:22:34 +0000

the definition for “orthogonal” isn’t quite right. I would say it’s more like two things are that don’t depend one with the other.