On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, MSF wrote:
Although these changes in the naming of things technical are of no great
import, they are particularly galling to someone my age.
...which opens up an opportunity for any of us to appear ancient. "On the
internet, nobody knows that you're ...not emeritus physics faculty from
MIT or caltech or somewhere."
On physics forums everyone thought I must be an ancient retired physics
prof. I once met someone from PHYS-L in person, and they were stunned to
find that I wasn't seventy. (Hmm, lately I'm almost catching up!) Most of
it was accidental, because of our personal habit of writing in the
language of research authors, "High Academician," and never say "I" say
"we." (Just spend man-years reading journals, then just write in
journal-speak. Never claim to be a scientist, only call yourself "part of
the professional community."
But then I started saying Angstroms not nM, and mega-CPS, and micro-micro-
farads. Gauss not Teslas. They'll only take our 1930s-era physics
terminology away, by prying our typewriter from our cold dead fingers!
And if you want to be mistaken as European, then accidentally say
"physician" rather than "physicist." Or say "camera" when you mean to
say "room" (an common Russian mistake.)
Let's go film some footage, then cut some audio tracks to go with!
Speaking of which, here's a copy of my half-hour lecture at the SSE 2024
conference, about three Nikola Tesla secrets which are actually in common
use today.
Replication of three lost Tesla secrets 29:58
https://tinyurl.com/sse2024tesla watch?v=eaju7JfLD_o
You didn't even have to pay the conference fee!
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