So, I learned
here that today is "Talk like a physicist day."
Talk Like A Physicist | Talk Like A Physicist 3.14
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Just for today, think of everything related to light in terms of photons. When you see light, think of all the photons coming to you. When you see red rose, think of all the different kinds of photons going to the rose and only the specific kind (the red wavelength one) coming back to you.
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He went on to offer some help.
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If anyone needs some pointers:
Use “canonical” when you mean “usual” or “standard.” As in, “the canonical example of talking like a physicist is to use the word ‘canonical.’”
Use “orthogonal” to refer to things that are mutually-exclusive or can’t coincide. “We keep playing phone tag — I think our schedules must be orthogonal”
“About” becomes “to a first-order approximation”
Things are not difficult, they are “non-trivial”
Large discrepancies are “orders of magnitude apart”
Refer to coordinates and coordinate systems. “I got shafted” becomes “I took one up the z-axis
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