[Taxacom] International Commission on Subatomic ParticleNomenclature?

[Anthony Pigott]

Certainly Physics deals with very small objects (perhaps not organisms) but
also with some rather larger ones, planets, stars, the Universe...

Best wishes

Anthony


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ParticleNomenclature?

Indeed.
 
But A. N. Whitehead stated a profound truth with his comment that  physics 
is the study of small organisms and biology the study of larger  organisms. 
 
Robin
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/1/2011 4:13:49 P.M. GMT Daylight Time,  
peter.stevens at mobot.org writes:

This  kind ofusgae persited certainly up to 10 years ago, and I presume 
still  persists.  I picked up similar quotes in "Science", "Nature" and the

"International Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science", or
whatever 
 is is called; natural history also sometimes has very negative  
connotations.

P.


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'By the 1980s physicists  were drowning in a sea of subatomic
particles. Every time they smashed an  atom apart with powerful
particle accelerators, they found scores of new  particles spitting
out.  It was so frustrating that J. Robert  Oppenheimer declared that
the Nobel Prize in Physics should go to the  physicist who did \not/
discover a new particle that year. (Enrico Fermi,  horrified at the
proliferation of subatomic particles with Greek sounding  names, said,
"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would  have
become a botanist.")'
Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible",  Doubleday, 2008., p.
234-235, Chapter 13 ("Parallel Universes", section on  String Theory

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