[Taxacom] International Commission on Subatomic ParticleNomenclature?

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 10/1/2011 11:08 AM, Peter Stevens wrote:
> This kind of usage persisted 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.

* what, btw, are the positive connotations of particle physics?

fred.
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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
>
> --Bob Morris


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