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xkcd #3155: Physics Paths

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If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like it's all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.

Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If any paper contains these misspellings of Feynman, Einstein or Hawking I would consider them at best sloppy writers.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair they're physicists, not English majors

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but misspelling historically significant names is a pretty bad sign for any flavor of science really.

I'm pretty sure Brits would want to stone me if I called that apple guy Newdon.

It's just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.