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The issue here is whether or not you are talking about something concrete or abstract and in current physics there's a lot of concepts that are being treated as if they are objects.
It's as if you were reading a scientific paper where meteors are losing materials due to rocks breathing or birds flying into certain directions due to winds howling.
Winds don't howl, rocks don't breathe.
Poetry does not help one understand the fundamentals of how physics work.
And I argue that this kind of fallacy is rampant throughout the physics community.
I (and some others similarly) suggest that there should be a systemic rules to prevent that from happening.
Here's my proposal: