Science Squabbling

That's heavy, man.

You don't need to speak Latin, the English word gravity means the same.

Seriously?

Yep, look it up if you don't believe me. Using gravitas where gravity would do (in the sense of seriousness or dignity of manner or speech) is just pretentious, and I know whereof I speak :-)

Nope. :)

(a) I wasn't writing Latin, but English, in which 'gravitas' is a loan word just like 'gravity'. That they're both derived from the Latin word 'gravitas' despite sounding slightly different doesn't change that.
(b) 'Gravity' in English has multiple meanings, whereas 'gravitas' has only the one (and that's the one I intended).
(c) 'Gravity' even in the one meaning related to that of 'gravitas' has a subtly different meaning, which as usual in English is largely demarcated through different usage (and the fact that with words that have multiple meanings it is often the case that some of those meanings become dominant, which often affects the usage of the word in other meanings).
(d) Using 'gravitas' also makes the link to its Roman origin clearer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitas

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we were all just nitpicking.

ftfy
#nitpicking

In a General Relativistic view of the universe. Gravity is not a force. It is an effect.

But, I would not be surprised if M-Theory or ita successor ends up saying the same thing about the other three forces (electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) in which case, these "effects" and "forces" become a semantic non-distinction.

there is a story breaking about a new larger unknown particle found at the hadron collider

allegedly will open up a whole new realm of physics

gravitational waves could be old hat in a month or two and their nobel prize yanked away

there is a story breaking about a new larger unknown particle found at the hadron collider

Could they finally have found hippynium?

Then again, as that will clearly have to be the fattest particle in the universe, perhaps it's some time off yet.

Larger than what?

we'll lets just say you'll need your reading glasses to see it

larger than the higgs but smaller than a family saloon

#iamnotascientist

Where did that come from? Source please... All I can find are the first two paras of a story in the New Scientist, stoopid paywalls...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2015/dec/16/end-of-year-event-at-cern

there is a story breaking about a new larger unknown particle found at the hadron collider
allegedly will open up a whole new realm of physics
gravitational waves could be old hat in a month or two and their nobel prize yanked away

Er... I don't think so...

Not according to that article anyway...

#iamanexscientist #thebandthatis #lel

hippynium?

Hippynium is the densest element.

Hippytron is the heaviest fundamental particle.

Hippytron

Is he going to be wearing this skinsuit?

the heaviest fundamental particle.

The hyppion is not fundamental, it's made from hundreds of pie mesons.

This is a massive discovery.

The world would be a better place if major science capital investments, such as ships, were all named by the kidz, but you know it's not going to happen.

BBC Newsround - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35856560

The world would be a better place if major science capital investments were all named by the kidz

https://xkcd.com/1133/

ah xkcd

big news at the large hadron

new particle discovered inside the accelerator , one of the less weasily identified particles
for some reason they're shutting it down after finding the particle, that's stoataly crazy, you'd mink they'd want to keep it running to back up some results, ah well if they ferret around they'd find the problem and get it sorted

-5/7

Must try harder...

Can anyone explain how/why (why probably being the most useful) gamma phase iron and alpha phase iron change in their structures (FCC to BCC) due to temperature changes.

Magnets.