{"id":834,"date":"2008-09-25T03:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=834"},"modified":"2008-09-25T03:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T08:45:51","slug":"define-your-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/834","title":{"rendered":"Define Your Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s quite a bit of physics\/science terminology that is defined in a way that doesn&#8217;t jibe (or is essentially opposite) of the everyday use of the word, like <em>coincidence<\/em>.  But even within science, different disciplines will interpret terms differently, because of the conventions and anticipated results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/bandwidth_and_community_expect.php\">Bandwidth and Community Expectations<\/a> over at Uncertain Principles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hether a femtosecond laser is a single-frequency source or a broad-band source really depends on what the expectations of your particular research community are. By the standards of chemistry, it&#8217;s incredibly narrow, but for laser spectroscopy types, it&#8217;s comically broad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more.  Typically, to a physicist, the <em>Gamma ray<\/em> portion of the spectrum is comprised of photons that comes from nuclear interactions and <em>X-rays<\/em> come from atomic interactions, while astronomers tend to use an arbitrary cutoff of 1 MeV to distinguish these from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s quite a bit of physics\/science terminology that is defined in a way that doesn&#8217;t jibe (or is essentially opposite) of the everyday use of the word, like coincidence. But even within science, different disciplines will interpret terms differently, because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35,39],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-other-science","category-physics","tag-science-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}