That makes sense! Although, conversely, I find it funny when people say me shitposting or swearing or not-dressing-nicely undermines the authority of my physics doctorate, because. Have you met physicists.
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
We shitpost *our own discipline*. We named the unit of cross-sectional area for atomic-level nucleii a "barn." It's not someone's name. It's because they thought it would be funny and stupid to define one of the smallest targets in existence "one barn" in size---
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
It is literally because of the "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" saying.
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
Which led to the joke unit of measurement, the "barn-hubble", which is the total volume of a cylinder with a diameter of one barn and a length of the Hubble length (the distance between the Earth and the farthest observable galaxies, i.e. "the length of the observable universe")
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It's about one liter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
HAH! I didn't know that one! My doctoral dissertation was on using Surface Plasmon Resonance (and some other stuff) to assist in nano-particle self-assembly, mostly using nanospheres. It took EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING not to subtitle my dissertation "Balls are touching"
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
There's a whole list that used to go around on Usenet of "whimsical units of measure", like saying that the most significant life milestone you can celebrate is being one gigasecond old (which is roughly 31.69 years)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Felgraf_Physics
oh hey happy gigasecond to me
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May the next billion seconds be as fruitful as the first
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