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Which Physicist Are You?

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Posted on: April 3, 2009 11:49 AM, by Dave Bacon

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Apparently I am the kind of physicist who likes proper spelling and proper capitalization, and who thus, will not take a quiz with bad spelling. Which physicist is that? Gell-Mann?

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Yeah, the "Einstein" result just popped into my feed, and it made me cry a little inside.

Posted by: Ben Lillie | April 3, 2009 12:27 PM

Which physicists is that?

What's the rule that says that any Internet post complaining about bad spelling has to have a typo or spelling error?

On topic: It reminds me of the story of how Einstein fended off one woman's advances. She pointed out that a child with his brains and her looks would naturally go far. He supposedly replied, "But what if the child has your brains and my looks?"

Posted by: Eric Lund | April 3, 2009 12:47 PM

You must have read the RSS feed. That error was up there for exactly 15 seconds :)

Posted by: Dave Bacon | April 3, 2009 12:50 PM

Don't be silly. Every physicist at Caltech knew that Gell-Mann named the quark to prove that he'd read all of James Joyce and the others had not. No, wait a minute. That supports your hypothesis. James Joyce is roughly equal to Shakespeare in the number of distinct words used in the corpus of their published oeuvre.

Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | April 3, 2009 1:41 PM

> James Joyce is roughly equal to Shakespeare in the number of
> distinct words used in the corpus of their published oeuvre.

I suspect Joyce may have the edge, but then he took some liberties with the language.

I took the quiz for the hell of it and was told I am "Isaac Newton." I am disappointed. I had hoped to be "Dave Bacon."

Oh, and the guy who made the quiz does not appear to be a native English speaker and that may explain things a bit.

Posted by: Ian Durham | April 3, 2009 3:01 PM

I must be stuck on a CTC. I still get Which physicists is that? Gell-Mann?

Posted by: David | April 3, 2009 3:02 PM

Strange works for me. Oh, maybe you are looking at the html address? That's still messed up.

Posted by: Dave Bacon | April 3, 2009 3:05 PM

Oh *that* typo. Removes egg from face.

Posted by: Dave Bacon | April 3, 2009 3:12 PM