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Wave Particle Duality (lazysoci.al)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Another classic case of "Scientists are bad at naming things"

Some people will spend their entire lives thinking math is stupid because of imaginary numbers.

Thinking that electrons behave differently when you "look" at them.

Think that radio towers and microwaves cause cancer because they emit radiation

Many of these are failures of the education system and to be fair scientists don't have the power of hindsight. Still it annoys me how inefficient it is having these names