Comments on: Fake Style

By: onymous

onymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:42:53 +0000

What a pity, then, that 'dude' was removed.

By: Brad H

Brad H — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:19:30 +0000

Scientific papers could use more “dude”. For instance, we could replace QED with
“Duuuude!”

Also useful as a single word caption for a particularly pretty picture for which you cannot otherwise find a true use.

By: Helioprogenus

Helioprogenus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:04 +0000

Well, we can start by distancing ourselves from all the black/dark references in physics.

For black hole, call it a relativity quagmire
For dark energy, call it universal compensator
For dark matter, perhaps exotic matter with pasties (ok, you can leave the pasties part out of it if you really insist)
As for brown dwarfs, well, d-list stars might be more apt as a name

By: albion

albion — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:15:36 +0000

Sean — I have to confess, the holomorphic line is great.

Pieter — I think I’d reserve “pimped out” for sufficiently flashy and ornate models. SJGR should work for 3-loop calculations or data, in the right context.

I’m pretty sure that “we’d like to thank your sister *and* your mother” is forbidden by APS style rules, but allowed in JHEP.

By: Fermi-Walker Public Transport

Fermi-Walker Public Transport — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:11:33 +0000

Abridged abstracts should be strongly discouraged. Whats the point of witing a very long abstract
that gets cut down in the editorial process. Have seen these in some astronomy journals.

By: Howard Barnum

Howard Barnum — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:22:41 +0000

Whoops, forgot to sign off with “Cheers”.

With me, it doesn’t mean I’m thanking the recipient, it means I’m going to follow the email with a glass of wine. What’s that? No, I don’t mean you’re about to get a glass of wine in your inbox…

Cheers,

Howard

By: Howard Barnum

Howard Barnum — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:18:03 +0000

Sentences of the ilk of “It is widely, but erroneously claimed that…”; “Some authors have maintaned that…”; “It is an apparently intuitive, but erroneous supposition that…” must be immediately followed by one of the form: “I’m looking at you, Blague, Schnortz, and Weasle.”

By: Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:14:19 +0000

“Single author papers are not permitted to use the first person plural, except if the author is actually the Queen of England.”

Phys Rev D actually has that policy. Take a look over there to see how ridiculous that looks. “I find that…..I have computed that….” It’s like reading Facebook.

By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting

Low Math, Meekly Interacting — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:05:13 +0000

Open papers with gratuitous and pedantic references of dubious relevance to obscure Greek philosophers: “According to Hippon of Samos, the universe was created in a water-born conflagration, but we now know from detailed observations of large-scale CMB anisotropies…”

By: Phillip Helbig

Phillip Helbig — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:12:10 +0000

“Currently” can almost always be omitted.