{"id":455,"date":"2006-08-03T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/03\/does-this-happen-to-anybody-el\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T10:28:40","slug":"does-this-happen-to-anybody-el","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/03\/does-this-happen-to-anybody-el\/","title":{"rendered":"Does This Happen to Anybody Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quantum Pontiff Dave Bacon preaches the Word<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One thing that bugs the heck out of me, is when I hear particle physicists talk about their field as if it is all of physics. I have a great love of particle physics, so I’m not dissing the field at all, nor arguing that it isn’t more fundamental, but it rubs me the wrong way to disregard all of the rest of physics that is currently going on. This especially irritates me since it gives students the wrong impression that the only exciting physics is in particle physics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can I get an “Amen!”?<\/p>\n

I sometimes wonder if people in other disciplines have the same problem. Not being dissed by particle physicists– everybody gets that– but some sub-field within the discipline acting as if it’s the only interesting thing going on. Do developmental biologists strut around bio meetings as if they’re the only ones doing worthwhile work? Do medical chemists divide chemistry into “drug development” and “stamp collecting?”<\/p>\n

Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n

(The quoted passage is a humorous prelude to a more serious point, which I’ll take up in a later post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quantum Pontiff Dave Bacon preaches the Word: One thing that bugs the heck out of me, is when I hear particle physicists talk about their field as if it is all of physics. I have a great love of particle physics, so I’m not dissing the field at all, nor arguing that it isn’t more… Continue reading Does This Happen to Anybody Else?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}