Scientific languague is not just descriptive and accurate; it can also be mysterious and beautiful. Just read or listen to “The nature of Space and Time” by Stephen Hawkins and you’ll see what I mean.
You don’t have to know the deep meaning behind the concepts to appreciate the beauty of that specialized language. Just read the following expressions to experience some of that modern poetry:
- Quantum gravity
- Theory of causal dynamical triangulation
- 4 dimensional spacetime manifold
- Virtual blackhole as a quantum fluctuation of spacetime
- Discretionary access control in a heterogeneous distributed database
- Parallel Jacobi algorithms for the algebraic eigenvalue problem
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- chromosomal crossover
- Algebraic lattice
- Chronostratigraphy
- Cathodoluminescence
Now, try to drop “Finite-state automata with recursive-call state transitions” in a conversation…