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Thanks for the explanation. I think the italis is cool and fresh. hmmm, really interesting how you feel about the names. It sounds like that is super annoying. I never thought about how naming would affect people invested in the names like this. I don't think I need to defend it, so I'm not trying to here, just sharing that for me, beamsplitter sounds like such a cool word, as if a beam were a physical thing like a r…
Let me apologize for my complaints. It didn't occur to me that these names might be used out of admiration for a field. I've also have to admit that physics needs relatively few new names in general which would make picking one a lot easier. There are also naming patterns as well, e.g. for superpartners (new articles in supersymmetry are either prefixed with S- or suffixed with -ion [0] in a predictable way). [0] htt…
technically tho rotation can be thought of as including multiplication and xor. but also not. so I don't know.