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Nov. 27th, 2013 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnWhen D showed me this cartoon it totally made my day. I actually thought it was mildly humorous before reading the caption, possibly because of occasionally feeling like I take the position of benign neglect towards my own kid (well, I mean, not really, but sometimes I feel like that), but when I read the caption, bwhahahaha.
[For those of you who don't hang out with physicists on a regular basis, the thing that all physicists are taught to do, from our first baby classes, is to neglect small terms in our mathematical expressions; and we are even taught to expand everything in small terms so as to better be able to do this. And we all have as our first instinct to do it all the time, even when we haven't done academic physics for years, and even when the terms are maybe honestly not actually all that small.]
[For those of you who don't hang out with physicists on a regular basis, the thing that all physicists are taught to do, from our first baby classes, is to neglect small terms in our mathematical expressions; and we are even taught to expand everything in small terms so as to better be able to do this. And we all have as our first instinct to do it all the time, even when we haven't done academic physics for years, and even when the terms are maybe honestly not actually all that small.]
