Re:The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed
by pdonis on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:23AM
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> I would say this is being much more picky about the language than most people in the field tend to be.
Perhaps, but I think that when communicating with the public (as opposed to communicating with other physicists), "a new kind of magnetism" suggests something that isn't explained by our current theories, not just something that our existing theories predict but hadn't been observed before.
Perhaps, but I think that when communicating with the public (as opposed to communicating with other physicists), "a new kind of magnetism" suggests something that isn't explained by our current theories, not just something that our existing theories predict but hadn't been observed before.