BLOG POST: Large Hadron Collider - a qualified success?
Martin Fenner
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:47 UTC
We have had a lot of news about the Large Hadron Collider today. Liz Wager has a different perspective on this important science event. In a blog post (Liz Wager on the Large Hadron Collider – a qualified success?) she writes about the use of qualifying adjectives in scientific papers, specifically about the subtle differences between big and large.
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Maybe her next post will be about “fewer” and “more”.
There is often a tendency in scientific papers for the authors to use more than one qualifying adjective per noun, when it is not only unnecessary but distracts from the clarity. -
Martin, on a separate note your first link turns out to be to the dreaded Technorati. I clicked it before I realised and after a long wait got the usual message:
“Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again.
We’re currently experiencing backend issues and are working to resolve them as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.”Here’s a link to the Nature news special on the LHC which I trust will be more reliable….here’s hoping!
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Maxine, I didn’t know what link I should use for the LHC. There were so many blog posts about it that I used this (now broken) technorati. I’m looking forward to Nature Blogs.
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I know what you mean, Martin, I am LHC’d out! Nature Blogs will be great for this kind of thing, I agree.
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