lhexa ([personal profile] lhexa) wrote2009-06-11 05:18 pm

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A small observation from a meeting of two groups: the theoreticians called the laser probe pulse "it", while the experimentalists used the pronoun "he".

[identity profile] regek.livejournal.com 2009-06-12 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Are the experimentalists German? ;-)

[identity profile] lhexa.livejournal.com 2009-06-13 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
No, but half the theoreticians are Russian. :P

Oddly, earlier today I attended a seminar by a German physicist whose purpose was to convey his sense of the field. I got to hear a thick Texan accent done in a thick German accent, as well as multiple Hitler anecdotes.