What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder, Aeon, 2016/08/15
I've described this in talks more often than I can count, so it's nice to have an actual physicist make the point for me: "During a decade of education, we physicists learn more than the tools of the trade; we also learn the walk and talk of the community, shared through countless seminars and conferences, meetings, lectures and papers. After exchanging a few sentences, we can tell if you’re one of us. You can’t fake our community slang any more than you can fake a local accent in a foreign country." Physicists recognize each other. More...