trying to explain what we do to one's relatives/friends is not the easiest thing to do
I've pretty much given up trying to explain it, so now whenever someone asks me what particle physicists do, I just say "we create nukes and stuff". Usually shuts them up.
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..welcome our new bacterial overlords!
...to change from 'theory' it to The Laws Of Relativity?
trying to explain what we do to one's relatives/friends is not the easiest thing to do I've pretty much given up trying to explain it, so now whenever someone asks me what particle physicists do, I just say "we create nukes and stuff". Usually shuts them up.