Random Twitter silliness

It's funny how the general names given to certain things can sometimes make those things seem much scarier than they really are, e.g. Schwarzchild radius, Cherenkov radiation, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Fermi paradox, Higgs boson, St. Elmo's fire, Schrödinger's cat, etc.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

I mean, granted, some of those things actually are a little freaky if you really stop and consider them, but the names can make them seem even scarier, in a strange way. Or they can make things that are completely innocuous sound sinister or at least more grandiose than they are.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

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— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

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— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

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— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

Or maybe it's just that some people have scary-sounding names? I don't know. I mean, I guess the opposite is true, too. You could call something "the Bob effect," or "the Larry principle," or "the Timmy rule," and no matter how scary they may actually be, it still sounds silly.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

But even then, if you had something called "Chad radiation," or "Cletus waves," or "the Bubba paradox," or "the Goober-Woody effect," it would still sound at least a little bit ominous, regardless of what it actually stands for.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021

Basically, anything like "<name> radiation" or "<name> paradox" is always going to sound a little creepy, no matter what <name> may be and no matter what it's actually referring to.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) July 5, 2021