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by dnautics 4184 days ago
yeah, it is just a broad stroke characterization of the feels of each field. Some types of particle physicists would be probably be reclassified as chemists under my scheme, which they would bristle at, although in all honesty they are inheritors of a long line of tradition that goes through the indisputably chemist lavoisier, berzelius, and curie - more than they are newton or maxwell, planck, or einstein.