[MD] Doug Renselle & Language

[Magnus Berg]

> [Krimel]
> My personal preference is to rely on common usages for common terms. In the
> spirit of being able to explain complex ideas to children. Furthermore I
> thing the use of specialized language just tends to obscure rather than
> highlight our meanings. Further furthermore I don't think the MoQ is
> complicated enough to warrant a specialized vocabulary.

Ok, we simply disagree here. I don't think the terms, as we use them in 
the MoQ, *are* common. And I don't think the main purpose is to be able 
to explain it to children. And I think specialized language make things 
much easier to discuss and make progress within the field at hand. And I 
*do* think the MoQ is quite complex enough to make it worth while to 
keep discussing it for 13 years.

> [Krimel]
> Actually I meant that as a pun on Doug's creation of quantum speak. But I
> think it also means a jump from one electron shell to the next without
> passing through the intervening space. These seems an odd sort of "atoms and
> void" effect that contributes to quantum weirdness. For your purposes that
> jump is a kind of absolutely discrete boundary line but even there what you
> have is an electron "cloud".

What do you mean by electron "cloud"?

	Magnus