Leif OlssonSTOP NAMING STEM TERMS AFTER PEOPLE.
If an alien society totally different from ours who happens to speak our exact language(s) wouldn't give the same discovery the same name, then it isn't a good name. Full stop.
This is an accessibility issue. The would-be best minds in so many fields can't even approach them because rote memorization is a DIFFERENT specialty of intelligence than the field itself calls for.
If an alien society totally different from ours who happens to speak our exact language(s) wouldn't give the same discovery the same name, then it isn't a good name. Full stop.
This is an accessibility issue. The would-be best minds in so many fields can't even approach them because rote memorization is a DIFFERENT specialty of intelligence than the field itself calls for.