{"id":1370,"date":"2011-06-22T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2011-06-22T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:56:05","slug":"twisted-language-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/06\/22\/twisted-language-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Language in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the discussion in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumdiaries.org\/2011\/06\/19\/helicity-chirality-mass-and-the-higgs\/\">Quantum Diaries<\/a>, i<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;\">t seems that helicity is a property of motion and chirality a property of shape (where, in the case of an elementary particle, this might be represented by something like the shape of a level surface of its wave function).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;\"> The language chosen by physicists is unfortunate as a helix is an object with fixed chirality but the chirality of the path of a \u201chelical\u201d motion depends on the relative motion of the medium in which it is traced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the discussion in\u00a0Quantum Diaries, it seems that helicity is a property of motion and chirality a property of shape (where, in the case of an elementary particle, this might be represented by something like the shape of a level &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/06\/22\/twisted-language-in-physics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}