physicists

"...To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An foolish notion:" Yes, everyone has linked the latest, greatest XKCD: So painful, so true. Fortunately the other thing about physicists, is that we have a great sense of humour. And we need it. Steve Hsu has been doing some provocative ruminating along these lines. This of course leads to classification of physicists, there being two types: Type I is smart. Type II is hard working. Type Ib/c is smart and hard working, and therefore really sub-category of Type II while Type Ia is smart but lazy. Type IIn is hard…