Language matters; if your writing is unnecessarily dense and confusing, your ideas are probably the same, you just don't know it yet.
Language matters; if your writing is unnecessarily dense and confusing, your ideas are probably the same, you just don't know it yet.
"This is not necessarily a detail of relevance, and it is duplicated in the data, but I noticed it and am remarking on it to show that I did not fail to notice this, even if it does not seem to have material importance to this experiment, whose audience should be able to interpret the data for themselves and understand this. However, I have written this to the limit of length and parsable complexity, yet it cannot be said whether I have overstated or understated anything. I am the James Joyce of science, and I justify this part of my value through superficial prolixity."
I blame all those years of 1000-word and 5-paragraph essays.
Before you get too righteous here: you do realize there are a lot of competent physicists for whom English is not a first language right?