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Description: by Andrew Walkingshaw
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When you start a university physics course, the first subject you learn is classical mechanics. Mechanics comes in two flavours: statics , matter at rest, and dynamics , matter in motion.
One of the Internet’s preoccupations recently — at least in the parts I frequent, which admittedly probably aren’t that representative — has been the physics, if you like, of data. There’s a lot of writing out there, much of it (like this piece from Tom Armitage ) excellent, about treating data as a material; understanding it as a physical thing with seams, grains, symmetry and cleavage planes. This is true, but I’m beginning to suspect that it’s incomplete. Data’s not solely a static thing. It bounces, usu
lexical.org.uk (andrew walkingshaw)