[Physics] Orwellian language

[Ilja Schmelzer]

Regarding the doublespeak, I have been able to publish a criticism of
one aspect of the doublespeak in Foundations of Physics.

"Moreover, a naming convention which forces us to name theories which
are local in any physically important sense "non-local" is not only
absurd, but can be even considered as Orwellian."

With a footnote explaining: "To classify the actual convention as
"Orwellian" is justified not only because it requires to name a local
theory non-local. It also shares another important aspect with
newspeak -- it leaves some incorrect thoughts without words to talk
about then: Indeed, the word "local" is the natural word to describe
the class of models considered in this paper, with some much higher
speed of information transfer in a hidden preferred frame, and to
distinguish it from theories with really pathological locality and
causality violations. And this is, indeed, a class of theories which
is the closest thing to anathema in modern physics."

Schmelzer, I.: About a "nonlocal" local model considered by L.
Vervoort, and the necessity to distinguish locality from Einstein
locality, acc. by Foundations of Physics, arXiv:1610.03057

2016-11-10 4:54 GMT+01:00, Doug Marett <dm88dm at gmail.com>:
>     I don't buy your argument that such language in science is acceptable
> because it has become a customary form of scientific discourse, i.e. the
> use of contradictory or oxymoron-ic phraseology  . Rather, I think it is
> better to view such deliberate misuse of the meaning of words in physics as
> a form of doublespeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak, which has
> its origins, in part, in the doublethink of George Orwell's 1984. It is in
> a sense, the "political language" of physics.
> What we are talking about is the  intentional ambiguity in language or to
> actual inversions of meaning (e.g., "I just want you to know that, when we
> talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
> It is summed up by Edward Herman in describing the purpose of doublespeak
>
>  "What is really important in the world of doublespeak is the ability to
> lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the
> ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out
> those that don’t fit an agenda or program."