What are the best words of science?

[bp_psy]

Most Eigen+stuff.
Eigenfrequency
EigenKet
Eigendecomposition
Eigenduck.

 

[ryan albery]

'Evaporation' is pretty cool. So is 'chronon'.

An anti-electron seems best termed a positron, but could you call an anti-proton a 'negatron'?

'Oooops': classic! Kinda like an erg... best pronounced 'eerrrgggg'.

 

[DennisN]

Eigenduck.

Now, we can't have such a fun term without a picture to go with it:

 

[Jilang]

What about that fermi surface known as The Third Zone Monster?

 

[Superman1271]

I really like vector, sounds so cool =]

 

[HeLiXe]

lol superman...it actually is pretty cool.

some of my other favorites are
quasar
protoplanetary disk
nuclear and
nebula

oh and antimatter. love that one

 

[bp_psy]

I always found nUcUlar intriguing also.

 

[NATURE.M]

The term 'tensor' has always captivated me.

 

[Curious3141]

Mole
Boson

First makes me think of wind in the willows and second makes me think of a clown.

 

[thankz]

mu , has so many meanings

 

[jbrussell93]

'Phasor' is one of my favorites.
"Today class, we are going to talk about PHASORS."... and suddenly you have the classes attention

 

[Hornbein]

homoscedasticity Leptokurtosis
Entropy
Kruskal-Wallis
relativistic
atavistic
exegesis
hypothesis
eudemonic

 

[KCC2]

Spacetime
Vis viva

 

[ryan albery]

The more poetic words I thought the best: Parallax, Equinox, Neutrino, Quark, Condensate, Migration
Vorticis, and Albedo.

 

[ryan albery]

Re-reading this, Abiogenesis, and Nebula... those are cool science words too.