Why work is force times distance?

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If the unmodified original language was a perfect fit with physics, the principles of physics would have been discovered by primitive mankind the first time a true sentence was formed.

 

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It is not a good answer to simply dismiss the question by saying that's just the way it is, so "get over it." That is not an attitude that respects someone's desire to understand why a certain word is used. "Get over it" is not the attitude that promotes curiosity and digging more deeply into why things are the way they are.

Nobody else in this thread besides you ever said "Get over it". @phinds said "get used to it", meaning that giving ordinary words a specific technical meaning is a very common practice in all fields of science. So any student must get used to the fact that this will happen frequently and learn that in science you need to use the corresponding scientific definition and not the ordinary definition. His comment was instructive (and brief), not dismissive.

Since we are now digressing and having an argument about non-existent slights, it is past time to close this thread.