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I think I’m ill suited to social media, because of my unwillingness to argue at length with things I think are probably not true but of which I don’t have encyclopaedic knowledge.

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in reply to Alexandra Lanes

I replied to one of your toots earlier and deleted my reply for this reason. I realised I'd accidentally said "relativistic effects" (which affect *electrons* of big atoms) instead of "non-spherical effects" (which affect *nuclei* of big atoms) and suddenly realised someone who could plausibly make such a mistake clearly doesn't know what they're on about, and what was I playing at, there's probably an actual nuclear physicist on your TL. So I deleted it. So you're not alone in this! 😀