What's your favorite cool name for a scientific theory or event... like "Occam's Razor" or "Maxwell's Demon"?

[Vacceo]

Deus Ex Machina... god from the machine

Considering Latin a d being this forum related to sound, music bring part of it, you probably love Diabolus in Musica.

 

[ahofer]

Schismogenesis

Good one.

 

[mhardy6647]

so... not a cool name per se, but I was just looking at that "ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot poor execution or bias" thread* and it got me to thinking about bias (the electrical kind) which got me to thinking about electrons... which got me to reflect on Benjamin Franklin's fundamental role in the convention that electrons are carriers of negative charge.
Ol' Poor Richard/Ben had a 50/50 chance of guessing correctly about current/charge -- and he guessed wrong.

Conventional Versus Electron Flow

Explanation of the true direction of electron flow.

www.magcraft.com

I mean -- when we think of polymaths and/or geniuses, folks like Newton and Einstein and da Vinci fairly leap to mind. But ol' Ben was right there with 'em!
I mean, he wrote a treatise on passing gas. Did any of those other guys?

A Letter to a Royal Academy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He would've been a great ASR member (and I am not saying that snarkily!).

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* https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...r-execution-or-bias.59661/page-8#post-2204787

 

[Astoneroad]

"Orwellian Newspeak"... linguistically prophetic currently... the life imitating art paradigm could be argued...

 

[somebodyelse]

I mean -- when we think of polymaths and/or geniuses, folks like Newton and Einstein and da Vinci fairly leap to mind. But ol' Ben was right there with 'em!
I mean, he wrote a treatise on passing gas. Did any of those other guys?

A Letter to a Royal Academy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He might have won an Ig Nobel for that if they'd been around at the time, like the guys who won one for 'Why spaghetti does not break in half', a problem that Feynman spend some time on without success.