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Embiggen, a perfectly cromulent word

Embiggen, the fauxcabulary word created for an episode of The Simpsons, has found its way into string theory. Here's the usage from a recently published paper on Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking:

Embiggen

Here's the original quote from The Simpsons episode, Lisa the Iconoclast:

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

The uses are probably not related, but you never know.

By Jason Kottke    Jun 4, 2007 at 09:35 am    language   physics   science   string theory   The Simpsons   TV

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