Terence’s Stuff: A Rose… by Terry Speed

In recent years I have found myself increasingly irked by the way in which computer scientists, physicists and others have systematically renamed concepts from our world, either to mystify or appropriate them — or (which is worse?) because they were unaware that we had already invented and named them ourselves.

From the context above, I don’t think physicists want to applaud at the following example from the article:

…, logs of probabilities are potential, Hamiltonian or energy functions.

Yet, I’m sympathetic to his uncomfortable feeling when reading astronomical literature from time to time (my inexperience cannot match his deep insights, though).