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I think the default mass of a particle should be mass and not atomic_mass.
First, this does not create any ambiguities: The prefix atomic_ is to emphasize it is the mass of an atom. If the particle of which we are getting the mass is an atom then that information is already encoded in the type of the particle object. In other words, mass(x::Atom) already encodes all the information, whereas atomic_mass(x::Atom) duplicates it.
Secondly, it will generalize the terminology to other particles that are not necessarily atoms.
One could introduce mass side by side with atomic_mass or it could entirely replace atomic_mass.
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I think the default mass of a particle should be
mass
and notatomic_mass
.First, this does not create any ambiguities: The prefix
atomic_
is to emphasize it is the mass of an atom. If the particle of which we are getting the mass is an atom then that information is already encoded in the type of the particle object. In other words,mass(x::Atom)
already encodes all the information, whereasatomic_mass(x::Atom)
duplicates it.Secondly, it will generalize the terminology to other particles that are not necessarily atoms.
One could introduce
mass
side by side withatomic_mass
or it could entirely replaceatomic_mass
.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: