An example of metaphor in science scholarship:
"Sometimes, as in the case of the formation of quantum mechanics, this will involve seemingly mutual exclusive concepts – for example, tracks in a cloud chamber can be interpreted either as an ionisation path left by a particle that whizzed by, or as a footprint of the ionisation of an atom."
Perović, Slobodan (2017) Complementarity and quantum tunneling, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.207-222.
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
