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This article is not about the academic term 'metamaterial'

There is no single academic source which doesn't define metamaterials as only the 'optic metamaterials'. All existing literature I have encountered during my PhD on the topic would not use the term metamaterial to signify mechanical metamaterials. So if we follow the definitions that are commonly used in academia there shouldn't be an article which contains both optical metamaterials and mechanical metamaterials. Optical metamaterials are called "metamaterials" in academia, while the term mechanical metamaterials has been introduced to talk about non-optical aspects. It therefore makes sense forr the wikipedia article called "metamaterials" to only talk about electromagnetic phenomena.

However, in my honest opinion the term 'metamaterial' should never have been defined in the literature as only pertaining to optics. The fact that there is literature which discusses the concept of mechanical metamaterials presumes that the term 'metamaterials' isn't confined to optics only. One can logically deduce that the term 'metamaterial' should not be confined to optic metamaterials only.

The question is whether Wikipedia should define the term metamaterial in the logical way, or whether it should follow academia. Please discuss.

lets change metamaterial to ?-material

Like: electric-material, electromagnetic-material, optic-material, philosophy-material(materialism), add infimum...sorry forgot my password again...75.82.19.242 (talk) 19:19, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Metamaterial to ?-material

The field of material is to well established and broad-in use everyday-for one article... ...Many Subjects in this field like: electric-material, electromagnetic-material, optic-material, philosophic-material(materialism), add infimum...75.82.19.242 (talk) 19:35, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

citation spam fubar

Version history is full of citation spam, the article needs a major cleanup. 2A02:3100:3E00:2300:C401:77F:3413:B9A9 (talk) 00:13, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]