Hecht

Shadowtalk expletive (commonly Oh Hecht!), often used by scientists to express mock disgust. The common explanation is that an experiment has gone wrong, but in a way which could lead to some kind of success tangential to the actual research. This term is currently under consideration as heretical, as some people consider that people saying it are praying to Hecht as if he were a saint. If the court decides this is true, anyone using it could be refused confession.

Etymology

From the story of Professor Lincoln Hecht, who was attempting to make a more efficient vapour pile design. He had run lab tests of several engine variants, and had cruisers constructed to do 'real world' speed tests on a pre-measured course. On analysing the results, he discovered that on every single run, the vehicles had been both slower than expectations, and had skewed some distance to the right (compared to the ballistic course they were supposed to be following). Although these results were both unexpected and undesirable, they led to Hecht's discovery of the accelerative discontinuity his course had coincidentally included.