/sci/ - Science & Math

Was he right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6LYuli7VU

>mathematicians slacking
>physicists to the rescue
>everything mathematically useful has come from physics

>computer scientists are scientifically illiterate
>cant handle scientific computing
>physicists to the rescue
>takeover entire branch of numerical computing
>invent every new useful language and constantly innovating them

is there anything physicists cant do?

>>9513403
Phys+math bs here, in grad school for phys specializing in atomic/nuclear/subnuclear. I chose physics because I have ideas for where nuclear research should go, I like understanding the universe/reality and I wanted to challenge myself.

Agree about the structure being bad. Its bc physics has turned into an engineering field for a lot of schools. Its less about abstract thinking, creativity, problem solving and more about grades, memorization of a lot of knowledge and getting a job in private industry.

It could be better though. It should be taught in order of scientific experiments instead of by concept. Unfortunately that would take a while, longer than physics undergrads have.

Math on its own isnt employable. My uni makes math majors double major in a field like stats or econ or chem or something. With physics, you can get a job in almost any scientific/engineering field

So I'v decided I want to shape the field of physics and mathematics.

What fields and particular ideas are currently hot?

Is it pure mathematics?

I'm being entirely serious btw, with a slight tinge or irony and self satire but I do seriously wish to become a god in the field, please tell me what field it is

>>7352555
>>7352278
Also, I like Feynman because of his neat diagrams.

You really should do your own fucking homework though.

>>7342281
>>you can't manage your time to fit your intellectual interests in your spare time like everyone else

>not tailoring your career around your intelligence
>being this much of a plebeian

>>6917806
Hi Anon

>Having never heard of Richard P. Feynman

plebs

>>5664198
Oh I think you know.

>>5634401
I think I remember seeing that video.

>>5555936
you don't even need to set that up as a joke Feynman did that himself.

>>5552394
I'll put your nam fellow, good sir.

>>5228289
>Relativity *always* works.

Sorry, I didnt hear you

>>4959952
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMX_0jDsrw
>psychology
>science
thats cute

Richard Feynman:

Light doesn't travel in straight lines.

Wut?

>>3788970
Adam Smith said "The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low; "

>mfw even adam smith understood the importance of high wages

>>3586458

>mfw units of power are given for a potential difference.

>>3578052

>mfw

>>3573155
>>3573155

Circumference = 2*pi*Radius = pi*Diameter

>mfw this entire thread

>>3505309
>>3505322

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

"The one-electron universe hypothesis, commonly associated with Richard Feynman when he mentioned it in his Nobel lecture, postulates that there exists only a single electron in the universe, propagating through space and time in such a way as to appear in many places simultaneously."

Being a second year physics undergrad, this seems pretty implausible, but sounds bad as fuck. Thoughts on this, /sci/?

This thread makes Feynman smile arrogantly at all your buffoonery.

>>3396917
>>3396917