/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11228973
what if you forget

>>11228973

relax the owner of Physics know some Biology too it's the proof that you can do it

how do you cope with the feeling of knowing you will never be well educated in your own field? Every scientific discipline has become hyperspecialized to the point of absurdity.

A desire to understand everything reeks of insecurity

>>11228990
sorry wrong answer the Owner of Physics says that human knowledge is still basic and easy to learn it's actually much wrong and needs to be redesigned

I feel you. As a child, I always wanted to become a polymath. A true Renaissance man. I was always curious about many different fields and read obsessively about philosophy, math, physics, history and much more. I graduated best in my entire province and hoped for broadening my horizon at university. Now I’m writing my Master thesis in Mathematical physics and feel like this hyper specific research area is consuming every waking hour of my life. And despite that, I know that I will never achieve mastery in even this narrow field. Neither will I innovate because I’m not creative enough and my mind is inclined towards a broad knowledge base, not a deep one. Sadly, this kind of person is no longer appreciated in our society. I feel like academia today is geared towards producing highly specialized experts in a narrow field, so that they can later function as just another cog in our soulless consumerist society, increasing the profits of our cooperatist overlords. Even among my fellow students there are so many just in it for the money and/or the social prestige. The rest are “Fachidioten”, with no interest in any other field. Where has the ideal of acquiring knowledge for its own sake gone? I become more and more nihilistic by the day. It’s depressing.

>>11228973
After 1000 years the knowledge would have progressed so you would still not know all of it.

>>11228973
>How do you cope with the feeling of knowing there will be always fields you are not well educated on?
As long as you know the basic gestalt on the fields that actually matter, you're golden.

>>11229153
just use your degrees to find a job and be happy playing games and drinking at bars this is the good life (by the Owner of Physics)

work your way into earthscience. Its highly specialized in itself but atleast you get to apply all kind of different fields for the sake of the big picture.

>>11228973
I'm pretty sure I would waste my time here even if I had 1000 more years to live.
Exactly as I've been wasting the last 26 years.

>>11228990
I would rather be insecure than a brainlet.

>>11228990
>A desire to understand everything reeks of insecurity
Only an insecure person would say such a thing