/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15255677
>I'm a physics PhD student who reads philosophy
The height of midwittery

>>15255677
in reality this is impossible since phd students only have time for reading research articles and monographs all day

>>15255677
>Yes, I'm a pseudo how could you tell
Gee willikers, OP, how indeed.

>>15255677
I’m a practicing engineer that only reads the rambling of alcoholic and racist early twentieth century offers.

>>15255677
AUTISM!

>paperbacks
I puked. Why would you ever want to buy mediocre toilet paper quality? If there is no hardcover for a book then its a garbage book not worth to be purchased

>>15255702
POST LIBRARY!

>>15255677
>dress codes
>airports
>small books on topics like history, the bible, and other areas of science

No good. You're lacking direction and are just attacking random topics. This strategy will not lead you to being truly knowledgable about the world but instead will give you uselessly basic knowledge about some things which likely will never help you in your life.

Instead you should pursue something akin to the quadrivium and trivium. (Though of course this is quite outdated)
but the underlying idea is that you need a hiearchy of focus.
Obviously your main focus is physics, but underneath that you must have a secondary focus which takes up the majority of your focus besides physics. And then underneath that you should have a few more focuses and perhaps they have some relation to the secondary focus (for example if it's history, and then you want to learn about music, your music studies should have the goal of strenghtening your history studies)

With this sort of organized way to learning a large number of topics, each new topic you learn about will be easier to learn if the main things you're learning are things like philosophy and history. It will build upon itself.

Furthermore, some topics are better to learn than others. While it's nice to know how airports work, it's much better to learn about history and philosophy or some area of mathematics and science. You will become a more knowledgable person if you learn the big important things, and then it will not matter if you don't know how to navigate an airport, because you will be so smart that you'll just figure it out on the spot

>>15255677
how do you keep cognitive dissonance from knowing advanced physics and reading christian pseudoscientific narrative from killing you instantly?
is it because most of modern physics is basically rabbinical theology?

>>15255677
>Yes I'm a pseud

>>15255719
Maybe he's not trying to be some type of polymath or trying to impress people with knowledge, but just reading things that interests him?

>>15255735
I love how physics haters are always uneducated
what physics did you do? high school level? how many modern experiments have you performed? have you ever observed and measured a natural phenomena on your free time?

>>15255735
>4chan, YES! Crrrush the libs!

>>15255719
thank anon

The issue is that whenever I go into bookstores, I can't help but buy a variety of books.

>>15255749
Kill yourself, OP

Low midwit, at most Msc in europe

>>15255702
Thats retarded, retard. A book better than no book or digital eyeremover "ebook"

>>15255748
>I love how physics haters are always uneducated
I have a master's in chemistry, I know perfectly well how to use a michelson interferometer and the implications of the most famous experiment done with it.
>but academia says
kill yourself midwit, gurgle down some hydrofluoric acid and die together with your cult

>>15255790
your agression shows low iq, I'm sorry to say

>>15255802
IQ is pseudoscience

>>15255802
>aggression means low IQ in 100% of situations
kek, definitely a midwit

>>15255702
it's cheaper

>>15255790
>master's
The most prideful yet unfulfilled degree. Smart enough to know the edge exists, but having never looked over, not know there is a whole 'nother one after that...

Literal Dunning Kruger position.

>...and no, I'm not saying this because of you, this is a long standing issue with me with "pretty much degrees" while never having done actual, novel, research in the field.
Make that blue meth the world craves or stop telling people you have...that...'thing'.

>>15255790
>chemistry
isn't that the science where nobody knows why shit actually reacts and all you really do is just mixing up shit to make soap and balance out electrons so it looks like you are doing science?

>>15255843
No.

>>15255837
US just dont have masters. All your phds are just masters in europe

>>15255843
>nobody knows why shit actually reacts
did you ever read about reaction mechanisms tracking by substituting hydrogens with deuterium / tritium?
You have no idea what you're talking about, tard.

>>15255843
You're certainly not describing chemists, but if you were it would still be better than physicists who think dark matter is real

>>15255853
Unfortunately, yes, most PhDs in the US have been devalued greatly. That is true. Though I'm not a normal person, I'm not impressed by any PhD, no matter where they come from...I judge on the Thesis alone.
>I'm not American, just born there. I consider education to be a binary, a PhD=1. Everything else=0.
>Schizo=1/0 (or a Dynamic Binary, case dependent)

I skipped Chemistry and jumped from Physics to Molecular Biology, so many years later I picked this up for a "Ground up." read. Really more interested in SAM and Mathematical Chemistry, (then plugged through an AI, especially for the Medical field), but I will never be able to do much work in those fields as a self funded researcher.

>>15255677
Watch out, this guy (or transgirl?) has read two heckin shelves full of shallow pop sci introductions.

What your PhD in?
Anything other than solid state is garbage. Soft matter, Plasma are the worst.
I'm a postdoc in cosmology and I hate it.

>>15255677
Books with "science" in the title are always unscientific trash. You have at least four of them. Embarrassing.

>>15255908
>solid
>soft
Is this "Simple as." or not?

https://av.tib.eu/media/45109

>>15255677
I have a theory gravitational force is pshing force

Newton duped every one intentionally

What do you think?

>>15255926
Very interesting do you have an equation?

>>15255905
This. The key is to specialize ever more and actually contribute something to this world, and not wind up a loser with basic knowledge in 1000 fields.

>>15255934
>specialize ever more
This is the Age of the Interdisciplinary.
Your one trick pony's day are numbered.

>>15255928
>Very interesting do you have an equation?

No I am not that good..

But I am guessing it wil be something like inverse-square approximation of some general theory

As the very foundation of pysics is wrong we wil have so many paradoxes ,we have to patch it now and then with some other crazy theory.it goes on and on....

And this is how we ended up in QM and GR

>>15255934
Nah, that's NPC. A true polymath has advanced textbooks of multiple fields.

>>15255928
My first suspicious aroused from reading about Marinov motors

Newton-Law of Gravitation -1666 year-Apple symbolism
I don't anon...

>>15255945
interdisciplinary doesn't mean having introductory knowledge in 30 fairly disjoint fields, something OP, like a retard, boasts about. Interdisciplinary knowledge is good to great knowledge in a few fields, and knowledge in their intersection (which usually is quite developed already). Applying higher math to physics or chemistry is fruitful, applying music theory to history is not.

>>15255971
>Why yes I am a master of few trades and a jack of many how could you tell

>>15255971
>applying music theory to history is not.
I disagree.
>physics or chemistry
I see 5 fields all interconnect, easily so.
How many do you seee?

>Side note, had a thought the other day, the word "University", Uni (1) and Verse (Sentence/Thought), so it means "One Thought" or how we would call it today;
Theory of Everything.

My...how things have changed...

>>15255971
>applying music theory to history is not.
Even on this intersection not being fruitful. There's been studies done on how music influences culture and vice versa, and you could place many historical events in a musical context, or the evolution of a particular genre in the context of a historical event. Honestly I don't think there's such a thing as useless knowledge, any bit we learn that adds to the body of knowledge we posses is a good thing.

>>15256000
And music is pure mathematics, from frequency in the atmosphere for notes to patterns upon patterns. When I listen to music I sometimes see the music as some kind of formless geometry.

Music can be made into an equation too, the only issue I had my whole life with simply doing so was having a logic metric for time, since its frequency/physical dependent, and it wasnt until I had my savant ascension that I figured out hiw to do it. Unfortunately that was many many years ago and have since forgotten it, as I deal with massive issues in life...rip...

>>15255831
Are you poor?