What do you do to learn?

[Anonymous No.15187127]

I've just graduated, and while I'm working a job I'd like to keep up on Physics research and continue learning. Moreover, I'd like to also make some experiments myself; nothing high-level, just on the same level as those experiments we all did at high school, and cement my understanding.

Are there any resources you guys would recommend on doing your own experiments? If you don't experiment, and just study, how do you get started so you can comprehend the research papers? I've heard Springer is good, but maybe it's just impossible for some things..

>tldr
if Physics isn't in your main job, what do you do to keep up?
>pic related: me browsing arXiv

[Anonymous No.15187138]

1) Pour oil, water and syrup into a glass
2) Drop a bottle cap, a lego and a grape in it
3) Observe how they float on 3 different levels
4) Congratulations you are now a scientist

[Anonymous No.15187150]

>>15187127
you're a homosexual pedophile who jacks off to children's cartoons, go get a nice rope and experiment to see how much weight your neck can hold

[Anonymous No.15187169]

>>15187127
> If you don't experiment, and just study, how do you get started
The /sci/ wiki page in the sqt thread has book recommendations, they're geared towards self study.

[Anonymous No.15187173]

>>15187150
anime website thoughever

[Anonymous No.15187225]

learn some electronics and buy some sensors, then you can setup your own experiment and get the data using mqtt or something like that and you can collect it and analyse it later using R or Python.

[Anonymous No.15187237]

>>15187127
i use google scholar and build toy models/simulations

[Anonymous No.15187255]

>>15187127
This thread sucks.

[Anonymous No.15187284]

Learning is a useless enterprise if you're poor. Your mind is thinking about money to get fuel, rent, and afford to eat. You got to remember, 80% of the kids in college had no financial woes. It doesn't even bother them how much a meal plan or textbooks cost. Point it out and they say so? That's why college is a joke. Totally rigged. Low IQ people with no ability to focus, coast through just fine because their parents paid for fancy living on campus and a $2000 meal plan, meanwhile high IQ Chads got none of this if they had poor parents without even a 401k.

[Anonymous No.15187324]

>>15187284
You seem frustrated. Do you want to talk about it?

[Anonymous No.15187703]

>>15187150

[Anonymous No.15190183]

bump

[Anonymous No.15190751]

>>15187127
Read.
You can learn more in 6 months at the library and online than you can in 6 years at a "university".

[Anonymous No.15190776]

>>15187127
Its easier in my career, an example:
I hate how africans destroy their forests and animals so i read about it.
While i read and search i find interesting stuff
The copy paste that stuff + pdf in brave or yandex or bing...

[Anonymous No.15190790]

>>15187284
Behold, the defeatist