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[Anonymous No.9892211]

The last thread died edition

[Anonymous No.9892233]

>>9892211
They found proof of water on Mars

[Anonymous No.9892235]

Does anyone have any idea how hard it is to get into Harvard Physics grad school?

Im from Massachusetts so aside from it being a very thought of school it would be my first choice.

Right now im going into my sophomore year of Uni and im just trying to get as much research experience as I can. Is there anything else I should try and do to give myself the best chance?

[Anonymous No.9892236]

>>9892233
I feel like they “discover” water on Mars every few years

[Anonymous No.9892280]

i am unsure of the choices i've made

and i dislike this board

[Anonymous No.9892293]

>>9892280
>i am unsure of the choices i've made
>and i dislike this board
Me too buddy, me too
>>9892235
>Does anyone have any idea how hard it is to get into Harvard Physics grad school?
This is probably bait, but whatever. A great GPA and research experience isn't enough, typically you also want awards like the goldwater and nsf graduate research fellowship to really make yourself competitive. You might be able to get in if you have a ridiculously good research track record (something like 6 papers in physical review) but barring that solid gpa, test scores, research, letters of rec, and awards will get you far. Really, just apply to a lot of schools. Harvard physics is focused on things like string theory and condensed matter mostly, I don't really hear much from anything else.

[Anonymous No.9892570]

Give me an unconventional method of committing suicide when I fail to find employment after finishing my PhD.

If it's physics-y, all the better.

[Anonymous No.9892591]

>>9892570
Volunteer for Brother Elon's voyage to The Red Planet.
At least you'll get to see cool shit before you die.

[Anonymous No.9892858]

>>9892570
Work in finance. Physicists are like rockstars in that field.

[Anonymous No.9892919]

>>9892211
more like trisicks

[Anonymous No.9894146]

Do you guys self-study physics? As in study material that you are not currently taking a class in to get better at it. I usually find that hopeless and just self-study math and focus on the physics classes that I am currently taking.

[Anonymous No.9894167]

>>9892570
Test the many-worlds theory (Everett) as follows

Set up a radioactive trigger to a deadly gas with 50% "kill" rate.

Run the test 100 times.

If you find yourself alive (in some world) then this is pretty well proof many-worlds is true. if the "collapse of the wave function" nonsense is true then there is only a 2^(-100) chance of surviving approx = 10^(-30).

In that world you are famous by showing that many worlds does in fact generate testable conclusions and is in fact true.

> Nobel Prize awarded to you

[Anonymous No.9894198]

>>9894167
>>9892591
>>9892858
Good ideas, although killing my soul through a career in finance might be too slow and insidious even for me.

For the many-worlds suicide thing it would be important to make sure the survival probability of getting gassed (accounting for freak accidents etc.) is significantly smaller than the probability of getting 100 no-gas dice rolls, because otherwise even if it works and I survive I'd probably end up with significant but non-lethal damage from the gas.

[Anonymous No.9894208]

>>9894167
>Test the many-worlds theory (Everett) as follows
Everybody already know that MWI is crap, as it only predict rational values for the probabilities.

[Anonymous No.9894236]

>>9894208
Are you saying Wildberger was right all along

[Anonymous No.9894412]

>>9892235
really hard.
just be black my niggaz and you get in free with full scholarship

[Anonymous No.9894417]

>>9894412
>jew planet
>gas giant

hmmm

[Anonymous No.9894636]

What kind of jobs can I get with just a Bachelor's in Physics, and little job experience?

[Anonymous No.9894649]

>>9894636
None. Get your masters and become a hs physics teacher.

[Anonymous No.9894676]

>>9894649
This makes me sad...

This can’t true right?

[Anonymous No.9894683]

>>9894636
This makes me sad...

Some one please tell me it isnt

[Anonymous No.9894693]

>>9894649
What fucking school requires a masters for hs physics?

[Anonymous No.9894725]

>>9894693
Most high schools in Burgertown don't require a master's, but it will get you about 10k more/year compared to those who don't have one, so it's worthwhile to get one.

[Anonymous No.9894780]

>>9894725
Not true at all. NJ and NY schools require for teachers to have at least a masters degree in teaching or education. I don't know how it is in Arkansas or Louisiana, but those are the standards.

[Anonymous No.9895897]

>>9894780
My apologies. I was speaking from experience in Washington and Idaho, but it sounds like the east coast is different.

[Anonymous No.9895908]

>>9894636
You can't do shit with just Bachelor's in any field, it's not specialized much

[Anonymous No.9895934]

>>9894693
All schools in my country do. The high school curriculum gets pretty advanced, especially in the last two years.

[Anonymous No.9895936]

>>9892233
How solid is this exactly? They say they found a layer of something with a dielectrical permeability of >15 in the abstract but I didnt read the entire thing.

[Anonymous No.9895943]

Which Masters program in physics?
Materials research, industrial physics, medical engineering, theoretical, or astrophysics?

Hows the employment and pros/cons?

[Anonymous No.9895951]

>>9895936
Read it nigger :

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/science.aar7268

[Anonymous No.9895952]

>>9895943
What the fuck is industrial physics?

[Anonymous No.9895965]

>>9895952
New program to make physics more employable I guess

[Anonymous No.9895978]

>>9895965
But how? The only employable/industry thing I can think about is materials which is already covered by materials physics.

[Anonymous No.9895981]

>>9895965
That would be the greatest fuckin bullshit I've ever heard. If people want to work for companies later on why would they study physics? If you consider going into finance then study math, if you consider going into engineering study fuckin engineering and if you consider going into computer science study fuckin computer science.

Man this really pisses me off. Also fellow students of mine always whine about the fact that it's so hard to find a job as a physicist because you 'didn't learn anything correctly'. But this is their own fault. Physics for me is a pure research science. You can become either a scientist or a teacher. If you want to be something else study something different motherfucker...

[Anonymous No.9895982]

Going to be done with my Bachelor in two months. Already signed up for my master. I'm probably choosing theoretical astrophysics as my main subject. Now the thing is, I don't want to do anything physics related after my Masters.
What do I do? Finance sounds good but I'm not sure how easy it will be with zero experience.
Also, does anyone have some tips for writing your bachelor thesis?

[Anonymous No.9896019]

>>9892570
Why would you go into a PhD in the first place if you don't want to stay in research?

[Anonymous No.9896040]

>>9895981
What about development?

[Anonymous No.9896041]

Is there such a thing as a present with no future nor past in Physics?

[Anonymous No.9896050]

>>9896041

a point in time without a time surrounding it is meaningless since for a meaningful time you need 2 distinct points.

[Anonymous No.9896074]

no physics general is complete without Motlposting

https://motls.blogspot.com/


>Furey's and Dixon's papers on octonions are pure crackpottery, they are completely wrong, the chance that something will change about this fact in the future is zero, people who suggest that these papers have the same status as big papers on string theory are just psychopaths, and your fanatical and unfriendly defense of the indefensible and your efforts to silence scientists mean that you are a threat for the civilization and the civilization will either die in a slow death or it will have to look for ways to prevent the material like you from spreading on the surface of Planet Earth.

[Anonymous No.9896213]

>>9896074
>reading up on this
>it's another 'popsci gives attention to """genius""" physics outsider with wacky new ToE'
>"She also has a hunch, reflecting a common allergy to infinity, that R⊗C⊗H⊗O is actually an approximation that will be replaced, in the final theory, with another, related mathematical system that does not involve the infinite continuum of real numbers."
>this time featuring Wildberger

[Anonymous No.9896243]

Where my fellow PhDs and what field are you in?

Microscopy/polarimetry reporting

[Anonymous No.9896253]

>>9896243
I meant phd students btw, but if you already have yours it's still a valid question

[Anonymous No.9896287]

>>9896243
I'm already a doctor in Theoretical Physics (AdS/CFT in particular).

[Anonymous No.9896297]

>>9896243
I'm here. Signal Processing & Applied Math

[Anonymous No.9896298]

>>9896253
Sorry, wrong thread.

>>9896297

[Anonymous No.9896312]

>>9896243
Optoelectronics