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How physicists see other fields, part 2:
Philosophy: logic physics
Music: acoustic physics
Rhetoric: word physics
Law: man-made physics
Economics: green paper physics
Liberal Arts: idk, probably some kind of physics
Anonymous asked:
Yeah!!
abominable-joeman asked:
Yeah I mean
Physics is just math applied to real world situations
*chanting like a mantra* I am an adult who studies physics i am an adult who studies physics i am an adult who studies physics i am an adult who studies physics
Anonymous asked:
2. And I’m stunned Bc he’s the first one I met there that has anything to do with cern and I’m a huge fangirl. He’s doing his PhD and is using some or the ATLAS data. He tells me to go to his office if I have any questions, and of course I go the next day with a friend of mine. We get in, sit down and the first thing he says is “I suppose you like physics to be here. So I’ll give you an advise. Don’t do Hugh energy physics. It’s dying, there are too many scientists and too little jobs,
3. there isn’t any more progress to be made. It was at its zenith on the beginning of the 20rh century, but then it died out. That’s just a friendly advice”. And, like, I knew all this. But to hear it from someone like him…. I honestly feel like high energy physics is the reason I’m in this world, I can’t see myself doing anything else and that was a slap in the face
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Okay, there’s a lot to unpack here. First off, what kind of idiot says ‘yep there’s no more science to be done over here so let’s go somewhere else! The science here is all dried up!’ Like????
It’s also not uncommon for a prof to kind of build up a grad student with no intention of having said student replacing anyone but themselves. You see it a lot, actually, teaching to fill the task force rather than progress.
Don’t let that guy stop you from being who you want to be.
Right so now I’m in the physics club so I get invited to all the physics department parties and stuff and its like,,, I’m always the youngest person there by at least 25 years unless I drag some of the physics club members with me but its like a bunch of old nerdy conservative dudes and then one (1) gay teenager with blue hair and a Bernie Sanders shirt
One of my old college buddies that I haven’t spoken to in years just sent me his plans for a perpetual motion device.
Anonymous asked:
Cs get degrees hunty!!!!!!
Anonymous asked:
MAJOR TW FOR SUICIDE-- My friend who was an astrophysics major killed himself back in October, and it's kinda made me hate astrophysics and physics in general since then (despite recently graduating in physics this May), but seeing you on here, still alive and kicking and being a cool space mom, it makes me kinda happy, you know? Like wow, maybe physics isn't so bad, maybe space can be cool again, maybe my friend is at peace with the stars...
It’s a stressful major but studying it definitely gives a lot of people peace in a way? Like it makes you realize the vastness of everything and how the universe is so much more than just us and idk. It can be very humbling and it gives some people this peace of mind in a way that’s comforting, hopefully it was for your friend. Idk what their beliefs are spiritually but hopefully it gave them some peace and continues to do so wherever they may be now
This doesn’t look like much, but these are RR Lyrae variable stars! They’re 10,500 light years way! I took about half of these pictures, and my classmates took the other half. I took the data and ran it through a few Python programs and made them into a gif! The observing period here was unfortunately only about 2 hours, but we got some good data!
The two stars here that are RR Lyrae variable stars are V* BH Peg and V* BG Peg (circled in the image below, BH Peg is the top star and BG Peg is the bottom).
RR Lyrae Variable stars are stars that are nearing the end of their life, and their luminosity changes periodically. There are non-RR Lyrae Variable stars that can have periods of years, or they may fluctuate irregularly.
RR Lyraes are really cool though! RR Lyraes are pulsating aging stars with a mass of around half the Sun’s. They’re thought to have previously shed mass during the Red-Giant Branch phase, and consequently, they were once stars with similar or slightly less mass than the Sun. Because of this, they’re super easy to use to gauge distances in our galaxy and local globular clusters (blobs of stars). But what’s even crazier is that they have periods of between 40 and 0.3 days. That’s super fast, cosmically speaking!
Oh! and the bottom star is an Eclipsing Binary! That means that one blob is actually two stars, and because of our vantage point from earth, they cross in front of each other!
V* BH Peg has a period of 0.6 days, and V* BG Peg has a period of 1.9 days.
