Anyone else into Physics?

[supra2nv]

you know, light, gravity, time, space, QED, particles, waves, etc...anyone else? fun to think about haha.

[Juvenile]

I'm a huge fan of the Big Bang Theory, well Penny anyway, so what I know is fairly limited with possibly no cred but I'm a great listener

[Grishbok]

Yes, but you have to refine the question as to which school of physics you are talking about. Theoretical physics? applied physics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, etc etc

[malave7567]

I studied 2 years towards my Mech-E (and am looking to go back and finish it after settling down a bit). I've always loved Physics classes from high school into college. I tried to do plenty of my own reading and studying. I have studied a little bit of all of the ones you have mentioned. Did a book report on Feynman's book, "Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter." So I'm no expert... professors told me I had a knack for it, but it wasn't in the cards to be able to stay and do a Physics/Engineering degree.

Quantum has always been extremely interesting to me.

You changed the results by measuring them!

[Matt314]

Read any of the books by Brian Greene...fascinating stuff.

[Luis_GT]

Im a civil engineer and I hate physics...


how does that happen... I dont know

[PrDarkKnight]

Fan of physics...and Sheldon jaja

[cfusionpm]

I've loved reading books by Stephen Hawking, Brian Grene, and Michio Kaku. I loved physics back in college and still love reading about advanced ideas. But the higher level math really started going over my head. I wish I perused it more back then, but I still like reading about all these fantastic scientific theories.

Grene also has a few short series' on PBS that were abridged video versions of his two big books Elegant Universe and Fabric of the Cosmos. Really good stuff for anyone with a basic understanding of science and wants to know all the cool stuff people have discovered over the past century.

Edit: BTW, my favorite joke from Big Bang Theory was a cheese line that Leanord had one episode:

"So this farmer has a problem with his chickens; they won't lay any eggs.
He hires a physicist to figure out the problem and come up with a solution.
After a while the physicist comes back and says 'I've got it!'
'I have a solution to your chicken problem! ...But it only works with spherical chickens... in a vacuum.... on a friction-less plane....'"

[DylanFRS]

I am an engineer wishing I did more physics and less CAD. I got into engineering because I loved physics and mechanics, now I don't either.

[supra2nv]

Originally Posted by Grishbok

Yes, but you have to refine the question as to which school of physics you are talking about. Theoretical physics? applied physics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, etc etc

I personally under the stance that everything is related to everything (Michio talks about this)...QED is specifically what I am into, but also find importance to understand classical physics, thermodynamics, and others. Until Maxwell made his unification for example, magnetism and electricity were under two different schools of thought no? but then we realize they are (as Feynman put it), "different aspects of the same thing." this may sound off topic sorta, but I think Nikola Tesla understood that most things around us is a varying frequency/amplitude of light/information. i.e. radio, florescent, xray, he just knew how to hack nature in my opinion. that's all we do right? we hack nature?

I've never taken a physics class btw, just think about stuff a lot, infinity, gravity, light, patterns in nature (Fibonacci is all over the place, phi, 1.618 ratio, etc), i'm very much so all over the map. I play with magnets, copper wire, light, prisms, and I find myself with an idea, search the idea, and land at someone who talked about that idea...so you find yourself digging deeper and deeper...anyways, glad others enjoy physics as well

edit: Also find myself getting into the realm of the Mind, consciousness, etc when thinking about the stuff mentioned above...so again, I really think everything is related to everything somehow...but that's just a "guess" for now lol

[WingsofWar]

My dissertation was on quantum psychology, basically applying the subject of quantum mechanics and converting the theories to better understand how the mind and consciousness works beyond biology. Loosely basing my theories off Prometheus Rising by Robert Wilson.

Quantum entanglement was my favorite part of the subject.

What sparked some issues with some classmates of mine was how my theory explained "God". In a nutshell, while im a catholic and practicing, i believe that God is not some mystical being, but a conscious system of energy that binds the laws of our universe together.

To me I believe that, "God Personified", was the first scientist, and not a magician who seemly created the universe just for tiny earth to exist.

As a catholic, we believe in a rational God. Yet there is nothing rational about a omnipotent personified being in the image of a humanoid that creates things out of a whim. He himself should be bound by His own laws that we are discovering today in science.

[jkonquer]

I'm no physicist but I just love hearing new theories and ideas.

btw is it just me or Big Bang theory doesn't make sense at all.

[WingsofWar]

Originally Posted by jkonquer

I'm no physicist but I just love hearing new theories and ideas.

btw is it just me or Big Bang theory doesn't make sense at all.

kinda hard to make perfect sense of it when much of the theory relies on assumptions.

All you gotta know is that at a single point of origin, all matter and energy in "our" universe was compressed into a tiny point and exploded creating an expanding bubble filled with "space".

[dem00n]

Theories and sense are like hot snow.