Check out there avant garde instrumentalists HERE and let me know what you think. Quite impressive, huh?
Hi, 3rd year undergraduate here. I know Gerard T'Hooft has an amazing guide on "How to become a
GOOD Theoretical Physicist", but I'm yet to find any equivalent resource on experimental/applied physics. I'm guessing this is because it's so field specific? I'm primarily interested in solid-state physics/condensed matter and (nano)photonics and I'm a little concerned I have no clue what skills I should focus on building right now. My institution is rather small, and doesn't really have a solid-state/photonics person I can work with or learn from, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on what I should be teaching myself to succeed in the field? Thank you so much.
Most of the time, I hear about great theoretical mathematician or physicists. What about experimentalists?
Yves is a fucking rock star! Where’s the hesitation to call them a rock star coming from? Sure they’re experimental, but so is Jethro Tull! Sometimes I think it’s racially motivated as we’ve seen with older groups like funkadelic, but what do I know.
I’ve been meaning to explore these types of films (or a hybrid of the two) more deeply. So I decided to make this post asking what some of your favorite films are that fall under either or both of those descriptions. It can be a part of the criterion collection or outside of it, and I encourage works that may even be quite obscure or lesser known. There’s hidden gems everywhere to be found.
One of my personal favorites is The Dante Quartet, the short film by Stan Brakhage that is a visual, beautifully artistic interpretation of Dante’s the Divine Comedy. 6 years to make, but only 6 minutes and 6 seconds long, completely devoid of any sound whatsoever. It’s a stunning “reverse-ekphrasis” that just honestly captivates me from start to finish and always invites me to watch more. What enhances my appreciation for the work is the context that surrounds it, and how Brakhage managed to channel his psyche and the entire work of Dante’s in such an interesting way. It doesn’t overstay its welcome, and every frame is gorgeously illustrated.
I just started my PhD two weeks before we were locked out of the lab, so for the most part I’ve been reading papers and planning experiments. However I’m sort of running out of stuff to do. So, fellow research students, PhD’s and experimentalists... what are you doing to stay productive at home and do you have any tips?
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Basically the question in the title. For anyone unfamiliar, here are a popular science article (1) and the original paper (2) describing the Frauchiger-Renner experiment.
When presenting a theory no one believes you, but when presenting your experiments' data, you're the only one who doesn't believe you. (Heard this joke from a seminar speaker last week, figured I share).
Asking if any of this class feature is too strong, or if it all is. I wanted to make something where one of your infusions gains a bigger prominence in your spell-casting.
Starting at 5th level you can choose one of the following infusions to learn and create, and it doesn't count against your infused item limit. Homunculus Servant, Mind Sharpener, Sending Stones. The infusion you choose gains an additional experimental property
Homunculus Servant: Once per short or Long Rest you can cast any spell with a range of touch and casting time of 1 action through your Homunculus Servant as a bonus action
Mind Sharpener: Choose one concentration spell of second level or lower at the end of a long rest. You can store it within the Mind Sharpener without expending a spell slot. When the Mind Sharpener is used to cast the spell it does not require concentration and you gain temporary hit points equal to 3 times your proficiency bonus. The spell lasts for as long as its maximum duration, or for as long as you retain your pool of temporary hit points, if they are lost, the effect of the spell vanishes early.
Sending Stones: If you cast a spell with a range of self, if you possess one of the sending stones you can affect instead whoever possesses the other sending stone of the pair. You maintain concentration on a spell cast this way.
Entering my undergrad, I wanted to pursue a career in academia doing research in pure mathematics, like algebra or topology or something. Over the past couple of years, however, I've come to realize how absolutely grueling the job market is for this sort of thing and have decided that it just wouldn't be worth it and I need to figure out a different plan. Quantum computing has caught my interest since there's a lot of cool mathematics involved and it's an exciting new field in and of itself, so I'm considering pursuing a career here.
My question is, how are the job prospects? I would love to do a PhD, but I would have a hard time justifying the investment to myself (even if I do love the subject) if I would very likely have to completely change course afterwards anyways, in which case I could have started actually building my career out of undergrad and focused on my interests in my free time. It seems the most opportunity lies in experimentation, but that's not really in line with my interests or experience, since I'm studying math & computer science. Other than that though, I'm flexible. Topological quantum computing, error correction, quantum information theory, algorithm development, the theoretical physics aspect of figuring out new ways to make qubits, etc all seem interesting to me.
Are there good opportunities out there? Is industry research a reasonable thing to shoot for? Or is this a bad place for someone who's risk averse?
so i've spent quite a number of years and hours not only testing high purity chems on myself and observing respective dose results. But i've also been quite invested in understanding how and why these effects occurred. This community seems quite focused on the things I used to day dream on and ponder on for years, but what is BoraX? is it what we use to clean our clothes?
