These are probably the two of the worst reasons to work in finance.
There's lots of jobs that aren't finance, where you can still make money.
What's your background?
Why don't you try to do theory?
Well, I'm not a software engineer, but I would say that if you have a master's degree from a reputable program, it should be something that you could pass. Said differently, if you don't pass the qualifying exam, and a lot of other people from your program don't pass, it's probably not a very...
Check the requirements of the programs you want to go to online, and make sure to start studying for the comp sci GRE test. If you have the prereqs and do well on the test, it should be no problem.
Also, if you can, try to get in on some physics research where you actually have to program...
THE theory of quantum gravity is string theory, of course.
All kidding aside, though:
THE theory of quantum gravity is that microscopic description of Nature whose low energy limit is consistent with both GR and the standard model. While it is true that the low energy physics can not...
It's very possible that some, as of yet uninvented, approach to quantum gravity may evade these problems. Of course, the burden of proof is on that community to actually come up with a workable theory first. Surely it is possible that such a theory exists, but it is also possible that the LHC...
I am glad to see that you really understood the content of what I was talking about. You know---I come to this forum so that I can occasionally put in my two cents about things that I am interested in, or have thought about. It is truly rare that I meet someone who really gets me, at such a...
tom, et al.---
Expect a longer response to your questions in the near future, but let me make a point quickly that most people don't acknowledge.
The MSSM has a landscape problem.
Let me clarify: when I say ``landscape problem'', I'm not referring to cc problems (which no body can...
Yeah, but he's not going to be on the front lines lobbing gernades. He'll probably be in some hardened bunker controlling a UAV.
The Armed services aren't interested in wasting their brain trust fighting on the front lines.
I do know one PhD student at Berkley who was in the Navy for something like 4 years, I think. He had an undergrad degree in physics, went to the Navy as a nuclear engineer, then went to grad school.
I don't know how common this is in America, but in other countries doing a stint in the...
Or, you know, I could just cut and paste the abstracts from a bunch of papers I don't understand, rather than talking about actual physics.
That seems to go over well here.