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Sci.Jayme
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Hi all
I am just another nobody compared to the educated people here, hence I lurk around but have nothing accurate and factual to post about to contribute with real graduates. To be frank, I am daunted and no fan of the consistent and perpetual attacks that go around online, the amount of lies and people acting to be knowledgeable professionals who have no clue, the endless e-P contests that arise due to this and the pointless argumentations and aggressiveness, expecting the same if I asked a question or wanted to learn, so I tend to stay aloof.
I am nearly 17 YO and studying 6x A-Levels in the UK. My father worked in the semiconductor business as a lithography tool operator and later, a microprocessor design engineer in the early 80s but later moved into his real expertise, which was mathematical physics. He worked in the US within a subdivision of the DoE but tragically died during an accident in the early 90s. I want to follow his footsteps and become someone he would've been proud of to do good for humans through science and maths, which he loved and strongly encouraged. So far in my study level, I find the maths and the 3x sciences very easy (but I suppose most would, things like integration/differentiation).
I tend to read here at times and on www.physforum.com[/url] to gain knowledge. Over there, I only read posts of [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=7197"]mr_homm[/URL], [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=2997"]rpenner[/URL], [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=8587"]AlphaNumeric[/URL] and a few other posters who professional friends of my father had advised since too much is waste for me as well as untrustworthy and unconfirmed. One website, the link my mother was given to a while ago for me to study links from, by one of my father's friends who (IIRC) is a professor in theoretical physics, I visit and tend to _try_ and study material from is this: [PLAIN]http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/~g.j.weatherill/ [Broken]
This man called George, the author, writes under his About section that he works at SHEP which is exactly the same place I want to visit and work at in the future, although I am far off. I'd like to study and do research here: http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/
I can't even understand the work mentioned in many links he cited and yet I'm doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology at A-Levels. Kinda feels very daunting. Since my father died though, I have to work and support family and myself too, so it's become hard. I hardly ever get internet access which means studying is extremely disadvantaged combined with short time. I can only accomplish ~5% of what others with similar pursuits can in any given month and reading books is traditionally not one of my hobbies being very sport taken (unless my head can see how it'll help me, then generally I can read it forever).
Maybe people here know and can advise me how to get to the position of the guy I linked. How would I go about with my career choices to get there... by what age... and how good do I have to be right now at my level to be on course? I am sure people here would've gone through similar routes to be able to help me first hand.
Thanks for any help, greatly appreciated. :)
I am just another nobody compared to the educated people here, hence I lurk around but have nothing accurate and factual to post about to contribute with real graduates. To be frank, I am daunted and no fan of the consistent and perpetual attacks that go around online, the amount of lies and people acting to be knowledgeable professionals who have no clue, the endless e-P contests that arise due to this and the pointless argumentations and aggressiveness, expecting the same if I asked a question or wanted to learn, so I tend to stay aloof.
I am nearly 17 YO and studying 6x A-Levels in the UK. My father worked in the semiconductor business as a lithography tool operator and later, a microprocessor design engineer in the early 80s but later moved into his real expertise, which was mathematical physics. He worked in the US within a subdivision of the DoE but tragically died during an accident in the early 90s. I want to follow his footsteps and become someone he would've been proud of to do good for humans through science and maths, which he loved and strongly encouraged. So far in my study level, I find the maths and the 3x sciences very easy (but I suppose most would, things like integration/differentiation).
I tend to read here at times and on www.physforum.com[/url] to gain knowledge. Over there, I only read posts of [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=7197"]mr_homm[/URL], [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=2997"]rpenner[/URL], [URL="http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showuser=8587"]AlphaNumeric[/URL] and a few other posters who professional friends of my father had advised since too much is waste for me as well as untrustworthy and unconfirmed. One website, the link my mother was given to a while ago for me to study links from, by one of my father's friends who (IIRC) is a professor in theoretical physics, I visit and tend to _try_ and study material from is this: [PLAIN]http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/~g.j.weatherill/ [Broken]
This man called George, the author, writes under his About section that he works at SHEP which is exactly the same place I want to visit and work at in the future, although I am far off. I'd like to study and do research here: http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/
I can't even understand the work mentioned in many links he cited and yet I'm doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology at A-Levels. Kinda feels very daunting. Since my father died though, I have to work and support family and myself too, so it's become hard. I hardly ever get internet access which means studying is extremely disadvantaged combined with short time. I can only accomplish ~5% of what others with similar pursuits can in any given month and reading books is traditionally not one of my hobbies being very sport taken (unless my head can see how it'll help me, then generally I can read it forever).
Maybe people here know and can advise me how to get to the position of the guy I linked. How would I go about with my career choices to get there... by what age... and how good do I have to be right now at my level to be on course? I am sure people here would've gone through similar routes to be able to help me first hand.
Thanks for any help, greatly appreciated. :)
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