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Please bear with me when I say that I am 17 (just turned) year old and have a profound interest and an unsatisfiable curious thirst when it comes to the extraordinarily world that is Physics.
What I have come to this forum is to humbly ask of you guys for help and any possible advice you may offer. Every bit counts.
My story:
I have never been good at mathematics and make simple errors even when it comes to simple calculations, but in the sciences, even as a small child I have always been at the top of my class, maybe not in grades but the interest, knowledge and dare I say intelligence, all the teachers that I have had all the way from Kindergarten trough high school have always acknowledge this and I have somewhat build myself a reputation among my peers for my scientifically incline. I am currently trying to improve my calculating abilities since I never actually had the opportunity to learn algebra and I am struggling with it, but I do have a tutor who I pay weekly to help me out whenever I reach a dead end or just simply don't understand the lesson. I am making significant progress.
For almost a year I have decided that my Ideal career choice has been in physics. In what branch? You may ask. I am teared away by that question, for quite some time I envisioned myself being a theoretical physicist. But when it comes right down to it I have a hard time finding the right resources to make my dream a reality. What I have is a basic understanding of what physics is and it's theories/concepts. But the few things that I know I understand completely ( or so I think)
Knowledge:
Here is a list of what I have educated myself over the past year: String theory, Multiverse theory, general relativity, special relativity, Schroedinger's cat, the twin paradox, the grandfather paradox, Black Holes, the three fundamental laws of thermodynamics, entropy, superposition, the Doppler effect all the way to the formation of the cosmos and the big bang; the many multiple ways that the Universe might face it's ultimate end. And some other fundamental stuff.
Please understand that I have taught myself all of these things in the past year off of some books like: Einsteins Cosmo's, A Briefer History of Time and most recently The elegant Universe; Also countless hours of the Science channel's documentaries about physics.
I would also like to add that while this may seem hard for some of you to believe before I had developed any idea interest in physics I also had my own theory about multiple dimensions and multiverses far before I was even aware of it so I dubbed it "Endless Bubble Theory". I came up with how would they could possibly work I came up with how each bubble could represent an entire Universe and how they would have parallel universes similar to the other one but still some minor differences and how one universe would be made of positive matter and the other of negative matter and if both of them would so far as come in contact with the other they would both disappear in a great flash of light because they would cancel each other out. I even went as far to propose my mom to help me patent the idea, at the time which I had thought that I would make a significant contribution to sciences. But the Idea was short lived and came to it's end when I left the science channel on one day while writing my essay explaining every little detail of my theory and some British man talking with Dr Kaku about multiverses said almost exactly what my Idea had been, I was baffled that we both had the same idea with the same design and core laws. I felt a something shatter in me that day, but I did not give up. I thought, if a man with his intellect and vast knowledge of the cosmos had come up with basically my idea as well what could I achieve if I really tried and developed a profound passion for physics? What could stop me from coming up with other things and far better things? That's how I decided that I would become a theoretical physicist, to unlock the secrets of the Universe that have eluded us for centuries and have a build a detailed understanding of what is the Universe.
Education:
Since I had some major issues in my Life I had to drop out of high school and go into virtual school which did not help me at all, so now I am attending a charter school (Currently in 9th grade) which should take me about a year or two to finish, no less than a two years I've been told depending on my pace, after I earn my high school diploma I plan on going to a junior college and receiving all the training that I can logically acquire to educate myself and from then on I plan on attending Berkely University.
Bottom Line:
What I've humbly come to ask you as a community is that I have a passion for physics even if my understanding of it is extremely small compared to yours I aspire to be an astrophysicist or a theoretical physicist and I am fully committed in doing everything in my power so that I can become one, so I please ask you to point me in the right direction and offer any advice or insight in what I should do.
Humbly and Sincerely
-Soloenergy
What I have come to this forum is to humbly ask of you guys for help and any possible advice you may offer. Every bit counts.
My story:
I have never been good at mathematics and make simple errors even when it comes to simple calculations, but in the sciences, even as a small child I have always been at the top of my class, maybe not in grades but the interest, knowledge and dare I say intelligence, all the teachers that I have had all the way from Kindergarten trough high school have always acknowledge this and I have somewhat build myself a reputation among my peers for my scientifically incline. I am currently trying to improve my calculating abilities since I never actually had the opportunity to learn algebra and I am struggling with it, but I do have a tutor who I pay weekly to help me out whenever I reach a dead end or just simply don't understand the lesson. I am making significant progress.
For almost a year I have decided that my Ideal career choice has been in physics. In what branch? You may ask. I am teared away by that question, for quite some time I envisioned myself being a theoretical physicist. But when it comes right down to it I have a hard time finding the right resources to make my dream a reality. What I have is a basic understanding of what physics is and it's theories/concepts. But the few things that I know I understand completely ( or so I think)
Knowledge:
Here is a list of what I have educated myself over the past year: String theory, Multiverse theory, general relativity, special relativity, Schroedinger's cat, the twin paradox, the grandfather paradox, Black Holes, the three fundamental laws of thermodynamics, entropy, superposition, the Doppler effect all the way to the formation of the cosmos and the big bang; the many multiple ways that the Universe might face it's ultimate end. And some other fundamental stuff.
Please understand that I have taught myself all of these things in the past year off of some books like: Einsteins Cosmo's, A Briefer History of Time and most recently The elegant Universe; Also countless hours of the Science channel's documentaries about physics.
I would also like to add that while this may seem hard for some of you to believe before I had developed any idea interest in physics I also had my own theory about multiple dimensions and multiverses far before I was even aware of it so I dubbed it "Endless Bubble Theory". I came up with how would they could possibly work I came up with how each bubble could represent an entire Universe and how they would have parallel universes similar to the other one but still some minor differences and how one universe would be made of positive matter and the other of negative matter and if both of them would so far as come in contact with the other they would both disappear in a great flash of light because they would cancel each other out. I even went as far to propose my mom to help me patent the idea, at the time which I had thought that I would make a significant contribution to sciences. But the Idea was short lived and came to it's end when I left the science channel on one day while writing my essay explaining every little detail of my theory and some British man talking with Dr Kaku about multiverses said almost exactly what my Idea had been, I was baffled that we both had the same idea with the same design and core laws. I felt a something shatter in me that day, but I did not give up. I thought, if a man with his intellect and vast knowledge of the cosmos had come up with basically my idea as well what could I achieve if I really tried and developed a profound passion for physics? What could stop me from coming up with other things and far better things? That's how I decided that I would become a theoretical physicist, to unlock the secrets of the Universe that have eluded us for centuries and have a build a detailed understanding of what is the Universe.
Education:
Since I had some major issues in my Life I had to drop out of high school and go into virtual school which did not help me at all, so now I am attending a charter school (Currently in 9th grade) which should take me about a year or two to finish, no less than a two years I've been told depending on my pace, after I earn my high school diploma I plan on going to a junior college and receiving all the training that I can logically acquire to educate myself and from then on I plan on attending Berkely University.
Bottom Line:
What I've humbly come to ask you as a community is that I have a passion for physics even if my understanding of it is extremely small compared to yours I aspire to be an astrophysicist or a theoretical physicist and I am fully committed in doing everything in my power so that I can become one, so I please ask you to point me in the right direction and offer any advice or insight in what I should do.
Humbly and Sincerely
-Soloenergy