Recent content by and9

Thanks for the responses. I will have even less than a year to complete the project (2 semesters ~ 8 months) so I will definitely take into account a project that should only take 3-4 months in my estimation and expand on chosen project if needed. I have taken the basic assembler class...

I lol'd when I saw no Mechanics or Electromagnetism classes. Nor any equivalent mathematics classes.

OP read this quote again. Probably the best advice you'll find on PF regarding choosing a major.

Finding meaning in life is man's purpose is it not? It is a mix of our innate greed and curiosity. Those who become great have the 10 percent inspiration AND the 90 percent perspiration.

Whenever this happens for me, I just use GDB and run the code with the proper arguments and print the stack trace to see where the fault occurred. Doing what the previous user suggested above in terms of essentially binary searching for the line where the code stops at is helpful but won't...

As a physics/comp sci double major, for my honors degree I have to partake in a year of directed independent research. I'm currently doing physics research in the field of cosmology, specifically the CMBR and optimizing scan strategies for asymmetric beam patterns. For my computer science...

NO spacetime is neither created nor destroyed. Whoever said that spacetime is being created between two galaxes to accommodate for the expansion is wrong. It is called expansion for a reason -- we are literally expanding, or stretching if you will, the fabric of spacetime as the universe grows...

uhoh bro. I can see a future "will I get into grad school with these A mark blemishes on my record??" I'd advise you to do as much research as possible and attempt to publish as many first author articles as you can to make up for your deficiency in the classroom. Seriously though...

Do both. I was in the same boat as you. Math comes easy to me. I love programming.

Not much math is involved in software engineering (speaking from the Computer Science/Physics double major perspective). It is nice to know algorithms and how to implement your own algorithms but that is a luxury.

Character is a commodity in high demand but short supply. -- and9 To the OP, just graduate and learn on your own. You are not the first one who did this. At least you are honest with yourself. TBH your case isn't any different from the millions of humanities and economics majors who just...

OP watch this video from 23 seconds on My favorite line: "It really boils down to this concept of productivity. That you can apply the most amount of effort to the best of your ability in the allotted time you have. All successful people realize that time is the most precious commodity...

You want to measure absolute velocity. The problem is all of your measurements are determining velocity RELATIVE to another object in motion (CMB, spaceship, etc). What do you consider the frame for which your velocity is absolute? I like the time you put into the OP but the premise is...

Time is a dimension. It is a way of parametrizing what we physically observe. You have as good of a chance of "stopping" time as you do in "removing" or "stopping" a particular space coordinate from existence.

This is probably the best advice you can possibly find on PF if one desires to become a theoretical physicist.