Recent content by harmony5

After rewriting my SoP a lot of times I think I have finally completed a draft which is quite good. I hope you all agree and if not please tell me why. " My purpose in life is to expand our body of knowledge of how the universe operates. To realize this purpose my goal in graduate school is to...

Well given the current state of it I would be embarrassed to show my professors to be honest. It is indeed a mess. Quite possibly even the latest renditions are the worst SoP ever written on this forum. I would like to get a acceptable SoP first before I bringing it to my professors. Your right...

"Quantum field theory predicts a very large energy density for the vacuum, and this density should have large gravitational effects. However these effects are not observed, and the discrepancy between theory and observation is an incredible 120 orders of magnitude. There is no generally accepted...

I'm not trying to show off my knowledge of QFT or Quantum Gravity in my SoP. All I want to show is that I can translate the success I had in conducting research in nonlinear dynamics to this new field. http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:4285/content/aapt/journal/ajp/63/7/10.1119/1.17850 someone...

@micromass , @Vanadium 50 @radium if any of you can answer this question I think I'll know how to write this. My biggest road block trying to keep this thing under 700 words but at the same time convincing the admission committee I had a profound research experience. Every time I try to talk...

Predicted 1 Planck energy unit. Observed 10^-120 Planck energy units.

The observable consequence is that this energy density of 10^-120 is caused a negative pressure in the vacuum of space. This negative pressure is driving the expansion. The problem is that we have no way to accurately predict this energy density. QFT which attributes this energy density to the...

Don't look back at previous drafts. They were rejected for a reason. Please look and ask questions about my current SoPs. According to QFT the energy density in a vacuum is one Planck unit. If we attribute this energy density in the vacuum to the acceleration of space we calculate the density...

The latest was a step back I understand. How about the one prior the latest. I know the 599 word one isn't good but I did model it on the advice you all gave me. To be clear it being bad was due to me misunderstanding all of your advice. My problem is Idk why that 599 word one in which I tried...

I do want to take everyones advice and I'm not here to waste anyone's time. I'm quite amazed how much difficulty I'm experiencing writing this. It's been three weeks and I went from a horrible SoP to a slightly less horrible one. Is it because I go into much detail about my research? Not enough...

Are you saying I have made no progress in my SoP.

@micromass do you feel that in my latest draft I went into to much detail about my research. I did that because I wanted to show how I was creative.

I just got an idea. I should emphasis how I knew nothing about Nonlinear dynamics when I began my research. But after three semesters I knew more about it then the professors in the department. Is that what you mean?

The perturbation part was from a university website saying I need a strong hook.

Because I wasn't getting replies to this thread anymore I moved on to academia sub reddits for. They all said it was boring and I didn't talk enough about my research. I will say though that I trust this forum far more then any physics or grad school sub reddits. The perturbation part I got from...