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Or - many geniuses are party guys - in order to succeed in phys/math, one must become party guy So the ingenious deduction is that geniuses are made at parties:).

You all raise good points. My concern is about the intended goal of "get a PhD and become a physicist at a prestigious university". This is too vaguely formulated job description. If it means becoming eventually a tenured full professor of physics at prestigious university it requires razor...

@Klystron, these are not examples in tune with the thread initiator dreaming of becoming physicist at 'prestigious' university. Realizing such dream is like racing to the top in individual sports discipline, take tennis as an example. Examples you provide could be compared to team sports where...

About role models I would say there are people who are incredibly gifted/talented, don't take them as role models unless you are one of them. If you are not then you have to be extremely focused on your subject giving it much higher priority than social life - unless your social life will be in...

Sure, storage of heat in tanks is used in Solar Thermal. The problem is where the heat is to be used and how much of it is needed. Unfortunately most heat will be produced during the summer when there is no need for heating. From this reason Solar Thermal is used mostly for hot water needs in...

There are PVT (Photovoltaic+Thermal) panels available (just search). These are obviously (significantly) more expensive than PV panels. PVT system should be properly designed: To cool PV panels one has to take out all heat out of them, from typical panel array one would get much more heat than...

Read 'Longevity Diet' by Valter Longo or his original publications.

The only fully satisfactory answer would be an algorithmic one: what are the algorithms the brain uses to produce these properties. That would also make possible implementation in computers. Unfortunately we know next to nothing about the brain algorithms...

Pointing out anything infinite in the universe? It would be very hard to prove it in reality. For example in quantum theory e.g. the charge of 'naked' electron is considered infinite. How this is possible when we see a very small charge? Explanation is that electron is in vacuum and vacuum is...

Not being top expert in this but explanation I heard is that 'naked' electron is considered point particle and its charge is infinite or 'most likely infinite' or at least 'huge' but theory assumes infinite so indeed it is a point singularity. The charge we observe is not the charge of 'naked'...