Recent content by Krandor

I have read lots of comments talking about how hard is to get tenure or government-funding research positions. Okay, but how hard is it? Perhaps some statistical info about it? From what I've heard, there are around 6k astronomers in the usa. Let's asume half of them are working in the industry...

First time you see somebody trying to get into physics because of sci-fi? Cant believe that. Its not the only thing that makes me want to get into physics, its just that space travel is the most interesting thing for me. Besides that, there are plenty or other fields that seem interesting to me...

Wow. So astronomers make 100k con average?

Thanks for replying. Well, there are some other fields in physics that seem interesting to me, but not as much as electronics. Anyways, i can still switch to physics after an engineering degree (doing some courses to catch up, of course)

Thanks for the info!

I have done some basic electronics before, and my uncle is an electronics engineer aswell. So i kinda know what I am getting into if i choose electronics. (Unlike physics, environment i know little or nothing about). Thanks for replying

Lol, most of myself came to look for that exact kind of discouragement

Yeah I know. But it's not like they are just made up. Wormholes are "predicted" by relativity for example. And I've read about some scientific papers talking about the plausibility of warp drives

Hey everybody, I'm from Argentina and going to college soon. I'm stuck between physics (mainly for contributing to interstellar travel) and electronics engineering. The thing is, I'd only study physics if there's a slight chance of witnessing warp drive/wormhole technologies in this lifetime...