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:( i am doomed

I'm in a similar situation, but two of my physics professors have retired. :(

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I somehow ended up double majoring in physics and philosophy. Chance did not let me become an engineer. What's up with that?

I'm really wishing I had done some type of Engineering or Computer Science right now rather than Physics. At least I see jobs requiring those degrees. I could pretend that jobs are out there for me and have some hope. I only see physics degrees required if they are masters or phds. Right...

I've had hard time over the years with accepting the idea of "block" time. I've been attracted to the view that each new moment is a creative advance of the universe. The block view seems to leave us with everything already there and so nothing new truly emerges. Of course, this is just an...

Physics will likely declare in the future that physics itself is just not possible. Sorry to disappoint everyone. I know how much you love to manipulate your imaginary universes with your advanced mathematics and injected wackiness. God is laughing at us.

I was really into the Elegant Universe and read several other popular physics books thereafter. I came to Penrose's Road to Reality and decided that it was time that I actually learned the math behind the physics. It also ended some torment over my undecided major status. For various reasons...

i feel pretty useless because i don't know any CS.

Well, maybe you can be a good philosopher of physics and others can use your work to guide the direction they take with their mathematics, but I don't really think you can be a theoretical physicist without being good at math.

i think it's a glorious way for this little planet Earth to end. we either move forward and risk death or stagnate. there is only one option as far as i am concerned...

Well... Branes are not what I'm thinking about unless a 3D string is equivalent to a 3 brane. I've read the first half of Zwiebach, but I might have forgot about the part where he said a 1 D brane was a string. Anyway, I'm thinking kind of a real string with width, height and length but...

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to formulate a string theory with a 3D string rather than a 1D string. Has this been done? Is this much more complicated?

I had a tougher time with Calc III than with DE.

E&M has definitely been the toughest undergrad course I've had. I only have QM left. I think it required a lot more studying and working out of problems than I put into it, more so than any class I've had so far. Anyway, it wasn't one of my favorite courses, though I can see how it would...