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kelly0303
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Hello! I am currently applying for graduate schools in the USA and during my undergraduate career I was mainly involved in Dark Matter research. However, my research focused on testing different models (experimentally or using numerical simulations) and doing some basic calculations, basically working with stuff that's already there. I would like to work on theoretical physics and despite the fact that my work was focused only on certain dark matter models, I can see there are plenty of different models out there, some of them originals some of them variations of old ones. Now I am wondering how realistic is it for someone to come up with an actual new idea in the field (and of course I don't mean Arkani-Hamed or Lisa Randall)? I feel like I am going towards a field where, despite the fact the we have almost no direct experimental evidence, we have so many theories that I won't be able to make a significant contribution. Any advise on this? Thank you!