Learning Theoretical Physics on My Own – Excited to Connect

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Hey everyone!

I’m Nafay, a hopeless physics addict who spends way too much time scribbling wave functions on napkins and arguing with myself about interpretations of quantum mechanics (currently team "Shut up and calculate," but Copenhagen still haunts my dreams).

Since formal university isn’t an option for me right now, I’ve taken the DIY route—turning my room into a chaotic library of Griffiths, Landau & Lifshitz, and way too many arXiv preprints. My current obsessions:

Quantum Weirdness: Trying to really understand entanglement without collapsing into a superposition of confusion.

Math Overload: Battling through Sakurai’s QM while muttering "Why didn’t I learn group theory first?"

Late-Night Thought Experiments: Debating whether a self-taught physicist in a closed system can ever achieve eigenstate nirvana.

I’m here to geek out over path integrals, commutation relations, and why the heck renormalization works ("I’d tell you a joke about the Pauli exclusion principle, but you probably wouldn’t find it funny.").

Looking forward to learning from you all—please excuse any moments where I accidentally reinvent something that was already solved in 1927
 
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Nerd Na said:
Quantum Weirdness: Trying to really understand entanglement without collapsing into a superposition of confusion.
Weirdness? What weirdness?
Nerd Na said:
Math Overload: Battling through Sakurai’s QM while muttering "Why didn’t I learn group theory first?"
Don't worry, Sakurai never learned it either.
 
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