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Replusz
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Dear All,
I am a second year Natural Sciences (the course incorporating the Physics courses) student at the University of Cambridge.
I definitely want to specialize in Theoretical Physics next year, but the years spent at University, and the time in the vacations between terms, seems so long.
I feel like I am missing out on something, that I haven't come up with anything original yet. I am not saying I am the smartest student in my year - this is most probably not true. But I WANT to uncover some secrets of the world we live in. Even if just small ones for the time being. I know it would be futile to attempt to unify gravity with the other three forces for a bachelor student. That is not the point. I am looking for something that I can realistically tackle and solve (mostly) by myself.
My question would be: is there any problem you could recommend me to think about? Something that might take weeks to figure out, but could realistically be the very first small secret I uncover, theory I create? I mean something that no one has ever described before me. (I googled "unsolved physics problems", but the suggestions on the internet are all extremely advanced).
I know that most of the 'cool' Physics stuff is in highly specialized fields, but even classical dynamics has only been here for a few centuries, surely not everything has been 'discovered'? As an example I could name Feynman, who came up with his theory of rotating discs in a café, or even his sprinkler. The idea could be as simple as these as long as there is no theoretical background for it yet, and is not entirely trivial (like something falling down in a vacuum), but also not extremely complicated (like something falling down in air - turbulence).I would be very, very grateful for any suggestions you could give me in this matter.
Thanks :)
I am a second year Natural Sciences (the course incorporating the Physics courses) student at the University of Cambridge.
I definitely want to specialize in Theoretical Physics next year, but the years spent at University, and the time in the vacations between terms, seems so long.
I feel like I am missing out on something, that I haven't come up with anything original yet. I am not saying I am the smartest student in my year - this is most probably not true. But I WANT to uncover some secrets of the world we live in. Even if just small ones for the time being. I know it would be futile to attempt to unify gravity with the other three forces for a bachelor student. That is not the point. I am looking for something that I can realistically tackle and solve (mostly) by myself.
My question would be: is there any problem you could recommend me to think about? Something that might take weeks to figure out, but could realistically be the very first small secret I uncover, theory I create? I mean something that no one has ever described before me. (I googled "unsolved physics problems", but the suggestions on the internet are all extremely advanced).
I know that most of the 'cool' Physics stuff is in highly specialized fields, but even classical dynamics has only been here for a few centuries, surely not everything has been 'discovered'? As an example I could name Feynman, who came up with his theory of rotating discs in a café, or even his sprinkler. The idea could be as simple as these as long as there is no theoretical background for it yet, and is not entirely trivial (like something falling down in a vacuum), but also not extremely complicated (like something falling down in air - turbulence).I would be very, very grateful for any suggestions you could give me in this matter.
Thanks :)