Locrian said:
Your conclusions were not logical. As I
clearly and carefully pointed out, your restatement of my text differed materially in both scope and magnitude.
I've said it before, but importantly I said it in this very thread:
That should have been the end of the discussion. Instead, this post will be. I will not be replying to you again because you clearly have no interest in honest discourse.
@Locrian, it's unfortunate that you do not wish to reply back to me and that you feel that I have no interest in honest discourse, because nothing could be further from the truth.
In your earlier posts in this thread, you state the following:
"I've retooled myself into a couple of those areas over time, so it can be done,
but the time I spent learning physics was pretty much a waste of time."
Then in your reply to gmax137 questioning your above quote, you made the following reply:
"Because I'm interested in more than one thing, some things are more valuable than others, and I won't get to study every last thing I want to.
And honestly, the general university physics education is pretty sad, for entirely intentional reasons. Physics would have been better as a hobby after college education."
In the bolded statements above, you have stated how much the time you spent in the physics program was (a) a waste of time, and (b) the general university physics education is "pretty sad".
As someone reading these statements (and keeping in mind your previous statements elsewhere on PF), I have reached the conclusion that you feel that a physics degree has essentially no value (i.e. worthless)
unless one goes into a PhD program (which I may not have explicitly stated -- and perhaps I should have for clarity -- but which was implied in my post).
When I posted a reply with the conclusion I've reached, you came back here on this thread and claimed that I am misrepresenting your views and that I am being dishonest. In your rebuttal (which isn't really a rebuttal, as I will explain later), you state the following:
"The reason claiming I think a physics degree is worthless is wrong is because
I don't think a physics degree is worthless. For instance, if one's only goal was teaching high energy physics in academia, I think a physics degree is the best (and nearly only) way to do this.
Do I think it's a mediocre degree? Poorly taught at most universities? Low value for my specific situation? Sure. Worthless? Nope."
In essence, while you don't think a physics degree is worthless, you continued to denigrate a physics degree in terms of its overall value. So in essence you were reiterating what I have concluded -- that outside of academia, physics doesn't hold much value to you. Again, everything I have concluded is consistent with what you've stated.
So in summary, I fail to see how I have misrepresented anything you have stated. If you want to discuss this with me further, please PM me, as I don't want to hijack this thread any further on this topic. Otherwise, this is my last post in this thread.
(Moderators: I feel that my post here is civil and has not violated any PF policies, but please let me know if you have any concerns in terms of my replies).