What do you want to be? Question

[BobG]

It is because physicists are far superior intellectually than biologists in most respects, what with the formulas and the abstract concepts and the funky hair and the dangerous experiments and the schizo personnalities [Prof. Frink noise] ...

[fetal position under a "PF" banner, anticipating a gruesome physical reply]

You should be cowering somewhere. You should have read the post in General Discussion about tribdog's leg injury before saying something like that to Moonbear. People in the biology field (and the medical field for that matter) are scary.

Worse yet, go to some of the sites Moonbear links to.

 

[Gonzolo]

Hopefully no one takes that seriously. I'm having a boring day, and needed somekind of action. All my respect to biologists. I just find it funny when people argue over who's smarter than who.

 

[mattmns]

Majoring in math education sucks for this. First all the poly sci, sociology, english, etc. majors look at you weird for majoring in math. And then you have all the physics, engineering, pure/applied math, etc. majors thinking you are an idiot for going into education.

 

[JasonRox]

It is because physicists are far superior intellectually than biologists in most respects, what with the formulas and the abstract concepts and the funky hair and the dangerous experiments and the schizo personnalities [Prof. Frink noise] ...

[fetal position under a "PF" banner, anticipating a gruesome physical reply]

You are dissing a man I have utmost respect for...

Isaac Asimov

He was a biochemists and he was intelligent! He was the vice-president of Mensa!

 

[Moonbear]

You should be cowering somewhere. You should have read the post in General Discussion about tribdog's leg injury before saying something like that to Moonbear. People in the biology field (and the medical field for that matter) are scary.

Worse yet, go to some of the sites Moonbear links to.

He's lucky I didn't see that earlier in the day. I was having a very bad day today and might have had to use him as a "volunteer" to re-train some folks who screwed up the neurosurgeries for an experiment of mine.

Though, I think I have a new answer now for people who ask me where the brains in the freezer come from. I used to answer "annoying students," but now I think I'll revise that to, "physics students who make fun of biology."

 

[cronxeh]

As a joke goes:

/*Physics Class

As a premed student at Washington University in St. Louis, I had to take a
difficult class in physics. One day our professor was discussing a
particularly complicated concept. A student rudely interrupted to ask
"Why do we have to learn this irrelevant stuff?"

"To save lives." the professor responded quickly and continued the
lecture.

A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. "So how does
physics
save lives?" he persisted.

"It helps keeps the idiots like you out of medical school," replied the
professor.
*/

Every science field (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc) are interrelated and intervowen with mathematical principles and fundumental laws of nature and economics. By various mixes of sciences with practice you get engineering fields, medical doctors, various researchers and scifi writers. It isn't important what 'sociology, english, etc' majors think about you if you are majoring in mathematics. There is only one fundumental language and society of laws out there, written in math, and presented in various sciences. Study all the things you want and at the end if you study hard enough you'll enjoy the education you get as it expands your mind and makes you more perceptive of your surroundings

 

[munky99999]

well that's not true really.

Fluid dynamics which is physics directly relates to how blood flows through the veins.

Lots of things in physics made medicine possible.

Although most of the time, physics is to keep out lesser people.

Again I don't want a doctor who got the bare minimum 55% When we can make it so its 95% minimum.

Still I just don't understand how I like physics so much. I have worked out my motivation, but I am not exactly going the best route to do it.

You see my motivation is interesting. I'm a trekker as you could say. I'm very interested in making and studying devices which star trek inspires. Sonic Shower, Transporter, forcefields, tractorbeam, orbital tethers.

In the last year or so I read in the paper of people of someone attempting to build an orbital tether. I also live near the great lakes and I also read that Canada is making a "Huston" on the great lakes. With that X-plane thing succeeding in like september also, makes it very interesting right now.

I'm only at the beginning of my education though. I expect I will be studying whatever the proffessors or whoever chooses what you will research.

Once I have a lot of experience or PHD or whatever it takes to choose myself. I would study Sonic showers. I think that would be a huge hit. Especially for the space station and such. No waste of water only energy is required.

 

[the_little_guy]

which is better machatronics or nano technology? in your opinion

somebody?

 

[munky99999]

well as for job security, i'd go nanotechnology. FRom what I hear is mechatronics is way to full and chances are they will be cutting a lot.

Nanotechnology has a lot of promise and not a while lot done as of yet. So if you were to start school now for one of them, i'd goto to University of Toronto and study nanotech. I believe that's where they wanted me to go. It was some other place in like hamilton or niagra falls for mechatronics. But simply i don't have the money to be going anywhere.