What fields have the hardest papers to read?

[Simfish]

So, I've just come across some of Tegmark's cosmology papers, and they're surprisingly readable.

It seems that most astronomy papers are quite readable, assuming that your background includes digital signal processing. In fact, they're far more readable than most of the old graduate school astro textbooks (which cover topics like radiation hydrodynamics or orbit potential theory). Somehow, these obscure topics aren't the hottest part of astro research today.

I'm pretty sure that general relativity is the hardest field. But are there any other fields whose papers are hard to read? I do have to improve my Bayesian statistics knowledge, of course, but the Bayesian statistics in most astro papers isn't that deep.

I'm curious, since I want to know how much farther I have to go.

 

[zhermes]

To name a few:
Quantum Gravity.
String theory or QFT in curved space-times.
The Holographic Principle.
Neutron Star E.O.S., superfluidity, quark-degenerate matter, etc.

 

[Pengwuino]

To name a few:
Quantum Gravity.
String theory or QFT in curved space-times.
The Holographic Principle.
Neutron Star E.O.S., superfluidity, quark-degenerate matter, etc.

PFF, that one's easy. Assume what they're talking about is BS and it's a lot easier to read

 

[ibysaiyan]

To name a few:
Quantum Gravity.
String theory or QFT in curved space-times.
The Holographic Principle.
Neutron Star E.O.S., superfluidity, quark-degenerate matter, etc.

Accretion induced collapse{ I was lost while reading through the paper though I managed to pick up few main points)

 

[FourierFaux]

I'd have trouble with Russian Literature. (Then again, I don't speak Russian)

 

[Chronos]

Stellar hydrodynamics is great fun if brain injury is not an issue..

 

[Pengwuino]

I'm still trying to find a field where I can understand any of the papers.

 

[elfboy]

I'm still trying to find a field where I can understand any of the papers.

then that would be sales & marketing where the goal is to dumb things down to sell to the masses