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andrew0310
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Hello everybody,
I am an undergraduate student studying computer science and I love it, especially Artificial Intelligence. I'm a curious person, so there are a lot of things that I find intriguing. But I sometimes wonder if a physics career would be more interesting, not because I don't like computer science enough, but because I'm also very curious about the Universe and all its mysteries, the nature of reality and how it all works etc.
Now here's the problem: I don't really know how is it like to do theoretical physics research (more precisely, theoretical cosmology research). And I'm sometimes afraid that I am more interested in the ideas surrounding all these mysteries than I'd be in doing research trying to answer them. I liked and did quite well at physics in high school (and at math too), but I found the physical theories, especially the mathematical part, a bit dull, a bit dry. So maybe I'm much more interested in the ideas behind the physical theories than in physics itself.
I guess the question is: what it's theoretical physics or theoretical cosmology research about? what do the researchers in these fields do and what their work consists of, beyond their online talks, conferences and what it looks like to the public eye?
I am an undergraduate student studying computer science and I love it, especially Artificial Intelligence. I'm a curious person, so there are a lot of things that I find intriguing. But I sometimes wonder if a physics career would be more interesting, not because I don't like computer science enough, but because I'm also very curious about the Universe and all its mysteries, the nature of reality and how it all works etc.
Now here's the problem: I don't really know how is it like to do theoretical physics research (more precisely, theoretical cosmology research). And I'm sometimes afraid that I am more interested in the ideas surrounding all these mysteries than I'd be in doing research trying to answer them. I liked and did quite well at physics in high school (and at math too), but I found the physical theories, especially the mathematical part, a bit dull, a bit dry. So maybe I'm much more interested in the ideas behind the physical theories than in physics itself.
I guess the question is: what it's theoretical physics or theoretical cosmology research about? what do the researchers in these fields do and what their work consists of, beyond their online talks, conferences and what it looks like to the public eye?
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