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kelly0303
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Hello! I was accepted to one of the top universities in the USA for experimental particle physics, however after one year of going to talks and talking to people I don't think that any major breakthrough will be made in the next 15-20 years at least. By breakthrough I mean Beyond Standard Model physics.
There are still lots of things to be learned about Standard Model and do precise measurements, but I don't really find that exciting and spending my PhD to just put a better bound on SuperSymmetry models, Dark Matter or sterile neutrinos doesn't really attracts me (although I am totally aware of how important these bounds are for Beyond Standard Model searches in long term).
I talked to some professors and I am thinking to switch to condensed matter experiment (I see that lots of major discoveries have been made there in the past decades). Another area that attracts me is AI and I see that more and more fields start to heavily use that in their research. What would you advise me to do? What area of physics (even beyond the ones I mentioned) would be the most promising? What path would you take if you started your PhD now? Thank you!
There are still lots of things to be learned about Standard Model and do precise measurements, but I don't really find that exciting and spending my PhD to just put a better bound on SuperSymmetry models, Dark Matter or sterile neutrinos doesn't really attracts me (although I am totally aware of how important these bounds are for Beyond Standard Model searches in long term).
I talked to some professors and I am thinking to switch to condensed matter experiment (I see that lots of major discoveries have been made there in the past decades). Another area that attracts me is AI and I see that more and more fields start to heavily use that in their research. What would you advise me to do? What area of physics (even beyond the ones I mentioned) would be the most promising? What path would you take if you started your PhD now? Thank you!
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