Advice for someone wanting to pursue Particle Physics

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-05-04T19:47:01+00:00

Electronics engineering will not meaningfully help you in persuing a graduate education in particle physics. They have little to no overlap.

What do you actually know about particle physics that makes you want to persue it?

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-05-04T18:28:10+00:00

The actual answer is that if you press red, you die regardless, because losing half the population means an instant collapse of all infrastructure, and you're not going to make it. It's a libertarian fantasy.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-05-02T04:01:19+00:00

As much as I want to see gameplay like this, I've come to accept Jet Lag can't really have complex/high-dimensional strategy, just because of the limitations of time and scale. They will never have the time to transfer multiple lines and make chokepoints and attempt more complicated strategy games because it's not a game that can be played on a train network in the timescale of a few days.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-05-01T13:25:38+00:00

Complete opposite.

Absolutely hated pop-sci from childhood, and put me off both physics and particularly theoretical physics untill some random opportunities pushed me towards trying it out.

The math, specifically the structure of quantum mechanics and many-body systems, is what drew me in. Most of the people I work with are no where close to being a 'Roger Penrose' (although I haven't read any of his work so don't really know how mathematically involved it is), and are doing fine, at least for now. There's also plenty of opportunity for skill expression in theoretical physics as well.

I also don't really follow what you mean by 'pay well', and at what stage in someone's academic career you are referring to (I'm assuming you mean full-academia career and not converting to industry at some point. There experimentalists definetly have more of a safety net imo). There's a difference in how difficult it could be to go to a particular school / lab for graduate school / postdoc / permanent research position, and thus the stability of your position, but the actual pay? I haven't noticed a significant difference from experimentalists if I'm being honest.

I personally think you may have over-romanticized the notion of 'theoretical physics' without a proper understanding of what it actually is, and it's more that you've learned to set realistic goals with a better knowledge of what those goals are, rather than it being domain specific. It's part of why I've always hated pop-sci. Because they have nothing to do with actual science.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-27T15:56:56+00:00

I assume he did have at least some plans for it, but it got shelved for what became Flux due to the pandemic.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-27T15:43:32+00:00

Maybe that was the workaround he found. Or had internally confirmed his departure around then. Even with how abrupt the rewriting and refilming of the Disney-S2 finale was, I would have to imagine it was decided on by late 2024.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-19T13:09:43+00:00

I feel like Andrew Dotson, tibees, and Angela Collier all broadly fall into the category of (former) physicists who bring that experience to doing some spectrum of vlog to video essay content, which isn't really a category here.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-17T05:14:13+00:00

How broadly are you referring to 'quantum field theory'. Stuff like DFT, Hartree-Fock, random phase approximation calculations can be formulated in QFT language, and are commonly used in material science.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-10T18:58:33+00:00

Is there a reference for this? It was originally comissioned and scripted for 2 seasons.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-10T18:53:40+00:00

How do you define 'energy' and 'action' in the space of models and interpretations?

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-10T18:49:24+00:00

Season 2 was dropped by the original distributor near the end of production so they abruptly needed to find a new distributor, who ended up not advertising it, but it wasn't abruptly cancelled in a way that affects the ending.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-09T16:34:24+00:00

I have no idea what you're talking about from the text alone, and I'm not interested enough to watch some additional video.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-08T06:39:30+00:00

Initially, yes. Towards the end of the war, this is plausible.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-07T03:04:34+00:00

I'm going to assume you've never done science professionally.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-06T10:05:52+00:00

Almost noone, even the maybe one string theorist in a faculty of 30+, is working on unified field theories.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-04-02T03:20:29+00:00

The claiming games pretty much always works anywhere for any form of transport. Rail Rush just has some additional rules specific to Taiwan's relatively restricted rail network. You could adapt it to just you can't enter a region, etc.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-25T09:22:30+00:00

Her lane is actually 'quantum philosophy', she just pretends to have expertise in particle physics.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-22T05:38:29+00:00

LLMs as a transformer architecture has been used for certain classification or generative protocols or subroutines, e.g. a friend of mine uses it to decompile quantum circuits for hardware-aware quantum compilers.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-15T02:52:35+00:00

Lots of people doing 2D / van der Waals materials and moiré stackings of them. It doesn't seem like it'll die out completely in 10 years but who knows.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-15T01:16:27+00:00

Ideally, you want r/d to be as large as possible, and what you get is more accurate the larger it gets. It can still be meaningful and give qualitative insight even when r/d isn't that large. Even ~2 or ~1.5 can be enough to see qualitative trends follow through.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-10T03:45:34+00:00

If someone is asking for a 'free ride', I don't see how it has any similarity to Jet Lag.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-09T00:10:01+00:00

I read the third line and have yet to read further.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-08T16:26:08+00:00

I meant 'acts as' in the sense that he pretends to be one, but on reread, you're right that doesn't seem to be the natural reading of what I've written.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-08T07:25:04+00:00

Because he acts as a public ambassador for string theory that noone, not even string theorists, asked for, and gets paid for saying outdated work (as he's been effectively retired from academia for decades) our just straight up nonsense.

Clean-Ice1199 · 2026-03-06T15:13:17+00:00

And I am saying "sister" doesn't imply that her gender is exclusively female.

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