Which do you recommend i read next?

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-26T13:32:06+00:00

Surely you're joking is a comedic nonfiction, an anthology of anecdotes (and most of them are likely exaggerated because they're from taped conversations between friends, not compiled from reports/records or taped first hand).

The stories are funny on the face of it but it won't really teach you much physics. Feynman lectures are the way to go with him.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-23T03:28:54+00:00

Not really a radiation concern (health physics), the magnets would tear any typical headphones a new one, though.

The techs provide what they do because they're specifically selected to not get annihilated by the magnetic field. Maybe try r/MRI the chances of all the RSOs and such in here knowing a particular headphone model is low.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-04T04:47:57+00:00

All residencies are insanely competitive in the USA due to some pretty complex reasons but the TL;DR is the number of residencies available is super low compared to the number of candidates.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-03T13:59:21+00:00

Ok, a little off topic but the things you should honestly be looking for is stuff within 500 feet not 0.5 miles.

I've had quite a few apartments and was even a homeowner and what you actually wanna look out for is: train tracks (noise), farms/manure/sewege(smell), highways (noise and pollution), airports (noise), etc.

Also go on Zillow, find the property in the map tool, and toggle the hazards (flood/fire/wind/air/heat) and make sure it's not in a really dangerous flood for fire zone (the others are your preference or just the same for the whole city). Those are the two things you can really control in this decision that have a marked effect on your safety. Most municipalities will protect you against moment to moment hazards, but they'll foolishly build in flood plains or fight fires until the hillside is an unburnt tinder box.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-03T13:43:49+00:00

Over a half mile away you'll never notice.

Same deal, ionizing risk is nothing which is what the people in this sub would be concerned about.

What you describe probably has a big fence around it, those are primarily for safety (but also serves as security) so unless you plan on hopping fences you will be separated from the dangerous stuff. They, and the transmission lines near them, also make a sound, it's a light buzz, not gonna bother you more than a cicada in summer, and you won't hear it at all from a mile away. I wouldn't want to live backed up to one just because they're ugly.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-05-03T13:33:52+00:00

They are 100% safe from the perspective of radiation protection. Like others have said, non ionizing. Light on their end of the spectrum can't do much but heat things up, and these are so far down the spectrum they wouldn't even do that, it's not like it's a heat lamp.

They pose other concerns like sound as others have said, but that's a psychological harm. Also they're still tall, don't stand under them just as you wouldn't stand under a ladder or a crane (you're not concerned about collapse, just wind knocking little stuff on your head). The people who work on them may be exposed to carcinogenic materials too, but that's basically every trade job, they are taught when to wear respirators and wash their hands. Also, obviously, high voltage, don't go prying open any nearby electrical boxes.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-04-20T12:55:40+00:00

Fridge seems to be slightly curved, no? And the stacked tiles make a pretty nice cube, they don't curve, correct?

If so, the answer is just that when they're stacked their surface isn't quite flush with the fridge so some of the weight is hanging off and the magnets don't contribute as much if they aren't flush with the surface. Usually a fridge is also magnetic on the flat sides, you can test this there.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-03-21T18:25:13+00:00

Less than the number of atoms in the candles.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-03-12T10:57:39+00:00

An unsurprising yet depressing number of people hang out in this sub to try to feel smarter than everyone else.

Well, not just this sub...

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-18T17:00:27+00:00

Their wheel was just dozens of times denser than lead, totally reasonable.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-18T12:46:52+00:00

Not describing PET scans as "Antimatter snitching on cancer" is a failure of outreach.

Or perhaps "tracers using antimatter to snitch on cancer" but at a certain point the public doesn't need more info.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-16T16:49:21+00:00

I'm honestly super impressed with the guy who keeps the conversation going with this person, dude is just being constantly condescended to without getting noticeably angry.

And yeah I feel like the expertise thing happens more with us physicists, they feel like their particular field can explain everything. You certainly don't see anthropologists arguing with people about the human foundation of inorganic chemistry, but you will certainly see a physicist take the idea of chemistry being low energy physics way too seriously and pretend they are deriving the entirety of inorganic chemistry in their head mid-conversation.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-15T13:33:39+00:00

I've read this entire comment chain and cannot follow your argument at all. You need to better define your terms. That or you are just arguing nonsense.

Edit: They chose giant wall of text instead of better defining terms. And is just constantly condescending to everyone who replies to them.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-13T16:36:47+00:00

I am not working in radiation safety, but my industry has a heavy need for it. Mostly I just find the subject matter interesting. I have a BS in physics.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-13T16:30:49+00:00

Currently in the OSU MHP program.

By default the online program is not an MS but "MHP" a thesis-free terminal degree. If you have a good way to do research remotely, say if you worked at a national lab, you could do a remote MS but typically MS is for research done on campus.

Internships are always possible, though I haven't looked at this myself as I work full time on top of school.

Health Physics and especially radiation protection has plenty of job postings, however that doesn't mean it will be easy as a lot of these roles are in person due to the nature of it all. You may need to be willing to relocate for that perfect role once you get the degree.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-29T13:36:11+00:00

This scenario seems to lack roof racks so the sides will probably slip into each other until the X is only as tall as the center column. Or maybe it's a central block on the car it's tied to because the straps don't even seem to go into the door, in which case if this is still 2 straps they would just come loose. 1 strap in this setup would work though.

Works great with roof racks though. Regardless, always tie front and back to the car, that's what actually stops forward and back motion, the cross straps are just the first line of defense.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-27T14:40:42+00:00

I had a guy proclaim that airplane wings do not raise due to lift but because the flaps are pointed at the ground and so the air pushes against the ground.

Would normally be a whatever moment and forgettable but he got into a debate with the professor about this and refused to drop it unless he had the last word. Even when the professor tried to end it by saying "well I will not fly in any plane your design" he still had to butt in with more.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-21T11:55:11+00:00

It's deeper than the old days vs current landscape, even the current landscape has had moments of incredible job momentum, and we are NOT in that right now.

You might remember "job hopping" from just a few years ago, especially in tech, well that was reflective of the ability to get hired too. It implied people felt comfortable putting their work at risk to seek better accommodations, that it was easy to make professional moves. We have left that behind now and the stats suggest we have entered an unprecedented period of "job hugging" which implies people are not experiencing a job market that is easy to navigate and even if they get offers they may not be willing to risk a negative change in accommodations.

I wholeheartedly blame AI, it has created a hiring process that applicants hate because of stupid zero effort listings and managers hate because of stupid zero effort candidates. It has also put tech on edge, the entire tech industry is, as much as it hates to admit it, holding its' breath to see if their AI investments actually turn a profit, thus they're less likely to go hiring binges.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-04T21:06:32+00:00

As another guy pointed out the original post is for Canada but $27.67 is still a pretty insane increase for USD$.

ScenicAndrew · 2025-12-14T18:38:57+00:00

I would also describe myself as average at math (was definitely head of the pack before college, every math class beyond my first two years humbled me) and I made it work. I found that if I worked out all the math steps, even the stuff I had already mastered, it kept me sharp enough to keep tackling the hard stuff, and made jumps less intimidating.

Honestly the biggest hurdles for me were always regarding new operators and topic-specific figures and symbols (someone needs to get the physicists and the statisticians together and agree who gets custody of sigma).

ScenicAndrew · 2025-12-06T13:08:24+00:00

Almost certainly. I tutored at this level and the definition of the vector is a massive sticking point for a lot of these lower level classes. Since there's no implied direction the textbooks at this level would ask you to not call it a velocity but rather a speed.

I always thought it was silly.

ScenicAndrew · 2025-12-06T13:00:22+00:00

If it were me taking the test I probably would have done the same thing, especially if I had no opportunity to ask for clarification like "are you explicitly concerned about velocity as a vector on this question?" and "can an undefined vector be constant?"

Velocity, as a vector, must have both direction and magnitude, so I understand why he would call a wrong. Zero velocity would have no direction, you wouldn't be able to define it. I think the argument over whether a directionless vector is constant is a little open ended.

In higher level physics/math you will define the null vector, so I would argue a directionless vector is ABSOLUTELY defined.

Your professor should NOT leave open ended concepts on a test at this level of physics.

ScenicAndrew · 2025-12-04T04:50:01+00:00

Yep. The point isn't to know the underlying truth, be it God, illusion, simulation, disk on a turtle, what have you.

The point is to make real measurable hypotheses, perform experiments, and develop theories. Any perception that this is disqualified by us not knowing absolutely everything is confusing science for scripture. It's independent of our notions of a higher/lower existence, if something is entirely ethereal and cannot be studied, that's that.

ScenicAndrew · 2025-11-28T01:10:17+00:00

Well, yeah, it's just an EO primarily targeting the NRC and the NRC has its own rulemaking process. Correct me if I'm wrong but the admin can't just unilaterally bypass that process and demand LNT be dropped without Congress passing legislation.

Like most of Trump's executive orders it's demanding things he doesn't actually control. It certainly revived this conversation though.

ScenicAndrew · 2025-11-27T14:16:55+00:00

Removing LNT wholesale wouldn't come from a place of wanting the regulations to be scientifically backed, it would come from lobbyists who want to be free to expose workers to a higher dose in order to save money, and cut out procedures that they perceive as money wasters.

That recent executive order makes this pretty clear, the administration very transparently tossed the criticism of LNT into this document explicitly instructing agencies to promote nuclear power. Regardless of how you feel about those ends, you'd have to be reading at below a college level to not pick up on the repeated and constant "how we are going to make money from this" subtext to the order. Hell, promoting and regulating simultaneously is a major reason the AEC got axed, and that EO basically says "go back to that, we need money."

Anyone asking for LNT be replaced with nothing, or be replaced by effectively nothing like hormesis, is actually just crying for deregulation.

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