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I originally chose physics because actually, I couldn't really decide what to study. My ultimate goal is to understand what's going on around me - but nearly every discipline helps you to do that.
However, since I seek understanding, I concluded that it would be best to start with the basics - and that is physics (mathematics does not, ultimately, tell me anything about the world - or at least not without physics). I could have also chosen something like philosophy, but ultimately, I am more inclined to the natural sciences because they are easier in the sense that they today heavily rely on mathematics, which is easy in the sense that there is more or less only one correct answer for a sufficiently well posed problem.
Also, when I was still younger, I didn't like social sciences (except for history, which to some degree is not a typical social science) that much, thus to go there wasn't really an option.
However, in recent years I have done more and more mathematics and might end up a mathematical physicist. It's not that I don't like experimental physics - it ultimately tells me whether my theories are correct and thus it is extremely valuable - but I don't want to do it myself the whole day because I find that I understand best what is going on by looking at the mathematics.
But since I, ultimately, seek to know what makes the world go round, I am more or less interested in anything going on anywhere.
If I might ask you the same question: What do you like to do? You ask me about physics, why do you like it?
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 12. Dez 2011 07:20 Titel: |
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Hi MI,
thanks for the answer. I like it because it has impressead me a lot. Physics is the most interesting science because it tells you why the world so is, how it is. And that's for me really interessting. Furthermore I read a lot about Albert Einstein and I am interested in the space and questions like ''How were we created''. Moreover I think Physics is automatically interesting, you don't need to do anything and you are interested, because it belongs to all of us.
Those are ther reasons why I am interested in Physics, but I regret that my mathematical skills are not good enough for studying Physics in the future.
Maybe I can find a different subject, which has at least a little bit Physics and Maths. Do you know one?
Greetings (And I notice that my English is getting better 
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| Verfasst am: 18. Dez 2011 01:17 Titel: |
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| Pablo hat Folgendes geschrieben: |
thanks for the answer. I like it because it has impressed me a lot. Physics is the most interesting science because it tells you why the world is, how it is. And that's really interesting for me. Furthermore I read a lot about Albert Einstein and I am interested in the space and questions like ''How were we created''. I'd omit the "the" before space, but that might be a personal liking. Moreover I think physics is automatically interesting, you don't need to do anything and you are interested, because it belongs to all of us.
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Yes, that's what I meant. Physics is the most fundamental natural science there is, making it the basis for any other. And that's why I like to do it.
| Zitat: | | Those are the reasons why I am interested in Physics, but I regret that my mathematical skills are not good enough for studying Physics in the future. |
As I told you, physics exists on different planes: There is one, which is only theoretic and hence very mathematical, then there is one that is phenomenological and thus tries to bridge a gap between pure mathematics and experiments and then there is an experimental side to it, where the theories are tested. And then there are studies like "technical physicists", which focus even more on the practical/experimental aspect and require even less mathematics.
All of them (except perhaps the latter, which I know nothing about) require a fair amount of mathematics and there are not many subjects where you need more mathematics than in physics, but the mathematics needed varies. In experimental physics, you might find that most of the maths is more or less calculations, which is very different to the very formal and mathematically clear stuff done in mathematical physics. You might be good at getting values out of a theory, but not good at other parts of mathematics.
E.g. if you can master the mathematics at school, you will probably be able to do a lot of the mathematics required in experimental physics, if you understand the physics, so with hard work, you'll probably be able to do experimental physics, but school just doesn't prepare you for the kind of mathematics that you encounter in theoretical physics - there are some hints that you might be good/bad at it (understanding the underlying concepts, etc.), but it doesn't really prepare you at all.
| Zitat: | | Maybe I can find a different subject, which has at least a little bit Physics and Maths. Do you know one? |
As I said, there are some ranges of technical physicists, etc. Then of course, engineering has both physics and maths in it (and there, you'll find many people struggling with the maths) and engineering is a very useful subject as well.
| Zitat: | | Greetings (And I notice that my English is getting better |
Yes, now after having read your texts for some months, I'd agree that you are getting more fluid and especially your sentence structure is getting more natural.
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 18. Dez 2011 13:54 Titel: |
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Hey MI,
thank you man
Did you just learn English in school oder did you do some extra courses? Or things like that? Because your English is quite good and I can't believe that somebody with ''just'' Ab-English speaks in this way.
Tell me your secrets to learn English
Peace 
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| Verfasst am: 18. Dez 2011 20:51 Titel: |
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Just school and my four months stay in England nearly ten years ago and then of course I never stopped reading English books, etc.
But you see that you have made progress since you have come here. I mean, there's still lots to learn and I am sure you are aware of that (although there's also lots to learn for me), but there is progress. And when you keep up with you work, in one or two years time you'll speak reasonbly good English. And at one stage, you'll just see that you just need more practice and more vocabulary - and that comes with experience. I doubt there is "a secret" behind it.
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 19. Dez 2011 15:43 Titel: |
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Thank you for the trust. I also think that my English will get better if I keep learning.
What are your plans for next year? Are you visiting some foreign countries? I am playing with the thought to go to Thailand. It is a big dream of mine to see all the small islands there and see such a fabulous beach. I have dreamt of it since I am a child.
Have you ever been there?
Peace
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Eris
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| Verfasst am: 22. Dez 2011 00:38 Titel: |
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I'm so sorry I haven't replied yet. Studies have kept me terribly busy (and probably always will).
In case it's of interest I will try to post soon.
Until then I wish a merry christmas and a happy new year 2012.
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| Verfasst am: 22. Dez 2011 19:30 Titel: |
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@Eris
| Eris hat Folgendes geschrieben: | I'm so sorry I haven't replied yet. Studies have kept me terribly busy (and probably always will).
In case it's of interest I will try to post soon.
Until then I wish a merry christmas and a happy new year 2012. |
Merry christmas and a happy new year to you, too. I can totally understand your being busy. I myself do not find the time to come here very often, because of all the work. Of course, I'd like to continue the discussion - but take your time!
@Pablo
| Zitat: | | What are your plans for next year? Are you visiting some foreign countries? I am playing with the thought to go to Thailand. It is a big dream of mine to see all the small islands there and see such a fabulous beach. I have dreamt of it since I am a child. |
No, I've never been to Thailand, although it is probably a very interesting country. Maybe some day. I do not have any plans for next year despite studying - at the moment I wouldn't even find the time to make plans, although I plan to go to some summer school ("planning" as in "keeping in mind that I want to plan this once the semester is over").
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Pablo
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| Verfasst am: 10. Jan 2012 23:17 Titel: |
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Jo MI,
What dou you mean with summer-school? Is that a university or just anything for your language? Do you like Munich? How is it there?
Greetings
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Eris
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| Verfasst am: 08. Feb 2012 22:03 Titel: |
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I haven't shown for such a long time, that I not only forgot my own password, I also had to read into the subject we were discussing.
This of course makes me frenetically sorry!
By reading the discussion, I found myself incapable of re-entering the flow and now I must helplessly ask myself out of it!
If you don't mind, would you just explain what you mean when you said, that you seek enlightenment?
I know that by this I'm just throwing the ball back at you without being fertile, but by cross reading our arguments, that one was the most fulfilling!
As far as I'm concerned, studying fulfilles us, but how do you actually find enlightenment, which for me is a big word, which I associate with religion of the eastern part of the world, if you know what I mean: buddhism and such... et cetera.
Well, for now I have to depart again, I might find some time next year... joking!!!
My exams are in march and after that I plan to hang around here a lot, so take care!
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| Verfasst am: 08. Feb 2012 22:57 Titel: |
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March is completely fine. I'm not here at the moment either - for the same reasons.
Right now I'm thinking more about QED Lagrangian and Feynman rules or embeddings of smooth manifolds and parallel transport via Levi-Civita-connections instead of psychology , so let's pick up in March.
Greetings
MI
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Eris
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| Verfasst am: 08. Feb 2012 23:06 Titel: |
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Alright, very fine! Here the same actually: what correlates more with what an less with else and why in what questionnaire and what did Rogers say else than Cattell and who was born before the other and why is the validity more reliable than the objectivity!
So let's do!
Greets
Eris
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| Verfasst am: 11. Apr 2012 21:56 Titel: |
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In case you ever wondered, what interdisciplinary really means... check this:
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Yeah, there's nothing than good old xkcd comics. I didn't remember this one though, thanks for reminding me!
I think the biggest problem about interdisciplinarity is that people just have very different sets of thinking and don't bother to exchange definitions first, thus resulting in situations were everybody thinks they understand the problem at hand yet everybody understands it differently.
The great Richard Feynman in his autobiography "Surely you are joking Mr Feynman" elaborates on this when saying why he refused at one point to attend further interdisciplinary conferences in the area of human sciences.
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MI
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| Verfasst am: 21. Jan 2013 23:31 Titel: |
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Totale Dauermüdigkeit, deshalb unkonzentriert und unmotivert.
Morgens ist mir flau, aber nicht richtig übel. Übergeben musste ich mich zum Glück noch nicht.
Heute Nacht hatte ich einen kurzen, krampfartigen Schmerz im UL. Sind das die Mutterbänder, oder wie das heißt?
Außerdem ich hab immer Durst, was ich gar nicht von mir kenne. Und weil ich dauernd trinke, renn ich alle paar Minuten aufs WC. Voll lästig!
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