Whats your area of interest?

Eric_Lee wrote:I major in breathing, minor is walking. Took me my whole life to get to my current skill level!

Nicely-put Eric, as usual My area of interest right now is quantum mechanics.

Chucky wrote:

Eric_Lee wrote:I major in breathing, minor is walking. Took me my whole life to get to my current skill level!

Nicely-put Eric, as usual My area of interest right now is quantum mechanics.

No wonder you're having a tough time. That stuff is freaky!! Nothing exists until we observe it.

Im doing it for my PhD and am coping quite well with it so far. It does seem like it's trying to find an answer to something fir which there's no answer to though, and it's full of approximation equations, but no-one has as yet been able to get that 'ultimate' theory. I find it rather humerous too that the equations we have so far are only accurate for how the Hydrogen atom behaves, and even then only in it's singly-protonated state (and not deuterium or tritium). Anyway, yes, I'm very happy to be in the area that Im now in. Im learning so much about Chemistry, quantum mechanics, lasers, and physics. One of the guys in my office-area controls his own satellite in orbit.

Chucky wrote:Im doing it for my PhD and am coping quite well with it so far. It does seem like it's trying to find an answer to something fir which there's no answer to though, and it's full of approximation equations, but no-one has as yet been able to get that 'ultimate' theory. I find it rather humerous too that the equations we have so far are only accurate for how the Hydrogen atom behaves, and even then only in it's singly-protonated state (and not deuterium or tritium). Anyway, yes, I'm very happy to be in the area that Im now in. Im learning so much about Chemistry, quantum mechanics, lasers, and physics. One of the guys in my office-area controls his own satellite in orbit.

Oh no!! Don't tell us paranoid guys about the guy in your office controling our thoughts with his satelite!!

But it's great that you are studying that stuff. Maybe you'll be the one to figure it all out and tell me if that cat is really alive or dead in that box. Poor kitty!!

Schrodinger - yeh - it's all about solving his equation, which actually looks easy on face value. What is it again...?

E(Ψ) = H(Ψ)

That's the time-independent one. The time-dependent one is more complex. The modern approximations of this equation generally solve the simpler equation (above) first for electrons - and then solve it for the nucleus - and then join the two.

Kevin

Wow. That brings back memories from physical chem. And a headache!

It's unbelievably interesting to me, and thankfully I don't have tio go too far into it. I'm only learning the basics. Other things I'm studying are computational chemistry, glycosaminoglycans, spectroscopy, and metal ions. In my department at the university, all mouse pads are periodic tables!

Id really like to do something that relates to the history of WW2, I love reading books about it. And people tell me that its good I’m interested in history because I could get a job relating to it. But I don’t want to be a history teacher or get locked up in a tiny room typing papers. I don’t know if it exists, but I would love to be the person out in the field researching things, digging up sunken t-34 tanks from the Oder River and what not. Something like what paleontologists do.

I’m also very interested in Psychology and philosophy, although I don’t think I would make a good psychologist.

@Coati: One of my best period of History apart from Roman Empire time, is the second Worl War. We have such amount of information about it. All is so recent. Don´t you like to be a teacher? Why? I understand, I couldn´t be a teacher of old students. I was really afraid of it. I don´t know what happen where you live but here, someone who studies History only can do a job: TEACHING.

Coati wrote:Id really like to do something that relates to the history of WW2, I love reading books about it. And people tell me that its good I’m interested in history because I could get a job relating to it. But I don’t want to be a history teacher or get locked up in a tiny room typing papers. I don’t know if it exists, but I would love to be the person out in the field researching things, digging up sunken t-34 tanks from the Oder River and what not. Something like what paleontologists do.

I’m also very interested in Psychology and philosophy, although I don’t think I would make a good psychologist.

You're dream can be fulfilled, if you believe that it can be. It can all start right now, if you wish. What shall you do? - Let me tell you: Start looking at arachaeology or history courses in colleges/universities near you and then apply. You can sort out the money issue later - Do'nt ever let money stand in the way of your dreams. You would'nt have to be a teacher either. You could be a pesron doing work in the field (as you've implied), but you could also work in a museum or something like that.