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I despise understanding physics. Should have never chosen that shit for my undergrad. Pop science, sci-fi, and most movies are just miserable to watch the moment they bring up physics in any capacity. Granted I do history now and it isn't much better.
I HATE UNDERSTANDING
I'm sure it happens to most who specialize in something.
I'm an industrial electrician. I roll my eyes to the back of my head every time a video game tells me to like "reset the fuse for the town" or whatever. The verbage characters use is always just a hodgepodge of random ass electrical words, and the equipment is always illustrated not even close to real life.
I know I probably shouldn't expect much close to realism but it's when they try to make it sound real I always get a good chuckle
Like no one ever in the history of the field walks up to a sparking electrical box, "resets" a fuse, and it's all good now.
Anyone intending to write a movie set in space should be required to play 1000 hours of Kerbal Space Program
With just one semester of physics I watched Prometheus and everything science related is so bad that you almost don't notice how stupid the plot is
The physics in The Expanse is far better than the average sci-fi show, but even they believe that blowing up an orbiting satellite will make it immediately rain down onto the planet's (or moon's) surface like an airplane that's lost lift, instead of simply turning into orbital debris.
The worst part of having studied physics is the that everyone and their dog had an opinion on physics.
I spent 4.5 years studying, I know a good bit about some really specific interactions of electrons at middling energies with condensed matter. A little crystallography and band structure stuff, a bit about surface energetic structure and some models we have for explaining surface chemistry.
I do not have an opinion on the structure of space time, and I very much strongly doubt that some fucker who's spent a few hours reading the Wikipedia pages without even taking notes understands anything useful about the standard model.
People don't do this about biology, nobody is like "haha Golgi bodies am I right? Have you every wondered about whether RNA is every incorporated into cell membranes?" it's always physics.
End my suffering.
antivaxers, biohackers, supplement salespeople, the list goes on
I studied biology and biopsychology and now my job is vitamin supplement salesman. I like having a bullshit office job but that extra layer of pretending to go along with bullshit is maddening. Someone asked me if we had anything for whooping cough and like holy shit dude you need a doctor and antibiotics not a dumbass college dropout that barely knows excel.
Ok yeah fair cop. Guess we're all blinkered by our own experiences.
i could've done physics but i became a billionaire instead
There is this great video by Angela Collier about how American billionaires love to pretend to understand physics. There is just something about physics in American society that makes it extra attractive for charlatans
Angela Collier mentioned
She is a treasure, after I read about that moron talking about "vibe physics" I really needed someone to spend an hour enumerating all the specific ways they were being stupid.
Wow buddy, a machine designed to emit affirming text emitted some text that said "who's a smart boy? You are, yes you are!" and it broke your fucking brain in twain.
The billionaires piss me off especially because they have the resources to poach the greatest teachers of our age and just like hang out with them in some tropical paradise getting totally immersed in a field. No pressure to produce useful work, just the ecstasy of following pure curiosity in the company of genius. But nah, even that is too much like actual work for them.
PS It's not just seppos, that shit is everywhere. People think knowing some silly stuff about what a wavefunction is makes you into some sort of god. I got hired to a bunch of jobs I could not do on the basis of being a physics knower and my bosses often wanted me to affirm their dumb Deep Thoughts.
sick band name, what kinda stuff do you guys usually play?
I am a solo act, doing some pretty avant garde stuff. Tends towards screaming based chants at the news and spoken word anti-LLM multi-hour long screeds.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
makes me irrationally angry when people misunderstand schrodinger's cat
I'm not even sure I get it. Isn't he just saying that it's silly to imagine a cat being alive and dead therefore the Copenhagen interpretation must be wrong?^['cause you know, armchair reasoning about the world works great and if we know one thing it's that the universe is preordained to make sense to one species of planes ape]
yup
I studied applied physics. We did the "just shut up and calculate. Do you want to build an electron microscope or have an interesting debate?" interpretation of the wavefunction.