(October 7, 2022 at 6:25 am)Jehanne Wrote: Fantastic article! Without derailing this thread, it is interesting that one could get a PhD in physics, "have fun for five years, and then...be jobless." That outcome, of course, would feel very real, not to mention, painful.
There’s a story (almost certainly apocryphal, since it’s also told about other people) that Ernest Rutherford was told by his academic advisors to take his degree in mathematics, because everything had already been discovered in physics.
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