RE: An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics - Carroll & Ostlie
March 3, 2015 at 2:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2015 at 2:53 pm by Alex K.)
(March 3, 2015 at 2:39 pm)TubbyTubby Wrote: Having said that, I may well find other areas that interest me more so who knows. Wish I'd done it earlier but astrophysics never really came up in my school careers talks. I'm just a bit jealous of folks that have a job in these fields. Makes electrical engineering seem very dull.Well, have a stab at it, it can't hurt to check out whether you like it! If you have an engineering degree, you should know the necessary maths as well, at least for getting into it a bit.
To be fair though, I think electrical engineering is pretty interesting as well, almost any research topic can appear very dull when one views it up-close from the perspective of a "practitioner" who needs to get into the boring tedious details. In reality, doing research in star formation probably also involves weeks of debugging horrible code, for example. Everything always does
But at least it's code for star formation!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
