Anyone going to or is majoring in physics?

[seat]

I was thinking specifically astrophysics, elementary-particle physics or something along that line.

 

[kspchemist]

When I was in college, I minored in Physics.

 

[DO/JD]

Seat,



I almost majored in physics before I went into medicine. Best wishes.

 

[Lymph]

Not that crazy. Just Chemistry crazy

 

[freak_of_today]

I might major in physics..... I wanna end up teaching it so I might need to study it at uni perhaps...!

 

[Yamialpha]

I intend on majoring in physics. I'd like to work on the Theory of Everything as well as the Theory of Quantum Gravity. I also often ponder such subjects.

 

[Sgent29]

Umm.. If you solve the Theory of Everything -- Quantam Gravity will pretty much take care of itself.

 

[Yamialpha]

Well I'd like to broaden the aspects of Quantum Gravity, although I suppose to any extent it would still have to include the four forces.

 

[seat]

If we find a solution to the theory of everything, we still have to make a connection from quantum physics to Newtonian physics (since they both have different rules).

 

[Sgent29]

The way current research is going, your going to have make that connection before you can solve the TOE. See last months Scientific American.

I admit I am not a physicist so I very well may be behind, just a former engineer with an abiding interest and someone who has had intro quantom physicis at the college level

 

[davidshane]

I'm in my third year as a physics major at a public university in Missouri. It's positively a great field to be going into if only for the sheer fun. (Providing you like or want to like or are at least good at mathematics.) It's good for opening your mind to just what science is and how it works and at teaching you how to think. You can get quite a range of opinions - one of the professors here has wrote a book debunking ideas of intelligent design and just a few doors down the hall is the office of one professor who is a Christian that thinks the universe is 6,000 to 12,000 years old. Anyways, I'm not sure what else to write, let me know if you have any questions.

 

[Yamialpha]

I'm in my third year as a physics major at a public university in Missouri. It's positively a great field to be going into if only for the sheer fun. (Providing you like or want to like or are at least good at mathematics.) It's good for opening your mind to just what science is and how it works and at teaching you how to think. You can get quite a range of opinions - one of the professors here has wrote a book debunking ideas of intelligent design and just a few doors down the hall is the office of one professor who is a Christian that thinks the universe is 6,000 to 12,000 years old. Anyways, I'm not sure what else to write, let me know if you have any questions.

Which public university is that?

 

[davidshane]

Truman State University.

 

[Deamiter]

I am also a physics major, in my final year of study. Unfortunately, I plan to go into something like medical physics which I think I would enjoy more than the theoretical physics that pulled me into the field.

 

[Dirac]

I was thinking specifically astrophysics, elementary-particle physics or something along that line.

By all means go for it if you enjoy it. As someone else said, if you are no good at maths, don't even bother, you'll hate physics at degree level. I'm doing maths and physics at the University of London. It is very interesting, but the maths can become a bit cold. It's just so abstract at degree level. I'd also really recommend reading some history/political books and keeping up with the news. While those taking humanities, history, law degrees etc. automatically gain lots of 'real-world' knowledge from their chosen area of study, as a physicist/mathematician you don't get this 'free' information as part of your degree course. You have to work much harder to gain an all round knowledge of the human world and its happenings. People are what matter in the end, not maths.

 

[Dirac_Notation]

I did major in physics. Now I'm a physics professor. Before I started college, I was interested in all the particle physics/GUT variety of physics too. I ended up getting more interested in condensed matter physics, though. Best wishes!

 

[JVD]

Seat...my daughter is currently applying for colleges...hoping to major in astrophysics.

Why!! Are you in college now?

 

[thwap]

I'm torn between studying either physics or biology at university. Both seem interesting to me, particularly the more "abstract" aspects of physics such as quantum mechanics, and also biology at the cellular and chemical levels.

Since I'm equally attracted to both, I wonder which degree would present the greatest prospects for the future?