Remember when they buried some scientists deep under the earth in order to look for dark matter ... And they looked for so long that they saw an atom of noble gas decay?
Modern Physics is just finding ways to lie your way into some grant money.
There was a post-doc theoretical physicist I used to talk to when I was in college, and I remember asking him how much he hung out with his colleagues. His answer was never outside of work, because in his experience "all they talk about is grants, and if they aren't directly talking about money, they are indirectly talking about it."
He was working at his third major university at that point, and it held true for those outside his workgroup too. I'm sure he wasn't the only guy like himself, but most weren't. I was in the math department which was next to the physics, so I sometimes ate lunch at tables next to the university's more public physicists: I personally heard a professor (who had a show on Discovery or Science Channel) directly talking about grants!
I did take physics classes from a couple really smart physics professors who did more useful work than the guy who was sometimes on TV, and they came off as low key and humble.
Remember when they buried some scientists deep under the earth in order to look for dark matter ... And they looked for so long that they saw an atom of noble gas decay?
Modern Physics is just finding ways to lie your way into some grant money.
There was a post-doc theoretical physicist I used to talk to when I was in college, and I remember asking him how much he hung out with his colleagues. His answer was never outside of work, because in his experience "all they talk about is grants, and if they aren't directly talking about money, they are indirectly talking about it."
He was working at his third major university at that point, and it held true for those outside his workgroup too. I'm sure he wasn't the only guy like himself, but most weren't. I was in the math department which was next to the physics, so I sometimes ate lunch at tables next to the university's more public physicists: I personally heard a professor (who had a show on Discovery or Science Channel) directly talking about grants!
I did take physics classes from a couple really smart physics professors who did more useful work than the guy who was sometimes on TV, and they came off as low key and humble.