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I am extremely interested in slamming together small bundles of particles at monstrous speeds and being able to decant knowledge of the elementary stages of matter a la the early universe. I am fascinated by the other side of black holes. i want to beckon gravitons from other dimensions into near instantaneous lives in this familiar world. i want to wield all that energy, or at least witness it in person and have all the confidence to interpret its meaning. Since I was very young I assumed I would play a significant and satisfying role in understanding the most abstract and powerful concepts in contemporary culture. By the age of eighteen I was caught up in a wave of distractions as I dropped out of high school and proceeded through three years of drug addiction, homelessness, and character building. I didn't see a clear path to my goals, and chose routines and habits that were violently destructive to my own intelligent extropy. I've spent hundreds of hours hunting for the words to answer questions in my soul regarding the interactions of "things" both physical, conceptual, and in a unified field. So much time that seemed fruitless at the time has come back to me tenfold in trying to understand this reality. As I've trudged out close call addictions to all sorts of mind numbing chemicals I have in recent months been finding my personal growth intellectually to be a most driving motivator. I have an almost intuitive understanding of most of quantum chromodynamics that seems to have been built through a lot of music theory, fractal math, and perturbative analysis study all in time that I could have once self-defeatingly dismissed as a waste. I don't mean to be overconfident- there is a lot I would need to learn and that is where higher education becomes desirable. When I was dropping out of high school I didn't give two shits about scholarships or grants, and now I see why I would bother working a day job and applying for school loans in spare time. I can see a path to a distant goal |
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.. with clarity I've never had the pleasure of experiencing. |
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whoa! |
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i am a particle physicist. im writing my thesis on two loop corrections to neutraliono masses in the MSSM (minimal supersymmetric standardmodel) which will hopefully be tested 2008 at the LHC in geneva. im doing my work at the institute for high energy physics in vienna. incidentally at the moment im busy with the QCD corrections (QCD is contained in MSSM). my diploma thesis, some other work and two (very very) small publications are under schoefbeck.tullner.cc. |
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(those brackets suck) |
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ahhh! intelligent people!!! *runs away* |
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I am extremely interested in slamming together small children at monstrous speeds and getting a decent laugh out of the process. |
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sounds like great fun! ever tried with cricket-players? |
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nice story. you looking for any feedback or just want to share your experiences? :D |
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actually its inspirng not to do drugs or drop out of school :) |
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that's quite interesting but consider the fact for a second that understanding the universe won't get you laid. understanding the universe is sooo overrated, but someone's gotta do it. so, by all means, go ahead. it seems like you're better suited for it anyways |
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hahaha:) |
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Richard Feynman got laid plenty. |
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not by me, he didn't. |
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he's the exception that confirms the rule seriously though, i've got a friend who got a scholarship to study and work at CERN in Geneve for a year. He's cool and smart too, of course. Doesn't get much laid though. But he's ok. |
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i have wasted my life (to date) by getting wasted and fucking girls (not that much of a waste, i know). i am now 28 and am in the process of turning it round, by flogging all my records that i have accumulated over the past 12 years or so and returning to study in september to do a marine biology and oceanography degree. *pats self on the back* i hope you achieve the goal that you are aiming for, it seems a bit over my head though. but i guess everything is until you know a little bit about it. good luck to you (but more to me, i reckon i will need it more than you do). |
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yeah... you could do that or you could kill yourself. i mean, it's not like you get to take your brain with you in the after life, right? or at least i hope not cuz then i'm fucked! |
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happy premium membership! |
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oh thank you i'm glad you noticed tri-guy. yeah phobz is hookin it up whenever you hit 2000 points that's the special prize or when you've been here for over three years, that's the magic prize, which ever comes first hahaha yeah as you can tell by the pic i am very excited. everybody is very excited, over this wonderful thing called LOVE. |
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If your main goal is understanding, then reading is all you need to do; there are so many others that have already and will perform experiments/make theories/etc. that you'll never possibly run out of reading material. If this is the case all you need is a local library, amazon.com and the small percentage of information on the internet that is credible... In my opinion it's best to be a generalist at the beginning, reading many various things... maybe focusing on physics is too narrow already. The reason is that one has to find out what topic, of the VAST body of knowledge out there is worth the most time and effort pursuing. I used to love reading encyclopedias as a book, the ultimate generalist reading. It's just like a very wide scan of all available knowledge to see what is interesting. Though the body of knowledge is vast, it becomes apparent how interconnected everything is and how this body can be categorized into a much smaller number of topics. I have stopped reading for about the past 2 years but after generalizing reading, the things I found most interesting to focus on were evolution and computers mostly; the best authors I found where richard dawkins (ex. selfish gene) and danny hillis (the pattern on the stone). Both have a gift for describing things simply because they know how things work in their field at the smallest level of functional abstraction. |
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holy lord, i check out some of those PDFs and they knocked my brain straight out of my ass. |
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i love physics on a general conceptual level. i like reading books about superstring theory and crap. i hope you become a particle physicist, it is a noble cause. |
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I must be really shallow, because I couldn't give a rat's ass about how the universe came about, or the fundamental nature of matter. Even if all these things were revealed to me, what difference would it make to my life? I've still got the rent to pay, the bills etc, |
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there's spirituality to be found in the mysteries of the universe. you might be content and not bitch about paying your goddam bills all the time, and realize the world doesnt revolve around your goddam bills. |
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angels & demons is a really nice book. |
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It's surrogate activity, as explained well in the unabomber manifesto. We drastically altered the environment we evolved in so replace our innate hunter gatherer behavior with artificial behavior, such as videogame playing or learning about physics, to fit our increasingly alien modern world. My entire life is 99% surrogate and 1% natural. |
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