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It takes a decade or more of continuous professional effort (treating successful undergraduates as professionals) and mentorship to become conversant. Some of
by ISL 6y ago
It takes a decade or more of continuous professional effort (treating successful undergraduates as professionals) and mentorship to become conversant.
Some of it is acumen, some is community, and a lot of it is time.
People can easily ask the same of experts in other technical fields and arts.
- blueprint 6y agoIt takes 10 years of post-undergrad professional or academic work to become "conversant" in physics? Isn't that the undergrad GR and supporting math courses, themselves, generally? Or are you referring to a level of keeping up with the latest modern theory?
- ISL 6y agoI meant the combined study of undergraduate and graduate theoretical physics, to be conversant at the level of the arXiv preprint.