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I'm curious why the author's clients tend to fit my demographic: "Many of them are retired or near retirement, typically with a background in engineering or a r
by alerax 5y ago
I'm curious why the author's clients tend to fit my demographic: "Many of them are retired or near retirement, typically with a background in engineering or a related industry. All of them are men."
I'm a male engineer in my 40s, and I've recently developed an interest in trying to understand quantum mechanics. I wonder if people like me, seeing the arc of our lives curving closer to its end, develop a natural curiosity about How It All Works/What It All Means.
- a9h74j 5y agoMany things can emerge at different times. > Many of them are retired or near retirement, typically with a background in engineering or a related industry I have heard there is such a thing referred to as "the retiree's patent" -- presumably not fantastically market-worthy, but motivated in part by desire to make a difference or leave a mark.
- sterlind 5y agoI'm a female engineer in my early 30s and I'm very interested in this stuff, to offer a counter-example. I'd be interested in paying a physicist to explain the Scharnhorst effect (predicted travel of photons very slightly faster than c between Casimir plates), and the implications for whether c is a core constant. I can't find much written about this - some papers were published about it in creditable journals iirc, it just hasn't gotten much attention for whatever reason. Something about Hossenfelder rubs me the wrong way though.