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not an insider, but apparently it's almost impossible to get funding in (theoretical?) physics outside outside of quantum mechanics.
by dtech 4y ago
not an insider, but apparently it's almost impossible to get funding in (theoretical?) physics outside outside of quantum mechanics.
- scythe 4y agoI assume that what you're trying to say is that it's almost impossible to get funding in fundamental physics outside of string theory, which at least might be true. There are lots of people with funding in theoretical (or at least computational) physics who aren't doing quantum mechanics, like nearly all of astrophysics, much of acoustics and fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, etc.
- varjag 4y agoString theory has been out of fashion for at least a decade.
- Thrymr 4y agoWhat part of modern theoretical physics is "outside" quantum mechanics? General relativity, sure, but arguably the most interesting problem there is how to make it compatible with quantum mechanics.