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this site isn't exclusive to theoretical physics. most of the material is broad. It's not until the later topics that it becomes more theoretical: general relat
by officialjunk 12y ago
this site isn't exclusive to theoretical physics. most of the material is broad. It's not until the later topics that it becomes more theoretical: general relativity, super gravity, string theory...
physics may also interest those who don't want to be come any type of physicist, hence the popularity of television shows like Cosmos, etc. for those that want to dive into something a little more technical, but very approachable, there are the feynman lectures, which are freely available online here: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
- jakebian 12y agoI disagree, general relativity is not any more or any less theoretical than, say, electromagnetism.
- officialjunk 12y agoi say this because most the people i know that are doing graduate studies focused on general relativity are in theoretical physics. we're not at the point, technologically, where experimental physics can cover the full range of what general relativity describes. it would be nice to have a black hole in a lab that is not an analogue, though. and one day, we probably will. so, i agree that eventually it will be on par with electromagnetism, but for now it describes a lot that is still very theoretical.
- jakebian 12y agoBut EM as a subject, as its usually taught, is still theoretical. Experimental EM would be better known as either electronics or statistics. You make it sound like theoretical means lacking experimental support, perhaps that is what the word means in, say, politics, but certainly not in physics.