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Yeah but the more advanced fields of physics like quantum mechanics are way harder than anything in chemistry. It's actually a good analogy though, they are pre
by LordHumungous 12y ago
Yeah but the more advanced fields of physics like quantum mechanics are way harder than anything in chemistry. It's actually a good analogy though, they are pretty similar in difficulty at the beginner through intermediate levels, but once you get into the advanced stuff they begin to differentiate.
- chimeracoder 12y ago> Yeah but the more advanced fields of physics like quantum mechanics are way harder than anything in chemistry. That's a very loaded statement. If this were a forum for the physical sciences (as opposed to computer science), that would probably be analogous to saying "Android is easier to develop for than iOS" or "Java is easier than C#" (both of which would easily start flamewars on HackerNews)
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- LordHumungous 12y agoYeah, still... it's true.
- falsestprophet 12y agoA lot of chemistry is quantum mechanics. What is a "less advanced" field of physics anyway?
- LordHumungous 12y agoAn example of a less advanced field of Physics than quantum mechanics would be Newtonian mechanics, such as is taught to college freshmen and sophomores. At least it seemed a lot easier to me.
- falsestprophet 12y agoThat isn't a field of physics that's a high school textbook.
- smeyer 12y agoThere are people doing very advanced and difficult things in classical mechanics, even if they aren't the problems or topics that show up in a freshman physics course. There are also trivially easy quantum mechanics courses out there, so even if you are going to rank fields of physics by how "advanced" they are, I don't think going off the order they're taught to undergrads is reasonable.