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When physicists can't be employed as physicists they go into finance right? So all of the unemployed string theorists will go into finance?
by zitterbewegung 11y ago
When physicists can't be employed as physicists they go into finance right? So all of the unemployed string theorists will go into finance?
- jessriedel 11y agoMost of them already have. The number of strings postdoc has already slowed to a trickle.
- johncolanduoni 11y agoAs a physics grad student, the phenomenon I've seen is people simply avoiding focusing on string theory in favor of greener (but still in physics) pastures. I suspect most of the working string theorists who had a stable job to begin with are tenured and will keep doing what they are. Personally I'm not sure how to feel about all of it; although the contribution of string theory to physics can most certainly be argued, mathematics has definitely benefited from its development.