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Registered Member #32
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Old-style engineers are still alive; it's just that there are a lot of desk jobs sucking people in.
At the radio telescope for my university, there's a guy who's just The Engineer. He designs, builds and maintains all the machinery and technical stuff. That's stuff like controlled motors, drives, cables, software, everything.
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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:47PM
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Simon wrote ...
I'm sorry to disappoint, but all the really cool physics you mentioned involves a lot of slick advanced maths.
Astrophysics doesn't involve much maths and it can take you out to big telescopes and radio arrays, full of expensive equipment. Maybe you can look for something like that.
Perhaps you mean astronomy? I can tell you from being a physics major concentrating in astrophysics and cosmology, all those advanced maths are a prerequisite. I mean shit, the sun *is* a fusion reactor. The exact sequence of reactions was in major doubt until recently(solved by neutrinos changing from one type to another on their way from the sun to the earth: that was a massive simplification)
Uzzors wrote ...
EastVoltResearch wrote ...
Personally, i wouldn't wish engineering on my worst enemy these days. If i could do it over again, i certaintly wouldn't be an engineer.
What would you choose then? I was thinking engineering myself, but if it's as drab as you say... But who does the engineering if everyone is in administration?
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Ben wrote ...
Perhaps you mean astronomy? I can tell you from being a physics major concentrating in astrophysics and cosmology, all those advanced maths are a prerequisite. I mean shit, the sun *is* a fusion reactor. The exact sequence of reactions was in major doubt until recently(solved by neutrinos changing from one type to another on their way from the sun to the earth: that was a massive simplification)
They call themselves astrophysicists and I guess some of them are astrophysicists in the sense you mean. They're mostly "applied astrophysicists" I suppose. You're right in that "astronomer" is probably a safer term.
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