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You are right about the incentives being aligned a certain way. But, while the justification for the LHC might have been Higgs, what most high-energy physicists (theoretical and ex…

A great lesson one learns as a physicist is that one must develop a new intuition mainly through years of practice. So when you say "It's very frustrating", I interpret it as "this…

That's a valid argument but still a bit strange. One could make the same argument about: - chip design - modern processors are not fundamentally different from 8086, which also bel…

I am not an expert on their space program or the provenance of rocketry inventions but they seem to have developed both the cryogenic engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-20 )…

Out of this list, the books I am familiar with, are great (Hilbert-Courant, Spivak, Korner's books). At the same time, even with extensive mathematical training, I haven't read the…

Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million…

I would highly recommend Sergey Levine's course: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ For a more mathematical treatment, there's a beautiful book by Puterman: https://www.am…

One of the (two) core assumptions that Einstein made with special relativity is absolutely that the speed of light in vacuum ("c"), is constant in every inertial reference frame/co…

While that's definitely true, maybe one should look at this another way. $400/mo saved in a 0% interest bank account for 40 years = $192,000 $400 * 12/year invested at 10% (incl. i…

>> The program is commonly used as a bridge for high-performing students to enter the U.S. job market, especially in tech. Is the idea that students on OPT or employees on H-1Bs ar…