If theres anything that I took away from my 3 years of trying to get a physics degree before burning out on it around covid hit, its that like half of physics seems to be just figuring out what approximations you can safely make to turn something infeasibly complicated into something that can actually be worked out
That’s pretty much the same in most fields, especially in the engineering direction. Idealized gases are idealized, steel beams are assumed to have a certain stiffness just by convention, and your entire existence is represented by a bunch of form fields stored in a database somewhere.
Isn’t a lot of engineering basically applied physics though anyway? Just reversed, such that rather than studying or predicting how a physical system should behave, you’re trying to take what has been learned over time and use it to work backwards to create a system that exhibits desired behavior
In the sense, medicine is applied physics, just as everything else.
Thing is, you always break down a problem into just enough details to solve the problem. Not more. No physicist studying, say, airflow over the Atlantic will take quantum effects or relativistic effects into account. Magnetic fields are also ignored. Even clouds are surprisingly “low res” in most simulations.
Which, if you extrapolate that to humanity’s understanding of the universe, is the cornerstone of science. We know a lot, but we know a lot less than there is to know.
What degree did you end up pivoting to? I’m curious because I was a physicist who got into algorithm development.
Yep. All models are wrong, some are useful.
Are there non-circular cylinders or what does that even mean.
Maybe having halfspheres at the top and bottom? So more like a gas tank, less like a piece of sausage.
Maybe what they’re trying to describe is a torus
Now, how exactly is a penguin toroidal?
