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I wanna become a practitioner physicist, not a theoretical or experimental physicist. One that practices physics and doesn't care about publishing.
Postscripts:
- I want a study group!!!
- who's game?
- I'm not high!
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I'd like to learn the rigorous foundation of the modern physics, but it takes a lot of time and effort. For now, I cannot dedicate much time to it. But I try to read the popular science books, which can provide some intuition about the current status of the human knowledge.
I said all these to mention that I recently finished reading "Fabric of Cosmos" by Brian Greene. It was a very good book. I am sure you'd like it. It is about the nature (i.e., fabric) of space and time. Greene, who is a prominent string theorist, explains what we know and what we do not know about the nature of time and space. He starts from Newtonian viewpoint, continues with special and general relativity, talks about quantum mechanics and how it changes the usual classical understanding of space (and even time). He then goes through big bang and describes inflationary big bang theory, which is really fantastic! This is where dark matter (and energy) comes to the picture. Then he goes through string theory and M-theory and the way they totally change our understanding of space.
He has two other books too, but I haven't read them yet.
tnx, I got its ebook and it looks interesting. I should get the _actual_ book! :D
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