> they are and have been dreadfully underserved and underestimated by the academic physics community (who do not take them seriously because they aren’t studying at colleges and universities)
This stuck out, pretty rigorous if all you want to satisfy your curiosity. If you want to actually apply any of the hard work you put in, you need a degree.
I think that is the most interesting part of learning anything, applying it interesting ways. Doing that within so many of the areas of study is still gated behind academics.
That killed my motivation for putting effort into most things, pretty much except computer science where we are still ok with trusting self taught people for some reason. But to do anything interesting physics, astronomy, philosophy too you need to be in school. sucks
> That killed my motivation for putting effort into most things, pretty much except computer science where we are still ok with trusting self taught people for some reason.
100% same, except computers bore me to death now. I would even be willing to go back to school at this point if it wasn’t tens of thousands of dollars.
“ But to do anything interesting physics, astronomy, philosophy too you need to be in school.” Why would you say that? I am curious. Imagine you are into a specific physics subject and knows what to do with some of contemporary problems that are puzzling people, work on it to provide your solution, etc., and publish your findings. I would think no one could prevent you. Right?
This stuck out, pretty rigorous if all you want to satisfy your curiosity. If you want to actually apply any of the hard work you put in, you need a degree.
I think that is the most interesting part of learning anything, applying it interesting ways. Doing that within so many of the areas of study is still gated behind academics.
That killed my motivation for putting effort into most things, pretty much except computer science where we are still ok with trusting self taught people for some reason. But to do anything interesting physics, astronomy, philosophy too you need to be in school. sucks