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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Fr, what can you do with a physics degree except teach people physics

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Come up with new physics to teach people?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that's a thing...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

engineering physics (yes, that's a thing...)

Architect?

[–] skybreaker 4 points 11 months ago

So true, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Literally everything. All science and engineering is based on physics

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used my particle physics and knowledge of quantum topology to hybridise a new species of drought-resistant pineapple just the other day. It's that easy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Okay. Good luck having anything from modernity without physics then. Especially your plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well, we did have plenty of engineered items before having the proper physics theory to explain what was happening. Physics does a whole lot more than simply enabling engineering to do more. It's the basis of our understanding of the universe.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I do my plumbing based on political science. But that's not especially modern. The real genius is using music theory to run my email server. I'm setting self-hosted jazz on a saxophone next weekend.