Medical student lurker here. I’m interested in just about all branches of science and love reading about the latest scuttlebutt in the parallel scientific world of physics/astronomy/mathematics. The closest I got to the physics on this blog was a brief and stormy affair with quantum mechanics in my physical chemistry class in undergrad. Phew, I’m glad that’s over! Keep up the good work, educating the unwashed masses.

I’m a Math and Physics student from central Europe (Austria). I’m just enjoying to read the great posts in this blog.

thx

Anyway, back to lurking…

American scientists seem to be forced into the ID/creationist debate probably much more than they would like to engage themselves in. It is a bizarre feature of an otherwise so technologically advanced nation.

I do also like political topics every once in a while. For a nation engaged in a major war longer than the WWII, producing over a million refugees and possibly 500,000 Iraqi deaths, it does seem to me the homeland is somewhat dissociated from all that.

Thank you for such a fascinating site.

It is really heartening to see that professional physicists think about some of the same things as “regular” people. My parents are both economists, and they sort of guide me away from physics because it is so hard and so “useless.” This blog is certainly increasing the probability that I end up majoring in physics.

Now I shall go back to my typical lurker role.

Thanks for all the great posts, I look forward to reading more exciting news on work I missed out on.

I’m a sell-out physicist who ended up working in a bank!

…and I’ll want a big chalkboard, because just like food tastes better when you cook it outside (at a campout or bbq), physics looks better messily sprawled out across a wall-sized chalkboard.

I’d really enjoy a post about the philosophical motivations that led CV’s contributors to finally decide on particle theory instead of some other advanced theoretical field during their graduate studies. In fusion research I see the potential to change the world in drastic ways (environmentally, socioculturally, politically, scientifically), but the excitement of the discovery and development of *NEW* science, new theories, and testing the absolute limits of our knowledge regarding how the entire universe works captivates me, and I know the nature of particle theory work would suit my tastes much better. Anyone care to start another thread???

I also appreciate the snarky atheism .

I’m Meghan, and I’m a junior in high school. I thought I wanted to be some sort of particle physicist until this year. Now that I’m taking an actual physics class, it’s actually really boring. And I’m not doing too well, either.

I came across CV while researching the University of Chicago… I can’t remember how, exactly. I read it when I don’t have time, when I have massive projects due in less than 12 hours, and when I’m basically trying to forget about life.