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Largely agree with all of this. If you're completely in love with your field of study and that is your sole (or at least main) focus in life, then a PhD and academia can be great: you get to move around the world and meet some really interesting people. However if you want to maintain any...

I should have clarified, *speed of light in vacuum

Could be related to the idea of Process Physics - which claims that the original Michelson-Morley experiment actually proved that the speed of light was different in different directions rather than the now accepted version that it was a null result.

A lot of those are in the rather sizeable camp that hold back climate action. Abusing and belittling them (apart from being bigotted and just a generally shitty thing for a person to do) further alienates them from the facts and science of climate change, which creates further barriers to...

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I see what you're saying, however my problem is exactly that: he engages in battle instead of education.

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Richard Feynman I don't have a great in depth understanding of entanglement, which limits my ability to communicate it effectively at a "lay" level (which is also what Feynman was alluding to in the above...

The time dilation is all relative as to where you would be in the gravitational field. In the case of having such a large mass the gravitational effect of the large mass would mess up planetary orbits and cause them to be sucked into and collide with the larger mass. Even if that wasn't a...

Can't stand that pompous w***er. He's in the field of science education and communication and chooses to insult and belittle those who most need to understand science.

In terms of a general link, PBS Space Time is a brilliant YouTube channel to check out. Weekly episodes covering a whole range of topics in astronomy/space in general.

This one is going back a few years. A group published an article in a reasonably high level journal, Nano Letters, that being fully published obviously managed to pass peer review. The article was around the fabrication of "nano chopsticks" where the authors claimed they could finely tune the...

Pretty interested to see how this board goes. I've got a PhD in Physics (thermodynamics/vacuum surface science/liquids) - so have a general interest in all physics areas, and other areas like nanotechnology and even other random fields like anthropology.