On Feb 29, 10:29 pm, Eric Gisse gmail.com> wrote:

I was thinking...

That would be good advice for me, too. I've been posting since,
uh, before I started med school, I think...? Now I'm almost
ready to graduate, and despite these years of posting, I don't
think my level of understanding of physics has really deepened
at all from when I started. Oh, sure, a few extra facts here
and there, but I started out not having any -real- command of
physics past the Halliday and Resnick level, and I'm still at
the same level.

On the other hand, I've watched you steadily progress from being
a physics wannabe whose posts mostly consisted of insulting the
crackpots, to becoming a genuinely capable young physicist with
a command of the field that I can't match, not having the
fundamental background skills. I really admire you for that!

Of course, I can now deliver babies and you can't, so maybe we're
even...

Jerry

P.S. My residency situation is "sort of" straightened out. I even
get to stay in the area, which is important because family is
important. My brother's health has been deteriorating, and his
wife has had multiple sclerosis for nearly twenty years.