On Mar 1, 5:48 am, Jerry
comcast.net> wrote:> On Feb 29, 10:29 pm, Eric Gisse
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Spend less time fantasizing about crap that is beyond your
>> ability and spend more time working on the elementary stuff so
>> you will be in a position to understand it eventually instead
>> of never.
>
> I was thinking...
Always a good thing.
>
> 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.
Don't sell yourself short. You have a far better command of the
current state of the art as far as Sagnac and speed of light
experiments along with the seeming thousand varieties in both than I
do.
You are doing the same thing I would be doing were situations
different. I'd be self educating on what interests me. OTOH I'm doing
that already to a large extent, but you get my meaning I hope.
>
> 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!
Thank you.
>
> Of course, I can now deliver babies and you can't, so maybe we're
> even...
We stick with what we know.
>
> 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.
That sucks. I hope he gets better, or at least not worse.
