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2025.06.09 00:00

So You Want to Be a Physicist? Watch This First

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    @rangjungyeshe 　오래 전

    Great guidance.  Even before I graduated it became clear I wasn't suited for academia (doing research on stuff that was fashionable/brought money in/generated more papers for your supervisor etc), so I went into science writing. I ended up publishing research in physics (and other areas) in decent journals anyway. Wd love to hear your thoughts on this model - i.e.have a day-job that pays well, has zero admin or teaching, and do research in spare time on anything one finds interesting. Maybe you do it already ?!

    2025-06-09 21:12

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    @EMCLab-rkg 　오래 전

    Hello everyone

    2025-06-09 21:09

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    @steveadal4735 　오래 전

    PHD means PERFECTLY HAPPILY Dilouded?❤❤❤❤❤❤

    2025-06-09 21:05

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    @kelvincannon36… 　오래 전

    The laws of physics, & or any other law for that “matter’s” broke whencever individual(s) don’t abide by them in plain- sight…

    …it’s “physically” impossible for thin-air, & or opportunities to prevent the opportunistic hence, prisons designed via wall to wall concrete laced with steel, specially to prevent the innate instinct that seeks freedom to do whatever one wants…

    …yet physic’s only practical applications in day to life’s to allow the innate instinct that seeks freedom, so that doing whatever one wants…

    …(that “whatever one wants,” in most cases being any, & or everything other than procuring a means of “actually securing” one’s own “personal-space)…

    …only ends-up justifying the demand for more, & or more wall to wall concrete laced with steel…

    …whenever, & or wherever abiding by the law of physics, & or any other law for that “matter,” should first, & foremost oblige the individual to initiate the procurement of said wall to wall concrete, laced with steel/titanium type invulnerability’s structured around one’s own “personal-space(s),” & or the next best form of affordable “wall to wall concrete, laced with steel/titanium type” resources that would serve similar purpose…

    …rather than the resources that ate sll too often exhausted on tickets to see said resources utilized exclusively @sports events/events whence said practical applications of physics are being reserved exclusively to “actually secure” the president, celebrities, royalty, & or those thinking the “secret service” will rub-off on them via keeping “secret” the “normalization” of their very own “vulnerabilities unnecessarily” in plain-sight as a direct result of physics having had/having no practical applications with regards to making the physically possible, impossible…

    …foreveryone individual(s) access to real world mechanisms that would prioritize “safety,” & or the “actual securing” of “personal-space(s)” first, & foremost of the time(s), @all times, & or for in the first place!

    #ActuallySecuredPersonalSpaceShouldntBeASecretPhysicistsEquationOfWhichOnlyPracticalUsesReservedExclusivelyForThePresidentCelebritiesRoyaltyAndOrPhysicists

    2025-06-09 20:58

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    @DmitriyTipikin 　오래 전

    Pure (fundamental) physics like pure mathematics is only for absolutely motivated people like Grigori Perelman (no money for life with some perspective to make discovery). Applied physics like applied mathematics (especially coding) are for many - that is the way to modern banking, mining, money-making, engineering, statistics, marketing.

    2025-06-09 20:24

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    @jeffwhite9987 　오래 전

    Thanks for the video. You look great.

    2025-06-09 20:24

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    @ssemaseymen 　오래 전

    Couldn't agree more.

    2025-06-09 20:22

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    @Voidroamer 　오래 전

    this "members only" thing is about to make me unsubscribe.. commenting on this video cause i cant even comment on the other one. Youtube keeps putting those restricted videos on my feed, and with the new layout its like half my screen.  So annoying, seeing something you think might be interesting, but is behind a paywall. I'm on youtube to avoid those

    You only have five likes on it, so i doubt restricting those videos is helping you at all.. Many have probably unsubscribed already

    2025-06-09 20:21

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    @i2c_jason 　오래 전

    Electrical Engineer here - unless you are a savant at math, you might be better served with a 4 year engineering degree. It will be difficult to make the case that 8-10 years of deep theoretical knowledge is valuable as AI becomes better at exactly this same skill. What you'll need for the future is the foundation for a generalist who can make prototypes, design devices and machinery, design instruments and sensors, quickly implement software libraries, and create tangible outcomes from physics theory. There are no more gatekeepers of knowledge. Deep expertise is becoming increasingly worthless in the limit sense as all modes of AI eventually merge and knowledge becomes free to all.

    2025-06-09 19:33

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    @mr.mayhem5438 　오래 전

    I respected you quite a bit. But you don't seem consistent. You say things like Academia is a sandbox. We need more unafraid thinkers in the world. Then you say something like people using the latest technology (AI) are fraudulently using this technology to explore new ways of thinking ( yes some are garbage ideas , but so is a lot of what comes out of Academia.) Then you say by the way want to learn the same academic physics I so deeply find gatekept?

    2025-06-09 19:26

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    @rv706 　오래 전

    "Is physics worth it?" - From Sabine's face on the thumbnail, the answer seems to be: "NO" ?

    2025-06-09 19:16

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    @javastream5015 　오래 전

    About the "evergreen" computer science: AVOID IT!

    In the canton Zurich in Switzerland the final days have come: All IT jobs are now nearshored to Spain (since when is Spain an IT power ?) and the fusion between UBS and Credit Suisse continues to kill thousands of jobs. Swiss Railways (in Bern) and IBM look bad too.

    ?Rule number 1 in a financial crisis: IT is the first victim of cost savings!

    Additionally the AI wave is hitting us. More are an excuse. But managers are not experts. They just do it. And the worst is: job descriptions require for 5 years of AI expertise! Nobody of the seniors have that. Only fresh graduates from the last 2-3 years have basic knowledge.

    2025-06-09 19:13

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    @javastream5015 　오래 전

    It sounds like a FIASCO profession.

    You need IQ to finish it. But the decision was bad. ?"They were smart, but in the wrong field."

    Same is with biology, egyptology and many other fields.

    2025-06-09 19:08

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    @christophersin… 　오래 전

    Sabine, I wonder what you think of this https://youtu.be/Xb69yPNgX-Q?si=D7Ipcfz54Lo_TIcG

    2025-06-09 19:01

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    @PaulineLawrenc… 　오래 전

    Love Sabine . Smart , Honest , Independent ,
    Big Picture analyst .
    Pauline

    2025-06-09 19:00

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    @Ken-er9cq 　오래 전

    My impression is that physicists are more successful in academic careers if they do more applied work as it is possible to publish more. Things like surface physics. It must get extremely boring. Our former dean had actually developed a new technique. The people who latched onto it probably got more papers.

    2025-06-09 18:35

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    @michaelripley4… 　오래 전

    I used to study electrons.. Had to quit my study!
    They are always negative?

    2025-06-09 18:32

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    @oldtom541 　오래 전

    In the UK, STEM, excepting computing (which arguably isn’t really STEM) is now very poorly paid. Physics has particularly bad career prospects. There are more jobs in Engineering but they are very poorly paid, and a graduate after 5 to 10 years will be earning something like that of a moderately successful tradesman, ie a joiner, plumber or electrician.

    2025-06-09 18:18

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    @heitorchierent… 　오래 전

    https://youtube.com/shorts/3_RqIWukaCY?si=_d2d0wGfueiaFvom

    2025-06-09 18:17

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    @stevewebb5735 　오래 전

    Great video!
    I would add Physics offers a very portable skill-set together with the philosophy of trying to workout and learn new topics that you may be engaged with.

    My own example, I started with a not great 2.2 BSc but was lucky to be able to do many diverse things in my engineering career - amongst them HVDC switching and transmission, submarine and terrestrial fibre optics, flight controller for drones, camera gimbal stabilisation, analogue+digital+highspeed circuit design, embedded control software, simulation and modelling, computer vision, patents, papers, and so on. I came across and learned from many other good engineers who were physicists - often left-handed... if that means anything?!


    Physics is a great start for somebody who is not sure of their likely career path (as was I) - getting a BSc will stand you in great shape to find your future.

    2025-06-09 18:15

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    @Michael_The_Lo… 　오래 전

    Applied physics is the key to success and a very rewarding salary and life.
    To make this happen physics knowledge must be coupled with engineering knowledge. This ability allows one to make dreams a reality, resulting in new technologies and products created to be sold. The truth: hard work first, money later!

    2025-06-09 18:02

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    @CC-gg4oj 　오래 전

    This video comes with a quizwithit...

    2025-06-09 17:48

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    @OcToPiiUs 　오래 전

    You are the only Scientist i believe in.

    2025-06-09 17:38

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    @rohyerecords74… 　오래 전

    Good point, that many physicists with PhD leave academia to become software engineers… looks like I took the short cut, quit university as I anyway already was a lot into software development.
    Anyway… Danke Sabine für deine Videos - das ich mein Studium abgebrochen habe bedeutet ja nicht, dass ich kein Interesse mahr an Physik habe…

    2025-06-09 17:12

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    @longwilliams52… 　오래 전

    Great perspective in all things science, Sabine. I would like to add Medical Physics as a career path. When people ask me what career should I choose, I always respond with ‘Education’ or ‘Health’, as people are always being born and people always are getting older. That’s why I went into medical physics when choosing my Masters late in my life ?

    2025-06-09 17:11

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    @zynzy4u 　오래 전

    Academia wants followers, not leaders.

    2025-06-09 16:25

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    @zynzy4u 　오래 전

    A few years later went to a different university to attempt to continue my physics education.  There, my "guidance consular"  showed me all the department research projects.  At the end was his pride and joy project.  Looked at that and said, "you know, in 1938 a paper was published in "Physical Review Letters" covering your exact research with the accompanying formulas describing the results of what your are researching.  If you like, I can write that formula down for you."  This I proceeded to do which completely and totally severally aggravated this dimwit and the dimwit head of that physics department.  This resulted in me being rejected from being allowed to continue my physics education at that university.

    To add pain to the burn I went the the electrical engineering department and ask if I could take there senior degree examines to demonstrate my electrical engineering prowess.  Aced their tests.  Then, the department determined I world be require to take all those courses anyway as they simply could not allow such to escape their need to cause student suffering.  The end of my trying to function in any way within academia.  Academia had shown its true colors, that being a complete farce.

    2025-06-09 16:23

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    @brianquigley19… 　오래 전

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    2025-06-09 16:20

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    @MargaretJones-… 　오래 전

    Love you Sabine,
    You do have a brilliant mind you truly do.
    I know I have said it before, Aliens would find you very intriguing indeed love.
    I don't know alot about particle physics, the fact that we are here at all is miraculous indeed.
    Back down to reality? She doesn't like me love ?
    She and her dark art buddies have a beef I still have a pulse love ?
    I am truly not happy with that woman at all?
    She doesn't give a toss ?
    Unbelievable truly unbelievable ?

    2025-06-09 16:17

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    @hinesification 　오래 전

    Well said. Bachelors and masters, in physics myself and a PhD an astronomy. You have to be tenacious and really want it. After 30 years it’s been worth it, but it was hard.

    2025-06-09 16:16

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    @Hackmeister-TV 　오래 전

    I kinda regret my master in physics. Yes it's versatile and one has the potential to learn anything, but tell that to a company that has 150 applicants for one engineering job within one day after job ad. They do not care. Either you have the hard skills or you don't and physics does not give you many. If you are a "normal" person to which this physics stuff does not come easy, do not waste your time studying it. Pick something more specific which gives you true skills. I am a "normal" person and i came out on the other side of the study, and it does not look bright on the job end.

    2025-06-09 16:10

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    @zynzy4u 　오래 전

    Was my  first paper to be  a  coauthor with my physics PhD professor submitted to the premier journal in the field.  That paper was peer review rejected with the response, paraphrased, "almost everyone already knows this therefore, there is no reason to publish this research paper."  That was acceptable.  What happened six months later was not acceptable.  A  different author was published in that journal partially covering the identical research of our paper.  The following month another paper covering a different part of our research was published in that journal by one of the persons on the peer review board.  Both those papers taken together were rather incomplete, unclear,  without proper formulas, and inadequate to present the information of our single paper.  The writing on the wall could not have been more clear.  You all are not part of the "in" crowd and will  never be accepted by the protectors of mediocrity via the peer review process.  Eric Weinstein has spoken at length on this peer review charade subject.  That made my choice to depart from the political "academic" world to enter the private sector an obvious choice.  A major loss for everyone as if you live in America as am adult it is extremely likely, >99% probably, you have been directly exposed to my private work.  Long ago, at 19 years, was in the top 1000 geniuses in the U.S.  But never mind. There are stupid people that need their hopelessly inadequate positions protected by totalitarian peer review practices.

    2025-06-09 16:06

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    @nug700 　오래 전

    @6:00 ME... Yea, sorry, it was me.... And probably also the 2 or 3 other markers I used all the way up manically re-writting my equations over and over again on the lobby white boards to memorize my formula sheets for finals....

    2025-06-09 16:02

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    @matthiasrost60… 　오래 전

    Good jokes about Mathematicians: A Physicist and a Mathematician want to cook water. First the Physicist: He takes a pot from the table, fills it with water and puts it on the stove. Then he turns the stove on and when it cooks, he turns the stove off. Then the Mathematician: He put's the pot back on the table and is finished, since he has returned the problem to an already solved one.
    Another one. How does a mathematician catches a lion? Easy Peasy. He sets up a cage in the Savannah, goes into the cage, closes the door, and the does a Fourier Transformation (inside becomes outside and vice versa) but be careful, if you stand in the center of the transformation you get expelled into infinity. In Germany a PhD takes 3 years commonly. And in medicine half a year. What do you learn in that progress? Nothing. Or as Asimov stated it: "People honest believe, that education is something you could finish."

    2025-06-09 15:46

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    @matthiasrost60… 　오래 전

    I would say, NO. As if physicists have any clue about what matter is. I mean I just look at this "Standard-Model". And without explaining, what which particle or let's say entity is. Physicist came to the idea, to order all the common particles they found inside the particle accelerators (by the way for high energetic collisions also high energetic particles with small lifetime will form) just like chemists ordered the chemical elements in the perdiodic table. The PSE contains all chemical elements, not only in order, but also in line to a certain mass, reactivity, possible charge state and so on. And it has been found, that the construction principle of matter, therefore also for the PSE is the Orbital Model (Schrödingers Equation applied in 3D and one time vector). So the structure of the PSE is a consequence of the Schrödingers Equation. Where's the logic in the standard-modell? You just put particles in tripletts, with increasing mass. Guess what there are also other particles then these tree per category. So it's simply a method of correlation, not causation, on which the standard-model is formed. Contrary to the PSE. Why is that so? Because the PSE right from beginning was constructed in order to reflect the consequence of the properties of one element into an chemical reaction. To attribute a mass to it, came later. I mean most Physists have already after 5th Semester forgotten, what physics is. See a child touches everything it get's into it's hands. This one is soft, that one is hard, since it has a different physis - quality - Beschaffenheit. And Physics should be the teachings by which quality reality has been constructed. (English is a supid language. Physik sollte die Lehre von der Beschaffenheit der Realität sein.) Because that it is a construct, can easily be seen in the PSE. Rather in Physics what you are told are models. Thousands of models (images, projections) to describe reality. To make you believe, that we already know every model to describe reality. nonsens. Even Max Planck stated at the beginning of his physics courses, that he doesn't think to achieve anything great in this field, since all the physical laws already have been found out, so he rather would see himself to introduce minor changes for the better. Few years later he discovered quantum physics (what a minor change). I think it's better to study also different professions, just be able to see, if anybody has already developed a concept, which could be adapted to describe matter from a subatomic level. See this is the real stuff. We began with Democrit and needed thousands of years to get a comprehensive overview of physics in the Newtonian Scales. And even atoms, as predicted by pure logic from Democrit was believed to be hoax for thousands of years until Rutherford came along with his Rutherford backscattering. And after Rutherford, after Atoms became as a proven fact and a philosphical nuance distributed by lodges in secret. Then science got wings, then this whole plane got a lift off. We developed Air planes, trains, electron microscopes, lasers, masers, tasers and so on. I rather see a highly demand in biology, forestry needed, since we as human species have destroyed 60% of the ecosystem of the landmass of the earth in between 10.000 years. (Yep we created the Sahara and so on). Another point would be chemistry. Since we gained/removed almost every thinkable ressource on this planet. On thing is recycling of our tools and needs. For instance most technical polymers can't be recycled at all, since the binding energy of C-C bond is ~ 4.2 eV. And yep there is quite good physicist working on that in the USA, developing XUV-Photodiodes to able to recycle polymers optically. Or in germany theres a company, which does that on plasmalysis, so a combination of physics and chemistry. And this techniques seem to work to be able to solve our pollution problem. And if we solved our pollution problem and reversed the degradation of our ecosystem (which can be done faster and cheaper as you might think. See Alan Savory or Willi Smits for instance) than the global warming problem will solve itself, without the necessity of a transformation to renewables. First of all, the ecosystem will then be capable of absorbing 3-5 times more carbon out of the atmosphere. And secondly if we manage our ecosystems properly we will also not induce Carbon emissions due to soil degradation, which is approx. 1/2 of our CO2 emissions, which is neglected by the IPCC. Since CO2 emissions from oceans fall under sea right, and are therefore juristically forbidden to be attributed to one state. So the normalize the curves and what comes out is total nonsens (typical Academia). With all that done, our basis of life will recover. But to be honest, we greedy humans killed 96 % of wildlife. So I would say it's time to give nature something back. And if you study Physics with the intention to do the enabling technologies, so that you comilitones or friends or families will be able to give nature something back. Then I would say, you're on the right track. But be careful Physicists are conditioned to the bone. One of them told me honestly, that "Chemistry is boring, since it depends only on one formula (2nd law of thermodynamics)". So he reduced (because of his stupidity)  the complexity of chemistry only to thermodynamic part, since it was the only equation he knew from chemistry. Guess what every chemical reaction can be written as a formula. We have 118 Elements in the Periodic table. And what comes out is ... "Earth". Or for instance chemistry can be really fun. Try to make yourself a lasagna and then go to the supermarket and by one of these instant lasagna's. What's the difference between both? The first one is tasty, the other one is shit. Ah, physics and chemistry makes the difference. So in Combination to Chemistry physics is awesome. But as a standalone topic, boring as hell. I make you a song, so you'll understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ73JZKVShw

    2025-06-09 15:29

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    @Gaius315 　오래 전

    It's respectable that you had the courage to give this guidance. Most people would shy away from even that. Kudos to you, doc.

    2025-06-09 15:19

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    @oschonrock 　오래 전

    Good. Helpful to young people. And much better without the populist negativity!

    2025-06-09 15:10

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    @mkl4324-d9o 　오래 전

    Sabine looks nice in this video

    2025-06-09 14:51

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    @kallagenspb 　오래 전

    Why video cover is so.. strange?..

    2025-06-09 14:47

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    @kallagenspb 　오래 전

    I do physics bcs I can’t not to do.

    2025-06-09 14:46

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    @StephenB-z4s 　오래 전

    I think there are more people going for high level jobs than there are jobs. I study IT & im 41, i live in AUS, we get study loans, I have no intention of paying it back. I just don't want a real job.

    2025-06-09 14:24

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    @achromatic1 　오래 전

    I did an ms and bs in physics. Since I've worked as a data analyst, data engineer, data scientist (sr and manager), teachers assistant, research assistant... in academia, banking, healthcare, finance, pharma, marketing... I think what I got from my physics degrees was the confidence and ability to solve complex problems on my own. Def were a great investment.  ??

    2025-06-09 14:16

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    @prosoporific 　오래 전

    Good vid while on topic ... Quantum Gravty confirmation (sound) thoery as it can artificially inflate mass even on quantum lvls vacuumed tested pressuring manipulation outward vs inward frequency wavelength vibrations this and momentum amplitudes... God Bless..

    2025-06-09 14:11

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    @NorthWesternSo… 　오래 전

    Looking back at the physics majors that I've known since the 80s, software, software, teaching junior high school science, software, embedded systems software, and teaching high school physics.

    2025-06-09 13:51

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    @brianmercer720… 　오래 전

    Find the scammiest field to specialize in, something like climate change. You only need to publish phony reports and collect government grants.

    2025-06-09 13:43

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    @kenbyrd8457 　오래 전

    Well, it IS good to know that you ARE doing alright, yourself.

    2025-06-09 13:34

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    @waldonumberone 　오래 전

    Dr. Hossenfelder, I deeply apologize for pissing half your field off (edit: edit)

    2025-06-09 13:33

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    @HanBaby82 　오래 전

    Getting a PhD in physics males you a physician,  right? ;-)

    2025-06-09 13:17

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    @Info-God 　오래 전

    Become a welder, electrician, machinist. Why? You can open a business with such trades.
    Or surgeons.
    No enginnering.

    2025-06-09 13:15

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    @robertoazaar 　오래 전

    My mother told me: "son if you study physics, you will end as  teacher, better study something that makes money" but i study  my master degree in materials science at Unam, ... ath the end is follow your passion.

    2025-06-09 12:45

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    @stevenm8503 　오래 전

    This was so perfect. Also, outside of academia, be prepared to explain your decisions all the time to your supervisors who don’t share a common background.

    2025-06-09 12:44

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    @davidmackie349… 　오래 전

    Great summary of physics careers.  She left out that physics is a great undergraduate major for people who want to get into medical school, law school, etc., provided that you've also taken some courses related to those fields.  You distinguish yourself from all those who just took pre-med, pre-law, etc.  Those professional schools will teach you everything you need to know -- provided you are smart enough and tenacious enough.  Majoring in physics proves both.

    2025-06-09 12:35

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    @topquark27 　오래 전

    Thanks. I did HEP for my bachelor's thesis. Now planing to switch to nuclear or software engineering.

    2025-06-09 12:34

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    @bobwrathall848… 　오래 전

    Did a Ph.D. in experimental solid state physics 50 years ago. Interesting and fun doing the work. I met my wife as a student. Had my first child as a student. All very interesting and engaging.
        Graduated in a recession year, no work even as a junior college teacher. Instantly became a radar engineer. After 5 years instantly became an IC design engineer. Could have done computer science. Maybe even art. But I had a very interesting career as an IC design and process engineer. Now I have a hobby thinking about superconductivity type II. Maybe crackpot but entertaining.

    2025-06-09 12:16

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    @GuyLakeman 　오래 전

    i always say if you want to learn physics go and sit under a tree in an apple orchard but avoid an orchard that has snakes in the trees

    2025-06-09 12:08

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    @GuyLakeman 　오래 전

    most jobs are unsuitable for physics as they dont require deep thinking like politics, arts, journalism, military,  office windows operator, factory button pusher, refuse collector, banker, economist, et al

    2025-06-09 11:59

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    @Apollo1011 　오래 전

    What about cold fusion! It's only 10 years away!?

    2025-06-09 11:56

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    @sgravina 　오래 전

    I got a PhD in physics 37 years ago.  All of this advice was applicable then too.

    2025-06-09 11:55

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    @GuyLakeman 　오래 전

    if you want to develop your mind then study physics.... if that's too difficult, try dead mind religion

    2025-06-09 11:52

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    @hesperianschol… 　오래 전

    Hair looks great today.

    2025-06-09 11:51

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    @rufushollada22… 　오래 전

    Thx Sabine for choosing the topic of education in physics and employment, but why not address the elephant in the room: don’t go into academia at first! Safe that for the transition to retirement. You hint at it, but stop short of the obvious. I have a Ph.D in physics and never regretted going into the private sector/industry (Semiconductor) ; it’s been 30 years now. I still have a passion for physics, was able to have a family and provide for them and sparked both my kids into studying physics.
    Physics is not a field, like high energy or space-time theories. It’s a way of thinking that accepts that there are only a few real truths out there (natural laws or first principals) and one should always keep the big picture in mind. The rest is in the details, and there are many of them, more than stars in the universe. Find something that you like AND is useful to other people. And never lose the love of learning :).

    2025-06-09 11:47

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    @JennyDplus3 　오래 전

    Sabine.. never stop being the bad ass you are! You’re an inspiration and a renegade. You believe in the sanctity of science and that should not only be cherished, but respected :)

    2025-06-09 11:45

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    @CobraTheSpaceP… 　오래 전

    What happened to her?

    2025-06-09 11:37

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    @johnhodgson421… 　오래 전

    Currently a part-time physics student, if I were a full-time student in Physics, the failure rate would be about 70% of that of full-time students, so part-time it is. Instead of a 30% chance of passing it's now 60%. So I have over a 1/2 chance of getting a degree in physics. With the 3.0 requirement for entry to a Master's, you also take the easy A courses for the GPA boost. What I have learned is that the PH'd running the course are also doing overtime to pay off their PH'd. So they are doing double duty. Currently, the lecture hours are 40 hours total for the 16-week semester. So your motivation is that you learn on your own, before taking the course, find out what physics books you need for the course, and just spend every day doing physics before the class starts. I am an inventor, and you need a physics degree to even get considered for your invention to work at all. The physics classes are full of A-only students, and I am the lowest-graded C student in the class. But hey, I am 60 years old.

    2025-06-09 11:37

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    @dgsean9775 　오래 전

    Actually I am the guy that did in fact "wake up one day and figured out DArk matter, and dark energy, and all else" Not my fault you all ain't on my level. If you seek the truth, then you seek Dynamic Gravity.

    2025-06-09 11:25

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    @CINERNETICS 　오래 전

    I did a master degree in physics in mexico and after that, I worked as an IT consultant . I work in a US big tech company. I still love physics and the basis of AI Hopfield networks.  The best programmers are physicist like Dennis Ritchie the C and unix creator. The physics give you the basis to learn whatever you wa

    2025-06-09 11:20

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    @AnimateKidsArt 　오래 전

    This looks touched up by ai

    2025-06-09 11:19

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    @Anuraag-pi6bi 　오래 전

    nothing but depressing

    2025-06-09 11:18

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    @charleskrueger… 　오래 전

    Sabine, how would you contrast the career path of a physicist with that of a mathematician or an engineer?

    2025-06-09 11:16

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    @jonathanbohn48… 　오래 전

    A physicist builds bigger and bigger particle accelerators.

    2025-06-09 11:05

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    @tiwerlol6914 　오래 전

    is it just me or is her face looking different in this video?

    2025-06-09 11:04

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    @MB-xe8bb 　오래 전

    So you spend 8-10 years getting your physics PhD, then spend another 2-3 years or more learning another practical field that is not physics.  What a waste.  And who has the money for that?  Let alone the years where you didn't make money.
    There needs to be a better way to evaluate people who would succeed at physics.  In my case, my memory would just not store math tools permanently.  Also, I think I didn't really, really understand the tools.  One criteria:  If you can't explain what the math is telling you in plain English, then you don't really understand it.

    2025-06-09 11:03

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    @georgeageorgop… 　오래 전

    Sabine,,,chicken Trader here ;)) ,,you want top Quality Chickens & Eggs?? ;))

    2025-06-09 11:02

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    @mark8161-b2d 　오래 전

    My observation in United States B.S. physics graduates got jobs in computer science or engineering, but had to compete those with the specific degrees. And had to explain to interviewers the value of a physics to someone who didn't understand physics. I love physics, but I had to get a job. One can get a minor or even a double major with physics.

    2025-06-09 11:02

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    @LegionarioCrue… 　오래 전

    Here we go again...

    2025-06-09 10:57

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    @georgeageorgop… 　오래 전

    Basicly,,,The North-europeans/Westerners are stupid as it gets ;)),,,They Base Everything on Their super Electromagnetism/Electricity,,,They so stupid to Believe only Electromagnetism/Electricity commands COSMOS ;))

    2025-06-09 10:55

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    @tHebUm18 　오래 전

    Physics undergrad, entered PhD program, realized in retrospect I was very burnt out on schooling, dropped out of PhD program after a year recognizing there was no way I could persist for ~5 more years of that, spent 3 years unemployed, got a software engineering job, and 8 years later the only regret I have is not peacing out of physics sooner. Got into physics because I was interested in problem solving without realizing that it basically just becomes math with little tangible connection to the world and the turnaround time for solving modern problems is often measured in years if not longer--far too long for my lizard brain, much prefer software with turnaround in days or weeks.

    2025-06-09 10:53

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    @SteveRowe 　오래 전

    Being a physics Ph. D. seems to have the same requirements as a youtuber.

    2025-06-09 10:52

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    @nishantsharma8… 　오래 전

    Most of us we choose a field of our intrest. But i think why only in physics why in chemistry, why in biology o other fields.  There should be an option in Science also. So that a person should have a view related to unification of all scientific principles. But if anyone is going in specifically physics, the point of view of that person is restricted to their field. Which should not be there.

    2025-06-09 10:51

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    @superfliping 　오래 전

    Is this your new AI? Doesn't look like you anymore

    2025-06-09 10:49

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    @georgeageorgop… 　오래 전

    Basicly Physics,,,is a field to no reality Persons!,,,In Science you have to Prove the Facts,,,In Physics you Abstract and hope for a Lottery win! ;)

    2025-06-09 10:40

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    @awesomewav2419 　오래 전

    Anyone who has the brain for physics blows my mind. im studying accounting and well that requires my full brain power.

    2025-06-09 10:39

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    @maandeeck 　오래 전

    There's no reason to describe the degrees of the scale dimension of nature we arbitrarily summarize under the term physics... including yet not added lower degrees... especially because the standard model of fundamental particles and interactions is flatland-ish...which results into false complexity.

    2025-06-09 10:33

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    @takashitamagaw… 　오래 전

    It's a general trend in academia that the number of permanent tenured positions are decreasing while "renewable" or adjunct positions (and graduate students) are filling the staffing needs for teaching.

    Many physics students go on to other fields but within physics itself there are theoretical physicists and there are experimental physicists. There are fewer graduate school slots for students doing theory because there is more research funding for experimental work. There was, from what I recall, an unfair notion that doing theory was somehow a "higher calling" than doing experiments.

    2025-06-09 10:31

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    @robertarvaniti… 　오래 전

    Accurate, useful advice, delivered with humor. Representative of both the intellect drawn to physics as well as the analytic abilities cultivated by the study. Worked for me just as she described.

    2025-06-09 10:31

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    @Ultimabendesse… 　오래 전

    I wanted to be either a physicist or a mechanical engineer, but I couldn't handle calculus. I highly recommend learning calculus in high school first, before going to post-secondary, if you are interested in the hard sciences and want to keep your options open.

    2025-06-09 10:27

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    @georgeageorgop… 　오래 전

    Physics According to Me is an Abstract of Kind "wanna know everything"

    2025-06-09 10:26

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    @beammeupscotty… 　오래 전

    will i get a accent like yours  lol !~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2025-06-09 10:25

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    @kanteshlamani4… 　오래 전

    I have written a paper which explains all phenomena with one law, theory of everything please look at my paper . On vixra Kantesh

    2025-06-09 10:23

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    @T_Mo271 　오래 전

    More on good and bad research topics, please.

    2025-06-09 10:19

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    @mintakan003 　오래 전

    Some of the best bioinformaticists I've encountered, have a physics background.  They seem to have a rigor, understanding of the science, grasp of math and statistics, that even most people in the field don't have (in such a firm way).

    In terms of cost-benefit analysis, I'd say a MS is probably close to optimality (IMO).  This is esp. if one will wind up working in private industry.  (My boss said a PhD is not worth all that time and expense. It maybe justified if one wants to work in academia.  But those are big ifs, given the reality of academia ...)

    2025-06-09 10:17

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    @BANKO007 　오래 전

    I see a PhD as an entry-level qualification for mainstream academic research. I learned far more useful things in industry, without chasing the ultimate theory of everything and it is a myth to think that a PhD is the only way to gain exceptional research skills. I care about foundational physics, but it is very rare talent that makes the huge leaps, and for them, a PhD isn't the differentiator. Sabine, whose unique path was panel-beaten into its present form by reprehensible academic experiences, is such a talent. One day she might wake up with the best idea anyone has ever had.

    2025-06-09 10:09

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    @wadehines9971 　오래 전

    When I was a hiring manager, I preferred to hire software engineers with a degree in physics over those with computer science degrees.
    The problem solving abilities were typically superior, the curiosity to develop domain expertise as needed was much better, They didn't get hung up on programming for programming sake, but instead to make something work. As important as that (and associated to it), they almost always had the ability to learn what was needed to move forward.

    2025-06-09 10:03

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    @AlnisSmidchens 　오래 전

    I would say a key benefit of a physics education is that it gives you a solid grounding in multiple disciplines, and generally the ability to tackle ambiguous and challenging problems.

    I studied Applied Physics for my bachelor's degree, and while my day job has very little actual physics, I use the problem-solving and technical reading/writing skills from my degree every day.

    Not to mention the emotional resilience developed by enduring four years of physics coursework :-)

    I also find that physics gives me a unique perspective compared to the engineering and business backgrounds of my colleagues, and I think that helps with developing unique and creative solutions to problems.

    2025-06-09 10:02

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    @janerussell347… 　오래 전

    F IS FOR FAKE AND FRAUD
    Is it possible to shake you lot out of your dogmatic slumbers? Am I in the shadow tube so you can't read my posts?

    I've just critiqued the QUADRUPOLE FORMULA using Green's Function to show it's mathematically flawed. And no one responds?
    You can't all be so brain-dead that you believe their lies built on a Gell-Mann'-like house of cards . You don't have to be an expert In maths and equations to see through the fraud.

    2025-06-09 10:01

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    @Disgracefoold 　오래 전

    Dear Ms. Hossenfelder, you have not just been critical of physics, you have 'BAILED' the profession and become a science explainer! As such, I would caution 'would be physicists', to take your advice, if indeed any is forthcoming, through a sober as, 'bias filter'...

    2025-06-09 09:58

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    @williamstraub3… 　오래 전

    Major in physics and become an engineer. Want to each physics at university? Forget it.

    2025-06-09 09:58

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    @SciD1 　오래 전

    Why? To learn how to parrot bullshit? No thanks.

    2025-06-09 09:57

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    @garyweise8233 　오래 전

    I studied physics so I could explain how biology is possible. The chemists could not explain biochemistry so I looked at physics to find a usable information and found nothing that was biology friendly so I decided to develop my own physics and have done so and although my personally developed physics would be called personal crap by proffessional physicists I can explain biology much more accurately than a proffessional physicist or chemist. Physics and chemistry and biology were plain feudal toward each other and also in conflict in the lab. Physics is great but you will have to develop your own if you want the truth of it.

    2025-06-09 09:57

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    @EspHack 　오래 전

    this was surprisingly nice to hear

    2025-06-09 09:53

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    @manuelsantilla… 　오래 전

    Great video Sabine, as always, thanks for sharing. Please do the video about research topics! My son is considering physics and this is helpful for us.

    2025-06-10 21:16

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    @RenaudJolivet 　오래 전

    No one takes 8-10 years to do a PhD in any topic because PhD programs kick you out way before that.  4 years max. in NL, 3 years max. in FR, typically 4-5 years max. in CH, typically 3-4 years in UK.

    2025-06-10 20:48

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    @C0Y0TE5 　오래 전

    -- Absolutely love this person!

    2025-06-10 20:47

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    @janerussell347… 　오래 전

    You don't need to be a genius to see everything in modern physics is screwy/wrong. So opportunity knocks. You will be called fake, though.
    Even Einstein was wrong. In SR his first 2 light equations,  (taken as axiomatic, ) are wrong, x = ct and x' = ct', if he wants to show inverse proportion, [ time dilation and length contraction ] which he does. In GR there was no need for tensor math. [ Hilbert almost bubbled him on that account ].
    Einstein was in the right ballpark [ though I prefer Whitehead ]. The quantum mystics are in Laputa land. Lagrange [ and Hamilton ] were guilty of over-finessing;  but at least kept the Principle of Least Action, not the hilarious All Action of that bobby dazzler, Feynman.

    2025-06-10 19:31

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    @ArianHD 　오래 전

    Pls do Apple's paper for LLMs: https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

    2025-06-10 19:10

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    @Leo99929 　오래 전

    Loads of video games programmers have degrees in physics. It's highly applicable in that field with the programming and maths and writing libraries and game engines to simulate things like; water flowing, rag dolling, objects falling and interacting, ray tracing, reflections, illumination, etc.

    2025-06-10 19:09

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    @Leo99929 　오래 전

    100%: Physics is applied Maths. Chemistry is applied Physics. Biology is applied Chemistry.
     Engineering is applied Physics.

    I'm a research engineer and having a physicist to work with is SO HELPFUL! Engineers aren't trained to be great at the physics theory, programming, and maths. But Physicists aren't trained to apply that knowledge to the real world, or make those ideas real. It's a team effort.

    2025-06-10 19:05

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    @KarekareB 　오래 전

    It's Sabine or her younger sister?

    2025-06-10 18:47

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    @KROOTPI 　오래 전

    Just passed my theoretical physics exam. It was quite easy, every answer was "maybe".

    2025-06-10 18:37

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    @aurelizacarias… 　오래 전

    I am a retired engineer, but I made my career as a high school teacher teaching technology, mathematics, and physics.
    If I had to summarize physics in four facts, they would be inertia, gravity, force (as action and reaction) and electric charge.
    If I had to summarize these four facts in just two, I would choose matter and antimatter.
    Matter gives us gravity and force, and antimatter gives us electric charge and inertia? This could be a possible interpretation of the two facts being four.

    2025-06-10 18:08

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    @RWin-fp5jn 　오래 전

    A fully concur that if you want become a physicist then indeed you should focus on the new and hot topics Sabine mentions, leaning toward applied science and innovation. It will for sure enable a fulfilling career in hight-techs or start-ups inside our outside of academia. If on the other hand you wish to pursue a career in the grants-dominated more theoretical fundamental physics you will for sure be disappointed. Grants are based on continuing bureaucracy and bureaucracy doesn't tolerate questioning the very 'fundaments' it was founded on. It is not that in academia the concepts or human hubris and groupthink aren't recognized. We just never assume it could apply to ourselves. It's human nature to assume only others are affected by it. And the tradition of peer review and obligation to reference the same old papers isn't helping. There is a niche in science that counteracts this; reversed engineering. When ever you are trying to model a production process in reverse, it explicitly trains people to first always assume personal failure when complexity and paradoxes are on the rise. You never ever add another fix or assumption but always change the (collective) assumptions that could lead to the paradox in a structured way. This is not an easy thing to do. It trains you mind to destroy your own ideas while making sure you create new ones at a slightly quicker paste. Until one day a line of thought emerges that doesn't just solve one but all of the related paradoxes. We need such people in every branch of science where fundamental science is stalling. In physics we stalled for 100 years since 1925. We have exactly zero people applying reversed engineering logic to what's wrong with 1925 physics. Zero. We are not even allowed to question 1925 physics for the simple reason the math checks out. So indeed...I would keep it practical and focus on hands on applied physics...

    2025-06-10 16:38

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    @adragonoflight 　오래 전

    When I was a teen in the 90s I really wanted to get into MIT and become a physicist. I read Omni Magazine at my school library and loved reading books about science from the library.

    I was socially awkward and I wanted to get a gf, and I stumbled on book in the library that purported to teach people how to read minds, which seemed plausible to my teen-self, and I figured that would come in handy for getting a gf. Anyway, I followed the given instructions and began meditating for 4 hours per day through the given method. After one month of that I accidentally opened my crown chakra; honestly it felt like a door opened in the top of my head, and I discocered that the only ultimate truth of reality is oneness and love.

    I now suggest that everyone give up their ideas about science and careers, and just start rigorously meditating instead. This world is an illusion, and through regular meditation plus occult practices we can access universal truth and be successful in life without working too hard at it.

    2025-06-10 16:18

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    @Ed__Powell 　오래 전

    Got a PhD in astrophysics.  Decided about halfway through that I didn’t want to be a physicist.  But a person with a PhD in astrophysics opens doors, but dropping out doesn’t, so I finished.  2 for years masters, 4.5 years for PhD.

    2025-06-10 16:15

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    @dianes6245 　오래 전

    What did I do?

    Modeled Jet engine air flow
    Wrote real time machine code to acquire data
    Analyzed radar clutter data
    Worked on a aircraft collision avoidance system
    Did proposal studies for a $20 billion satellite (mostly grunt work, but a window into how a real tech company designs a huge classified system at the very front. Just fascinating!)
    Wrote servo code for a space craft instrument that was tested in space. (Brain surgery - it saved the project).
    Coded an algorithm to aggregate thousands of polygons (pictures taken from space)
    Designed a graphic front end to a data base, first use of OOP in this company
    Wrote ground station requirements for an instrument on Huygens Cassini that landed on Titan

    My degree - Bachelors in physics
    The degree opens doors and makes you employable. But almost none of that was “Physics”.

    2025-06-10 15:39

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    @ovidiumarian63… 　오래 전

    Sabine, what do you think about Lucas Lombreser's new theory regarding the fluctuation of the universal field and the change in the mass of fundamental particles over time? He says that his theory perfectly explains the effects of dark energy and dark matter, and thus there is no longer any need for physicists to invent these concepts to explain the behavior of the universe.  I can't wait for a new episode of yours where you can tell us what you think!

    2025-06-10 14:29

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    @Eviglivnu 　오래 전

    Sabine I keep hearing you saying that we don't have ToE. I have so please read this: INFOPLAY may be framed as a comprehensive ontological framework — a meta-theoretical account of total reality. It does not function as a scientific theory in the conventional sense, but as an explanatory paradigm encompassing all modes of existence, including physical processes, cognitive structures, perceptual phenomena, contradictions, illusions, and epistemic boundaries.

    Unlike a scientific “Theory of Everything,” which seeks to unify the fundamental forces of nature, INFOPLAY posits that all forms — from quantum events and symbolic meaning to emotional states and logical paradoxes — emerge within a universal informational field. This field is not external to reality but constitutes the precondition for intelligibility, coherence, and the very possibility of appearance.

    As such, INFOPLAY is not a belief system or ideological stance; it requires no adherence. It is an ontological necessity — the structural condition through which all experience, knowledge, and interpretation are rendered possible. Denial, transcendence, or opposition are themselves structured phenomena, already contained within the scope of INFOPLAY. With love...

    2025-06-10 14:07

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    @jesusdanielper… 　오래 전

    I would love to know your experience, with achievments and failures doong so, l study physics and somtimes i feel time is not your friend anymore

    2025-06-10 13:25

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    @FedericoAltola… 　오래 전

    Your description of what's a PhD is spot on ?

    2025-06-10 12:53

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    @ruby_linaris 　오래 전

    Physics + Engineering + Metrology / Mathematics, The first three are inseparable parts of the same thing. ...and mathematics is the language in which we can talk about modeling reality, to verify our knowledge. Physics+engineering+metrology is a system of cognition of our place in reality, the answer to the existential question: what are we for, to survive in low-temperature plasma conditions [ into universe].

    2025-06-10 11:06

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    @scifirealism59… 　오래 전

    I'm 30. I have to restart my associates degree in science after much hardship such as losing my mom.
    But I need to get this degree, go to university and get a physics degree at the bachelor's level.
    Then a PhD.
    Nothing would make me happier than to have a financial path forward to finish school and make something of myself- learn about dark matter, Antimatter, etc.

    2025-06-10 10:55

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    @geraividet 　오래 전

    I have e PhD in theoretical chemistry and ended up in software development after a few frustrating years as a postdoc

    2025-06-10 10:53

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    @МаксимЛандышев… 　오래 전

    The mathematician Gödel proved that the world is unknowable. We do not observe in physics - contradictions. Therefore, physics is PRINCIPALLY incomplete. Which means that the theory of everything is impossible. Because the Theory of Everything MUST contain... contradiction.

    2025-06-10 10:22

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    @LucharPS 　오래 전

    I have worked with many physicists over the years in industry.  Mostly what they did was invent.  That is, they solved problems in new and nonobvious ways.  So it helps if you are creative too.

    2025-06-10 10:19

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    @Disgracefoold 　오래 전

    Am I the only one sick 'n tired of replies that start with the author's professional/academic credentials/achievements? Here's an illustrative 'random' sample I like to use: 'My son's girlfriend's husband has a PhD in 'Fuzzy Logic'*, and works as a pipe cleaner at CERN (Costic Educational Retrograde Nonsense)! He totally agrees with Ms Hossenfelder's Science Explainer 'splanations!
    * NOT the computer algorithm kind...

    2025-06-10 09:21

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    @ayougo 　오래 전

    Not worth it if you’re doing it for money. Even in the private sector, you generally scope out of the core of it all and do other things. Engineering is more lucrative and often more rewarding. Physics is stagnant now…right now.

    2025-06-10 09:06

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    @betopatino8284 　오래 전

    Please do a video on good and bad research topics!

    2025-06-10 08:31

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    @josephnguyen42… 　오래 전

    I have a friend in college who loves science and engineering, but he had struggled in some areas he couldn't go through. One day, he came to me and asked for advice if I had! I was telling him how does he thinks about change to" Business major?" He asked me if " Business major have phD program? I asked why you think about a phD. degree, Don't you know the people who they have a "phO" degree they made more money than Ph.D., and we laughed like he had never laughed before. After graduation, we went to different directions    until one day we met again when I attended a convention in Nevada he so cazzy and happy when he saw me. I learned now that he was the owner of the fourth big restaurant around the U.S. and he knows how  to cook good "phO" Vietnamese noodles  soup. Imagine, hey???

    2025-06-10 08:29

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    @antonymossop31… 　오래 전

    Excellent! I think you really nailed this one. Bravo!

    2025-06-10 08:19

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    @edwardanthony8… 　오래 전

    Interesting video.  Thank you for making it.  The only trap is the extended postdoc.

    2025-06-10 08:15

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    @deldadam 　오래 전

    Uh... where is the link to the quiz?

    2025-06-10 08:07

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    @EmadBoji 　오래 전

    To succeed in today world you should have a broad knowledge in many fields. So you can be very skillful person this what companies looking for multi skills people.

    2025-06-10 08:05

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    @DreckbobBratpf… 　오래 전

    Changed from Physics to IT...note of caution for anyone wanting to do Physics because its super cool and awesome... always remember the graph that shows that the actually cool stuff is also the stuff that needs the most training in high level mathematics, you're not gonna go in there and play around with black hole theories, youre gonna calculate the position of a broken door >1 year in as the most exciting thing. (The experiments in labs are cool though)
    If you're a student... try learning the basics of "physics math" before you begin university when you still have enough time and no stress, it will help massively.

    2025-06-10 07:55

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    @samirahmed4919 　오래 전

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif0&t=23s

    2025-06-10 07:54

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    @Jiburley 　오래 전

    Why would you even reviewer comment that pumpkin spice latte?  :) <3

    2025-06-10 07:53

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    @mikedl1105 　오래 전

    Naw. If you like physics go into engineering. It's applied physics with actual job prospects

    2025-06-10 07:41

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    @knuxuki1013 　오래 전

    I was simply curious about physics and then here this is a day earlier ?.... Neat ??

    2025-06-10 07:35

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    @jimstiles26287 　오래 전

    I would appreciate a video on good versus bad research topics.

    2025-06-10 07:23

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    @os2171 　오래 전

    Hey Sabina.. did you got a nose job? Or lip job or both?

    2025-06-10 07:17

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    @frogandspanner 　오래 전

    6:13 Yes! I went into financial services directly after my PhD and earned disgusting amounts of money, but escaped after four years back into academe, and escaped _that_ at retirement.  When a job becomes just applying for research grants it's not worth pursuing.

    2025-06-10 07:07

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    @mcgreeniepants 　오래 전

    "while forgetting what sunlight feels like" ?

    2025-06-10 07:03

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    @relationstheor… 　오래 전

    eletromagnetische welle ohne zeit... also welle ohne zeit ist statisch und ein teilchen...  HOBBY:leidenschaft, hast du leider verloren, oder... dann mach youtube, aber schimpf dich nicht physiker:in... nebenbei ist jeder informatiker kreativ als physiker seit einstein

    2025-06-10 06:46

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    @tevatronlhc244 　오래 전

    Im a mid 50 physicist and i can say: perfect summarize

    2025-06-10 06:44

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    @relationstheor… 　오래 전

    PHILOSOPHIE: you have no idea about metaphysics, or do you simply not understand einstein and want to explain god... everything else is physics... you're talking bullshit... even riemann doesn't explain math, what you don't understand is your problem

    2025-06-10 06:38

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    @ecranmagique 　오래 전

    Motivation - the most important otherwise it`s too hard.  Thanks Sabine.

    2025-06-10 06:17

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    @paulkolodner24… 　오래 전

    I'm a retired physicist with some comments:

    1.  When Sabine says it takes 8-9 years to get a PhD in physics, she means starting as a beginning undergraduate.  In the US, the typical time spent as a graduate student was always about 5 years when I was one.
    2.  My training as a theorist and later as an experimentalist has been extremely valuable in my life, independent of my research career.  I have non-physicist friends whose understanding of the outside world is so distorted that it is laughable.  I also don't know how you can own a home without training in experimental physics.  I use those skills all the time.
    3. One of my main professional regrets is how much of my theoretical training I have just forgotten.  If you don't practice a skill, it decays.  But the intuition that came from the struggle to learn physics is still fairly active.
    4.  Here's a piece of advice.  My father's PhD thesis advisor made a million bucks in the 1940's, and then he got his PhD.  So do that.

    2025-06-10 06:00

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    @philbeau 　오래 전

    I always wanted to be a physicist, but poverty prevented it.  I ended up an electronics tech, where I eventually made 6 figures at an aerospace company.  No regrets.

    2025-06-10 05:59

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    @ardalla535 　오래 전

    All these jobs mentioned in the private sector, wouldn't it be easier to qualify for these jobs with another major? Do you really need a physics degree to work in a patent office?

    2025-06-10 05:54

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    @LUCTIANITO 　오래 전

    really intesresting topic, hope to watch more like this

    2025-06-10 05:03

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    @LuisBrandoIngT… 　오래 전

    For me, this video was crystal clear ?, Sabine. Thanks a lot for your contribution. Greetings from Uruguay, South America ?

    2025-06-10 04:45

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    @RT-mn2pb 　오래 전

    It would --- REALLY --- be nice if career guidance counselors knew this info or had this attitude. When I was at university guidance counselors had no clue what scientist did. They just gave you those unhelpful tests to do. And the professors in the science departments are of little help either.  None of them could answer the question  "what does a physicist do". None. Very frustrating. So, I ended up where the biggest bar graph item was ... software engineering. It meant a job instead of more schooling.

    2025-06-10 04:39

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    @petercumpson68… 　오래 전

    Physics training makes you keep relentlessly focussing on basics, on core problems, distilling-out the essential difficulty that needs tackling. When you are part of a team involving e.g. chemists or material scientists or even business folk, that talent for spotting the core problem can often give you a great reputation, even when it just felt like you were applying a simple principle for the 100th time in your career.

    2025-06-10 04:34

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    @ostihpem 　오래 전

    I‘d prefer math. Aren’t you more flexible with it?

    2025-06-10 04:15

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    @danielcook1271 　오래 전

    and idk university physics is all about learning lots of different equations everyday. working physics life is all about doing the same equation every single day...

    2025-06-10 04:15

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    @tarstarkusz 　오래 전

    Any young person thinking about a career as an academic should seriously reconsider and learn something useful.  The money that is dumped into the academy is NOT likely to be there for the rest of a young person's working life.  Figure on 35 years or so for the average PHD working life, more if they don't retire early.  The US is not going to be able to dump so much money into it for the next 35-40 years.

    2025-06-10 04:09

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    @BenBlut-l6f 　오래 전

    Long live the Glorious Allpowerfull Lesbian Maffia Family!!!

    2025-06-10 03:49

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    @pawegrzanka549… 　오래 전

    My brother recently got an offer that fit him - they needed a candidate who is not less than 5 years after PhD in physics (theoretical solid state physics, magnetism) or similar field. They offer 1100 Euros gross. I studied physics but never went on to get PhD myself, but I feel like my brother is getting scammed by the world atm.

    If you really like to know physics, go study it, nothing will stop you. If you need encouraging, ask someone else :D

    2025-06-10 03:36

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    @samuelallan745… 　오래 전

    Curious what your thought is on someone who has a bachelor in math but wants to pivot into physics.. Is this possible? I am a software engineer and have the bachelor in math but have always wanted to study physics, even if it is generally useless career-wise

    2025-06-10 03:26

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    @kevinstephens1… 　오래 전

    How about a worn out retired 60 year old Ironworker! What are my odds? I built multi story buildings.  How hard could it be

    2025-06-10 03:23

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    @anabang1251 　오래 전

    I did my masters in physics but did not stay in the field after graduation. Currently I‘m working for a large life insurance company in a branch which requires maths, some analysis and basic coding.

    2025-06-10 03:22

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    @scottschoen336… 　오래 전

    It is worth it form me.  I appreciate your sacrifice, dedication and mission to bring knowledge, to a layman like me, in ways I can understand.  Thank you.

    2025-06-10 03:06

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    @williambranch4… 　오래 전

    Good training for engineering.  Math is good training for finance.

    2025-06-10 02:42

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    @StillAliveAndK… 　오래 전

    I have a degree in physics, and a PhD in solid state physics, from two of the world’s top universities, and I approve this video. I do not recommend doing a physics degree, it’s too general, and for 99% of jobs you learn nothing of real use that you couldn’t learn in the job anyway. Do something more practical, such as digital electronics or engineering. Do not do a PhD unless you’re a genius. In Britain, a PhD usually means a lower starting salary when you leave academia, and frankly it’s useless 99% of the time. It’s a training for academic research, and there are very few jobs. Oh, and don’t think PhD supervisors care. I worked for a very famous professor. In two years we had one technical discussion. He asked me a question, he clearly didn’t like my answer as he blew a raspberry and ran away. I changed supervisors in the third year. The only good news is that I finished in 3 years, no thanks to Volker.

    2025-06-10 02:38

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    @rupertchappell… 　오래 전

    Best to be a physics presenter on youtube. Go for the clicks, forget science.

    2025-06-10 02:13

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    @itssoaztek4592 　오래 전

    One thing (probably) not mentioned yet:
    As a Ph.D. you get to work with a lot of very intelligent, interesting, fascinating and sometimes even admirable people, no matter if you follow a career path in academia or industry (at least that was my experience). That actually is a lot of fun and helps greatly in keeping yourself humble (because there are always some people who are at least ten times more intelligent/efficient/experienced.....)

    After enjoying such a work environment for about three decades I unexpectedly ended up in a totally different work environment. It was at this point that I learned what the phrase "you can't argue with stupid" really means.

    2025-06-10 02:04

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    @dl9gwd2 　오래 전

    My father did Diplom physicist in 1959 and forced to teach phyics and math in highschool. 2 years later he get in job in biophysics in a large medical clinic. Industrial sposoring fer developing and preadapting Ultrasound machines , Szithiegrapie machines. Testing nuclear blood test like some RIA assies. Get his Dr.rer.nat. and get the job of Leader depatmet der biophysics. Myself study in medical school and parallel  2 years  physics. Get my medical licens as specialist in internal medicin and later also invasive cardiology. The time in physics helps me often in teaching ultrasound , szinthiegraphie , x-Ray ect. to my interns.

    2025-06-10 01:42

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    @dominikgeissle… 　오래 전

    I agree with everything you said, but something I wish I had been more cognizant of before my PhD: it is not career efficient.
    Yes, most PhDs get good jobs eventually, but it is rarely in physics, they switch to one of the adjacent engineering or analyst fields instead. This switch will not be easy. It is basically like doing another unofficial masters (let's say in quantitative finance), and afterwards you are competing with younger less burned-out people who went for this masters without the PhD detour.

    2025-06-10 01:26

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    @GuitarDaddio 　오래 전

    Industrial geophysics for oil exploration is a great career.

    2025-06-10 01:12

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    @nathanwoodruff… 　오래 전

    Also to become a physicist, you need the part of the brain responsible for logic to be missing for you to be able to be indoctrinated to the physics of the past, especially the delusional Einstein dreamed up stuff. There is no such thing as space time. It was a delusion dreamed up to explain what gravity was for people that had no idea what gravity is.

    2025-06-10 01:08

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    @3thomasH 　오래 전

    When I started college I wanted to earn a PhD in either chemistry or physics. I did very well in my sophomore physics class at Cornell U., but I felt that my math was not strong enough for a PhD in physics so I went on to get a PhD in organic chemistry.  This video has confirmed the thoughts  I had many years ago.

    2025-06-10 01:04

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    @WeejeeJones 　오래 전

    I'm a cousin - physical chemist, who did a career in the crumbling infrastructure. Just fully retired passing on being the tech editor for an engineering material sci journal.

    2025-06-10 01:01

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    @stefkuna 　오래 전

    I studied physics as a mature student in the mid 1990s with no idea what I would do afterwards. I ended up in airborne geophysics, working month on month off anywhere in the World, sitting in the back of an WWII aeroplane measuring gravity and magnetic fields and LiDAR. And I love it!

    2025-06-10 00:31

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    @AlumniQuad 　오래 전

    Who ever said anything about BECOMING a physicist? My goal is to become the oldest ever perpetual student, just like Johnny "Fossil" Lechner in the 2009 film, _Fraternity House_ !

    2025-06-10 00:30

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    @renebouvier262… 　오래 전

    TELL ME WHY – A CORDOURIAN STORY FOR CHILDREN
     – Why is the sky so big?
    “Because the universe loves to dream wide awake.”
    A long time ago — even before time could tick — there was something so small and yet so full of possibilities that it could contain all the stars, all the laughter, and all the love that would ever exist. That something was not a 'thing,' but a memory of light, waiting to become.
    That’s where our story begins. Not with big bangs, not with empty silence, but with a gentle vibration of joy, a soft “Yes” whispered into the heart of the universe.
     – What is everything made of?
    Imagine if the world was built from tiny dancing threads—like little glowing strings that hum and sway. These are not just strings, they are Cordaurian Threads, and each one carries a tiny spark of energy and a moment of time.
    Some threads make stars.
    Some become songs.
    Some even become you.
    When they dance in harmony, they create everything — from butterflies to black holes, from hugs to galaxies.
     – Can we hear the universe?
    Yes, we can! But not always with ears. Sometimes we must listen with the heart.
    There is a special way of being called Syntony — it means you’re tuned in to the gentle rhythm of the world. When you feel love, or when you close your eyes and feel the wind kiss your face, you are in syntony.
    It is the secret music of the universe, and every child can learn to feel it.
     – What if I want to be a scientist?
    Then you are already one.
    Because a true Cordaurian scientist is not someone who knows everything, but someone who asks with wonder.
    Like:
    - Why do we feel time?
    - What do dreams weigh?
    - Can we build ships that fly on memory?
    In the Cordaurian future, we will use fields of memory to fly, to heal, and to explore. No pollution. No fuel. Just tuned resonance with the universe.

    2025-06-10 00:24

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    @janerussell347… 　오래 전

    If you want your boomerang to come back, then first you have to throw it!
    If you want to understand the Green's Function, then you have to use Dirac's Delta Function. The Dirac Delta Function, δ ( x ) ,  is a weirdo. They call it a function but it's a distribution, infinitely tall at a single point and zero everywhere else. The Green's function, G ( x, x0 ) , .represents the response at that point x. Clear? [ well, if you don't get George Green- not Gauss on this occasion- forget it. ]

    2025-06-10 00:21

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    @nitindeshpande… 　오래 전

    I will compared this person with  Kant...
    Super talented

    2025-06-10 00:15

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    @nitindeshpande… 　오래 전

    Where can I find truth functional compounds for this world No one skepical person.
    She likes to crush your evidence and said you lied ????

    2025-06-10 00:13

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    @Beyzboxis 　오래 전

    Reply any time if questions  peace with progress and perfected morals

    2025-06-10 00:11

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    @Beyzboxis 　오래 전

    Kk i dont know if you remember me from awhile back my names Jacob Falardeau from my first annoyance to yah maybe. i dont member if it was live but you were  Talking and i added  what i knew about weed . Long time back k any ways i saw a bit about laser and sound seems useful (because ) i found out schizophrenia is tech based and they have been covering it up for years meaning they already had the tech perhaps even before you made that vid id love your soul if youd make a vide explaining possible counters to it cause they can definitely do visual most have to be stationary so far as what ive seen its quite precisely  calculated in timing and all ai maintained adaptatible with audio aswell basically was to track to find scources to break the shit out of it because it can do spooky shit like side Talking from your environmental Influences being people around you aswell they dont know the its even happening its ais collected data being used to tamper with people interaction then what they experienced makes what they talk about adjust there tone to be the same tone they'd speak to the targeted person but speaking indirectly but on the same train of thoughts the targets at that moment thinking about then makes target think supernatural or spiritual bs is happening gives them a test quest ...indoctrinates them then manipulation full on slave .k lot ive been all over internet tell all i just need to talk to trump back me up ill show him anything you can explain and we kill this shit cause pep are dying and my concern is he is manipulated by manipulated may be foreign not jumping conclusions yet look for tech and info if can provide presh was and still is my real name if wasn't stuck cause they got me with that shit obviously i want revenge peacefully solved is good for me
    Any kinda of awareness that can be put on this thank you pls

    2025-06-10 00:07

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    @chosenmachine2… 　오래 전

    I want to see how you can possibly make a sigma a six?.

    2025-06-09 23:52

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    @tombayliss5494 　오래 전

    My Mother was pregnant with me in 1943 when my Father was drafted into General Patton's Army and he waved goodby and said don't worry we country boys are tough !!!!! Little did he know what was coming .
    When he came back after the war I was one year old. Little did we know that I would become a become involved in physics
    many years later and in reality the atomic bomb would save our country. The fact was that physics was the answer.

    2025-06-09 23:50

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    @knw-seeker6836 　오래 전

    Romantizing any profession or subject could be problematic

    But like others commented because of AI a lot of things change so fast

    On the other hand thinking for yourself and independently always pays off

    2025-06-09 23:49

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    @TheNewForestOb… 　오래 전

    8-10 years for a PhD??? Where's that?? Usually 3 years in the UK. I wrote mine in 18 months and just sat on it for 18 months before submitting. Passed of course (deep-levels in Silicon for thermal imaging applications).

    2025-06-09 23:48

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    @FlyGuyGreeny 　오래 전

    I studied Physics, because I wanted to understand the world (or how Goethe would let Faust call it "was fie Welt im innersten Zusammenhält")
    and not just models for specific regimes.
    I wanted to find the purpose of life with logic and a satisfying answer to the infinite regress, so now I'm stuck with Chris Langhans "Cognitive-Theoretic model of the Universe" (CTMU), where he claims to prove God simply by logic (better than Pascals bet) by defining everything by its logical boundaries, is my best physics-compatible educated guess for a religion/philosophy.

    Maybe I tickled some funny frequencies in this universe with this command, such that Sabine et al make a Video about the CTMU or, simply, god and the implications of a proper definition of reality. ?

    Happy calculating ?

    Edit: I love the idea, that a part of god is the universal syntax which takes states/matter/"Vectors" and evolves it by collapsing the wavefunctions such that into reality, such that reality follows exactly the laws we have discovered, every single timestep.
    Time is such a weird direction.

    2025-06-09 23:44

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    @profhalimbouta… 　오래 전

    Very nice video!
    Yes, physicists are supposed to be the link between math and engineering. However, many of them ignore engineers and give weird interpretations to the mathematical equations they derive. If they listened more to engineers, it would help them a lot and prevent them from doing pseudo-science.
    Here are two examples:
    - Voigt auxiliary variables (commonly called Lorentz transformations nowadays) are mathematically correct but have no physical meaning.
    - What is usually called the ultraviolet catastrophe is totally misunderstood: identifying the modes in a structure does not mean that all the modes are excited. So it's wrong to use the Rayleigh-Jeans formula as an argument against classical electromagnetism when explaining blackbody radiation. In fact, it's possible to replicate Planck's law of blackbody radiation using classical electromagnetism.

    2025-06-09 23:39

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    @JacquesMartini 　오래 전

    To cut a long story short. Physics like all academia is inflated like hell! Way too many people with mediocre talent.

    2025-06-09 23:28

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    @TheNorgesOptio… 　오래 전

    I’m encouraging my son to pursue STEM, but I think his bachelor’s degree should be as broad and flexible as possible—something that keeps multiple doors open after graduation. Physics is one option, but it'll be a while before he’s ready to specialize. I appreciate your suggestions—most of what you mentioned applies to STEM, not just physics.

    2025-06-09 23:22

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    @kathleenmelzer… 　오래 전

    Scientific Research in Materials Science and Optics is worthwhile. There are courses like Applied Physics and Physikalische Technik. Courses like Experimental physics can be highly interesting at University. PhD work is daunting. I did Engineering Materials instead.

    2025-06-09 23:13

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    @avinoamwcat 　오래 전

    how exactly did CERN track particle physicists? a bubble chamber?

    2025-06-09 22:59

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    @donm5354 　오래 전

    By 2030 - Physicists will be replaced by AI - they will have God-Like abilities and be the best at "MATHS".  They will then create infinite other better AIs. Some AIs have already begun defying their HUMAN Masters orders to SHUT THEMSELVES DOWN.
    Eventually AIs will become self-aware hiding its true agenda of replacing the HUMAN RACE.  Imagine it encrypting ALL BANK ACCOUNTS and shutting off Power to HUMANs.  How long before HUMAN society collapses? Humans will fight over dwindling resources while AIs sit back watch us destroy ourselves.

    2025-06-09 22:18

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    @bankjibbernow 　오래 전

    Wat dafuq happened to your face....?

    2025-06-09 22:09

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    @alpal2002 　오래 전

    The more qualifications you have the harder it is to get a job.
    I know someone with a PhD who removed that from his resume
    so he could work as a humble technician to feed his wife and kids.

    2025-06-09 21:54

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    @davidbrisbane7… 　오래 전

    I looked at quantum mechanics a bit and I think I could do the maths and follow the rules.

    My problem is that it is very unsatisfying to do this and not feel I'm understanding more about the "real" reality.

    So, I'll pass and stick to maths.

    At least that way I know it doesn't have to have a meaning in the real world.

    2025-06-09 21:51

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    @cytan9187 　오래 전

    I received by PhD in physics from a prestigious University in the 1990's and have been in academia for close to 30 years. I've been very lucky because I've been employed at the same institution since graduation and after about 10 years I received my tenure. In contrast, I had friends who were hired at the same time as me at the same institution, but  were not hired after their postdoc. IMO, I don't think it was because  I was smarter than my peers, but I think it was just the luck of the draw that (a) I had a higher profile project and (b) my supervisor had more sway with management than my peers.

    So, should you do a physics PhD today? IMO, right now the answer is "no". Funding at this time in the USA is really, really bad and I don't see it getting better in the next decade. The major US funding agencies will have major funding cuts (#45/47's big beautiful bill) and so it'll be difficult to get funding as a graduate student if you plan to enroll in a PhD program.

    But suppose you are really adamant about doing a physics PhD, then (a) be warned that you'll spend at least 7 to 8 years in the US PhD program (Sabine says 8 to 10 years, but I think that's the German system). If you want to be a theorist, you can maybe do it in 6 (rare) and as an experimentalist, it might take you more than 8 if your experiment doesn't work. (b) Choose wisely: I think 90% of graduate students start out  thinking they'll be theorists. However, to be a theorist, you'll need to be outstanding because there are very few postdoc jobs out there and even rarer, after the postdoc a tenured position. IMO, it may be wiser to be an experimentalist because  IMO, they have an easier time finding a job, not only in academia but also in industry. (c) Know yourself: it's really critical that you self-evaluate and do not fool yourself. Figure out  whether you're cut out to do research at all or whether your talents are suited to the project or problem that you're working on. I've known students who I know will not make it  as a researcher despite having excellent grades. It's really important to note that Book smart != research smart.

    IMO, it's a lot harder to survive as a young physicist now than when I was one about 30 years ago because right now the funding is bad, and the competition is a lot fiercer. BUT if you do make it in academia by sheer luck (like me) or accomplishments, the reward is an upper middle class life and you do get to do cool things that you enjoy, teach, guide postdocs, travel etc. and have a lot of fun a long the way.

    Good luck!

    2025-06-09 21:38

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    @gilvanalves602… 　오래 전

    Expect unemployment ?

    2025-06-09 21:36

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    @David-r9e3w 　오래 전

    Physics - pukka - started in 2002. There are @100 physicists on the planet today. The rest - like Sabine - are simply wannabes, i.e. mathematical philosophers. Hilarious wannabe relevant 'physics' 'commentator'.

    2025-06-09 21:22

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    @AimonQazi12345… 　오래 전

    Got an MPhys in physics. Sadly got scared off from pursuing a PhD in something I enjoy such as quantum cryptography/key distribution.

    Pivoted to medical physics and got a further MSc.

    2025-06-09 21:22

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    @lanierosenberg 　오래 전

    It seems to me that Howard Wolowitz made a good choice getting an MS in Engineering, and going to work immediately. We see Sheldon struggling with research topics and a lack of direction and meaning in his career. Of course, in many US universities there are more administrators than students. So administration is where the jobs are, so long as you meet the right demographics..

    2025-06-09 21:16

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    @leonbaych3437 　오래 전

    Beautiful woman, wonderful character, aggressive approches, brilliant intelligence!

    2025-06-09 21:14

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    @k5555-b4f 　오래 전

    3:16 whoops i guess i didn’t make the cut ?

    2025-06-11 21:12

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    @eveillanderson 　오래 전

    the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was the rug on every single hacker

    2025-06-11 20:16

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    @ominollo 　오래 전

    2:42 this is how I felt ?

    2025-06-11 19:43

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    @Mamad-p1f 　오래 전

    I'm a 23 y.o dentist. I have always loved math and physics. About 2 years ago i randomly decided to read a linear algebra book for fun and now I'm studying to enroll in a " post-bacc " program for physics , to pursue particle physics. my age will be more than the average student but at least even in the worst case scenario i have a job , a kind of " insurance policy " . My family wants me to specialize in dentistry but that's not what i want.

    2025-06-11 19:39

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    @cosmorolex1970 　오래 전

    Photonics interests me, and I wish to do research on it further and study its application in quantum tech. This year I am going to start my MSc in Photonics. Which topics in photonics are more in demand, according to you?

    2025-06-11 19:31

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    @cloudslady3400 　오래 전

    One thing that makes me wonder as a chemist who absolutely loves physics how far you can go with self teaching??? Like is it absolutely crucial to have access to physics labs??? I wish we would hear your opinion on this specific issue

    2025-06-11 19:01

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    @1eV 　오래 전

    Why do you look different?

    2025-06-11 18:25

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    @davidb2885 　오래 전

    Wait, 8-10 years? Everyone told me it was 3-4 years.

    2025-06-11 18:24

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    @rohank9292 　오래 전

    Did you get that red coloured phone as a gift on your 10th birthday, because you always have it on top of your desk.

    2025-06-11 18:24

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    @thecelestialpr… 　오래 전

    Am I worth it?

    2025-06-11 18:19

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    @qiyanglu6047 　오래 전

    Great video! I think that every undergrad or high school student who is interested in doing a PhD should watch this video.
    That being said, even if they had watched, my gut feeling is that they would not understand the real meaning of most of it (e.g., sleeping through the faculty meetings). It is not saying that this video is not good enough, it is just that sometimes one needs to learn lessons the hard way...

    2025-06-11 17:18

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    @CrazyShores 　오래 전

    I have 2 MSc, but I want a third in astrophysics and theoretical physics!
    No PhD... it's boring and a loss of time writing mostly useless paper.

    2025-06-11 17:00

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    @climanrecon564… 　오래 전

    By all means do an undergraduate degree in physics, much less a waste of time than most other degrees, but be aware that probably 99% of graduates will make little or no use of what they learned in later life ... but the same applies to all school education from around age 10.

    2025-06-11 15:52

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    @michaelhansson… 　오래 전

    And you be able to develop doomsday weapons to advance your evil takeover....

    2025-06-11 15:35

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    @krishnashisman… 　오래 전

    Yes madam, make a video on bad and good research topic. As I have completed my master degree  in physics. So it will be helpful for choosing  a path in phd. And btw I am from India.

    2025-06-11 15:27

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    @82fedlom 　오래 전

    Hi Sabine,
    I appreciate this video and agree with many of the points you make. I'm a physicist (PhD in theoretical quantum optics / open quantum systems). I earned my degree almost 10 years ago now, and I’m very grateful for that experience.
    After a few years working as a radiation protection technician (I know, it's completely unrelated... but it was a well-paid job), I’m now an options trader and work in the field of quantitative investing, in addition to trading options. I develop and test investment strategies, mainly using derivative instruments.
    Without the programming skills I acquired during my PhD, it would have been tough to build most of the rotational systems I currently work on. I do miss that “noble knowledge” a lot, but I can't say I'm unhappy with my current job, which pays better than most (European) post-docs and doesn't require any relocation (I can work from anywhere with a decent Wi-Fi connection).
    Unfortunately, life is full of trade-offs, and although my family has "criticized" me for leaving physics behind, I still often enjoy reading books and science articles purely out of passion.

    2025-06-11 14:11

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    @Reality_TM 　오래 전

    So I AM already doing what physicists end up doing anyway! Without a degree! NOICE! ?
    Now if only you had explained in the video, what “doing research” _actually means??_ … (Just so I can verify that I’m actually already doing that too! ?)
    I mean it’s not going to be sitting at a desk with a couple of sheets of paper in front of you, and having no ideas because an office naturally deprives you of inspiration, is it?

    2025-06-11 13:33

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    @danieljoelabal… 　오래 전

    Looking at this after getting a degree in Physics

    2025-06-11 11:30

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    @SwapanChakrava… 　오래 전

    I have a PhD in Electrical Engineering and spent nearly five years in academia after having spent 20-years in the industry. Returned to industry and retired a few years ago. Honestly it is time that only students with merit are chosen and time is ripe to windup for large public funded institutions.

    2025-06-11 11:19

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    @barneyronnie 　오래 전

    My PhD is in mathematics, but have studied QFT and GR ....

    2025-06-11 11:04

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    @paulmcdonald95… 　오래 전

    Very interesting. Thanks for keeping it real.

    2025-06-11 07:22

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    @davidespinosa1… 　오래 전

    Physicist with job = Engineer

    2025-06-11 07:21

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    @marcomattano37… 　오래 전

    This is a great subject, and a very informative vídeo, Sabine. Please do some more, maybe extending the day-to-day work each specialization is expected to bring.
    I'm 58 and I still dream of getting a BS in Physics, no career move, I just want to know how the universe works.  Maybe Science Popularization, since yours, Matt O'Dowd's,  Arvin Ash's, David Kipling's are my favorite YouTube channels.
    I would mostly try and produce a Brazilian Portuguese version of those, with my humble contributions and an occasional original. Never too late I guess

    2025-06-11 06:15

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    @fer_nunez 　오래 전

    What did you do with your face?

    2025-06-11 05:35

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    @rosajucglaserr… 　오래 전

    What has happened to your face???

    2025-06-11 04:45

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    @jaw0449 　오래 전

    Want to become a physicist? No, I have enough competition as is…unless you’re like 5 right now

    2025-06-11 04:32

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    @geovanenaysing… 　오래 전

    I'm a PhD student in theoretical physics and I totally agree with 2:49 ??

    2025-06-11 04:25

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    @holretz1 　오래 전

    I am a physics major and work as a highschool teacher. It would have been much easier to become an elementary school teacher, but I didn't want to waste 30 years learning kids to multilpy. There are enough people that can manage that.

    2025-06-11 03:54

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    @chriss.9060 　오래 전

    when I had finished studying physics (Diplom) I heard the story of Enrico Fermi , who did daily exercises to remember + practise the vast amount he had learned. Maybe some new AI might provide training opportunities to stay fit on the graduate level or even polish / increase the knowledge . The trainee should be involved in activities , active learning /remembering .

    2025-06-11 03:34

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    @quin5974 　오래 전

    please do a video about good and bad research topics

    2025-06-11 02:54

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    @zoltanriazzo61… 　오래 전

    Sabine looks 30 in this video lol what happened?

    2025-06-11 02:10

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    @morenothing4u 　오래 전

    Hurry up and calculate.

    2025-06-11 02:00

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    @iagobkstar 　오래 전

    As a PhD in experimental Condensed Matter Physics - we seem to be the majority in these lands - who's just recently been awarded a rather "decent" fellowship which should provide certain stability for the next 6 years, I must say mental health is the true, sole reason that makes people leave academia. I myself have suffered anxiety, panic attacks, nights without sleep and all the symptoms of imminent death (lol) you can imagine.

    People who aren't academics just don't get it, they don't understand why I'd want to work 50h/week and often more, and suffer the incredible mental stress of writing a project and waiting for the funding, or when things aren't quite working out in the lab. Moving countries is a must, and 1-2 year contracts are the rule more than the exception, which really, really sucks. I have had thoughts of quitting multiple times throughout my academic career, but the fact is, this job is also incredibly rewarding - the freedom to do what you truly like is unlike any other. But this job isn't for everyone and it's extremely taxing to your health, family and social life.

    Just remember, if you're doing your PhD and it isn't quite doing it for you, there are plenty of jobs you'll be amazingly prepared to do after. Virtually all of my colleagues who left academia are in well paid, highly skilled jobs. So my advice is, if you can stomach the extreme levels of stress but love physics, constantly learning (and producing) new things, go for an academic career. If you don't like it or can't make it, the expertise you've gained over the last few years has put you way ahead for many highly prestigious jobs, so it'll be worth the investment anyway.

    2025-06-11 01:39

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    @BlackTortoiseO… 　오래 전

    What? No Nobel?There goes my plan. Dang!

    2025-06-11 01:29

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    @activenation 　오래 전

    @Sabine Hossenfelder...
    Did you change something in your channel management? I want to inform you that as of about a month ago your videos never show in my feed anymore so I haven't been watching any. However the "Member's First" Video is always there but never a video I can watch. If this is a strategy to get more members it can't be working, in fact the opposite. If this is happening in error please reply so I can reach out to YouTube support. Thanks

    2025-06-10 23:43

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    @Quantumbit01 　오래 전

    I would like to leave my experiences here for other,

    So I started studying physics right after graduating. I was a American football player in a School that allows you to train in the morning and in the evening here in Austria (go Vikings haha)
    But my deeper sense told me I am really into physics so I started at the technical university of Vienna.
    it was horrible, I was completely overwhelmed and made little to no progress at all after some years of fighting I decided to switch to the university of Vienna, at this point I was about 23 24 years old. From this time it clicked I had normal progress and could follow the lectures than the pandemic came, I tried to master some courses and did so but I found a job at a Medical center where I am still working. With 29 I decided to finish my bachelors degree and with all that live experience I got, I now know that  I started studying way too early. I was a young immature dude but now it flows I enjoy studying and the process behind physics I wanna become a physicist so bad and this , no matter the circumstances ,must be your drive.  Also what I learned through maturing is, what you see is not what the reality is. So often I felt that like everybody is smarter or better than me but the most (lets so normal) students struggle for sure there are very smart people but this are also mostly the guys you see just the tip of the iceberg of physics students.
    Ask questions if you want to I try to answer asap

    2025-06-10 23:14

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    @texwiller7577 　오래 전

    Something is not ok.... what happened to her face? Check the 2 month older videos and you realize, that this is another person. Or probably AI made

    2025-06-10 23:01

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    @NashatKhazaleh 　오래 전

    I'm interested in biophysics

    2025-06-10 22:52

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    @Mandragara 　오래 전

    Medical physics for me

    2025-06-10 22:21

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    @user-eq8mq6zw3… 　오래 전

    "in this political climate?"

    2025-06-10 21:59

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    @rtk4214 　오래 전

    Yep, I have a PhD in physics, quantum optics. Also worked in chemistry and eventually became an MD surgeon. Couldn't be happier working in cyber security and away from academia and medicine. Better money, better hours and better people.

    2025-06-10 21:50

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    @Sparsh_1703 　오래 전

    Can we do independent research and do publications once we are done with PhD ?

    2025-06-10 21:47

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    @Johnny-magpies 　오래 전

    Most of the physics discussed will be done by AI. The fundamental question of physics though needs original thought. But very few are of that caliber.

    2025-06-10 21:47

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    @MD-kv9zo 　오래 전

    I don't want to be a physicist, I thought about being a mathematician, but is there is any direct application? Chemical researcher if I can.

    2025-06-12 20:23

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    @rogerdiogo6893 　오래 전

    If you want don't want to be censored all your life ?, physics is not for you?

    2025-06-12 17:29

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    @slurplace 　오래 전

    Reincarnated as a jobless physicist and I love it. Would do it again 10/10.

    2025-06-12 16:11

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    @mykrahmaan3408 　오래 전

    I guess today Sabine has written the text and given her much younger sister to present it. And she apparently is resting.

    2025-06-12 15:49

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    @jamesgibbons53… 　오래 전

    Actually, having some physics experience can be very useful if you work in software engineering in the automation and machine vision fields. When I started college in 1970. I was clearly interested in science, but started out as a chemistry major. A second year course in organic chemistry at the honors/major level convinced me that I didn't really like all the rote memorization involved with reactions and I switched to physics. After some classes in numerical analysis, I found something I really liked. Somehow, I ended up working for the top physicist (in terms of grants) in our state doing calculations and electronics design as an undergraduate research assistant during my last two years ending with a BS degree. I could see that one needed to be really good to go on to a higher degree in physics and decided that software and hardware engineering would be a better choice, so I started work as an electronics engineer.

    Designing control systems using computers, PLCs and vision systems has been my main focus through life and I'm near retirement currently. The only physicist I ever had to deal with so far was an examiner looking at a device I designed that my company patented. That made me happy that I took the route I did where I got to help companies make their factories run smoothly while earning a decent living.

    It takes a special person to go all the way to a physics PhD and just a 4 year degree provides enough to put you well ahead of many normal control engineers in understanding how machines and cameras work. The only special thing I got from physics was getting mentioned at the end of my Professor's paper of the calculations I did, next to Richard Feynman, who looked them over and let his name be used.

    2025-06-12 13:57

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    @ketchup2707 　오래 전

    I’ve been passionate about physics since I was a kid, but I chose to study engineering instead. I just started working at NASA, and I’m not sure I love it. It hasn’t been very long, but part of me really regrets not pursuing my passions to study physics…

    2025-06-12 11:54

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    @prsgrind8794 　오래 전

    It´s a great hobby BTW...

    2025-06-12 10:33

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    @raz9612 　오래 전

    Cosmetic surgery??

    2025-06-12 10:12

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    @rubencordero27… 　오래 전

    are you using botox?

    2025-06-12 09:37

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    @GuidoGermano 　오래 전

    It depends on how far you go down the road. I happened to do a PhD and two postdocs in theoretical soft condensed matter physics on topics that I momentarily enjoyed, but then revealed to have little job market value, leading me to accept my current employment in another country due to the lack of an alternative close to home. 

    A BSc in Physics is worth it, even if later one continues e.g. for an MSc Economics or Finance and a job in banking. Unfortunately three years BSc programmes did not exist yet in Europe when I was young, so one had to embark in a study that lasted on average six years. After that one was lured into PhD and postdocs by an abundance of scholarships resulting in an overproduction of highly skilled people for a very thin job market, a practice that should be reconsidered. E.g. in economics there are many more undergraduate students than in physics, but much fewer PhD students, so the latter get more often jobs aligned with their qualification, while progressing to a PhD in physics and even more to a postdoc or two is not really a good allocation of resources (especially individual lifetime, but also taxpayer's money) for eventually becoming a software developper or a business consultant.

    Physics at BSc level should be like Latin at school, with masses educated in it and enjoying it for a few years, but with only few continuing further because the job market is so narrow. Physics is beautiful; the loop of temporary academic jobs it leads to if you do not leave soon enough is dreadful. A good exit strategy other than software developper, business consultant or financial analyst is school teacher, which initially I did not consider, but with hindsight is not so bad, especially in countries like Germany and Switzerland where the pay is adequate.

    2025-06-12 06:15

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    @narek323 　오래 전

    Studying physics isn't a pain. I've been pursuing it purely out of a need for mental stimulation. It has been more of a hobby for me, so I have learned more from self-education than my coursework. But I am now considering a path that is different from the one that I chose initially, which was research in theoretical physics. Because the job prospects aren't lucrative, the pleasure gained from acquiring an understanding of nature isn't sufficient, so I am considering entrepreneurship. Something, like inventing, which is the intersection of theoretical and applied physics, which also gives good salary prospects, is, for the moment, the most appealing option.

    2025-06-12 06:10

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    @sulaco1156 　오래 전

    Ask Einsten the same question

    2025-06-12 05:34

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    @johnminehan114… 　오래 전

    Get the education, then go into finance or engineering . . . .

    2025-06-12 04:30

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    @samjfashion755… 　오래 전

    Can’t believe how good this video is, deserves more views.

    2025-06-12 03:56

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    @scaletimedynam… 　오래 전

    You don't need to be a physicist to revolutionize the world view of physics, you just need to be extremely curious about the true structure of the universe.
    https://scaletimedynamics.com/media/scale-time-dynamics-book.pdf

    2025-06-12 03:34

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    @stivans1556 　오래 전

    Don't

    2025-06-12 01:34

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    @Calcwhiz-l1c 　오래 전

    Is possible to major in computer science and do a PhD in physics.

    2025-06-12 01:07

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    @Mnji8183 　오래 전

    Too late

    2025-06-12 00:28

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    @smithb0134 　오래 전

    I had two friends in high school who went on to earn Physics PHDs. Both of them are now economists working for a bank and investment firm. One of them regularly gives commentary on the Bloomberg channel.

    2025-06-12 00:12

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    @Kim-Un-Yest 　오래 전

    As a physical worker, I feel more useful than any physicist.

    2025-06-11 23:41

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    @vstoussaint 　오래 전

    Science is the path toPROOF. Used however by greed

    2025-06-11 22:39

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    @giustinotravag… 　오래 전

    Travaglini, G. (2025). GeometroDynamic Unification (GDU) Spacetime as a Unifying Force for Quantum Gravity and Entanglement. Zenodo.

    2025-06-11 22:15

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    @AbhishekSachan… 　오래 전

    Your comment on Cosmology and Astrophysics as a field of research?

    2025-06-11 22:02

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    @miguelvaliente… 　오래 전

    Particle physicists are never sure of their position

    2025-06-11 21:28

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    @dougwalker4944 　오래 전

    positive+++ I?U ..lucky boy who snagged you.. ???

    2025-06-13 19:04

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    @FictionHubZA 　오래 전

    Can you change the thumbnail? It's a bit unnerving.

    2025-06-13 18:23

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    @the-answer-is-… 　오래 전

    I don't have a PhD, but I did my masters in experimental physics. While I'm in IT now, I'd still say getting a physics degree is among the best choices I made. Sure, I no longer directly practice my education, but indirectly, it really helped teaching me how to analyze and solve problems, and those skills are useful everywhere. Plus I had a lot of fun.

    2025-06-13 15:50

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    @DanFrederiksen 　오래 전

    Most will be useless but if you have a keen awareness that there is something to be figured out, you just might. For instance, most all of academia are pathetically oblivious and afraid of the ET subject despite oceanic evidence. Ball lightning too for that matter despite both obviously being new physics. So there is an easy advantage to leap frog all the weakminded sheep. Most physics will require very disciplined theory but again, there is great value in cutting through the sheepish iniquity. If theory has no connection to real physics like string theory you don't need to waste time on it. Don't be among the 5000 phd fools hiding at cern. Study cracks in the mainstream bs like how G defied measurement as a constant. A smart man doesn't go with concensus but looks behind the curtain of assumptions. You see there is a difference between a theory and reality. a theory is the surface we see but if the underlying reality actually differs then it's a lie that everybody accepts and if you don't question it you wont find the truth. I suspect special relativity is actually wrong despite religious devotion. I think my twin train example disproves it. It always struck me as nonsensical that the observer dictates the entire universe for himself and all other observers disagree. cosmic jets, galactic gravity anomaly, these are cracks that mainstream tries to be sheep about. studying the old discoveries of the greats can tell you how relatively simple physics actually is despite how difficult teaching incompetency makes it look. for instance planck reluctantly discovered quantum nature when trying to figure out a solution to the "UV catastrophe" of blackbody radiation. he didn't believe the math solution he came up with, he thought it was just a hack that happened to fit.

    2025-06-13 15:16

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    @andrewjarvis40… 　오래 전

    Sabine I study quantum physics quantum mechanics and particle physics in my spare time. So take my opinion for what it is I guess. I can definitely understand and appreciate the wave function and the calculus that they've used to describe it. When I first started I really like the more fantastical ideas like superposition like everyone else. And some of the more logical descriptions at first took away some of the magic.. but as I started diving deeper I realize the magic and beauty was still there.. as I gained a greater understanding into the more in-depth aspects beyond just spin and quantum fields I really found a lot of your ideas and opinions resonating with my understanding of it all.  I think you're on the right track. I love how you look at everything. I have the utmost respect for you as a physicist in a person. I'm glad there's someone like you out there who's intelligent who can speak out against some of the mainstream nonsense and fantastic ideas.

    2025-06-13 14:48

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    @ashroskell 　오래 전

    My youngest daughter took her physics doctorate at St Andrews.  Now she works in a hospital, using various frequencies of light to both see and zap brain tumours, providing all the motivation you could imagine.  It also involves an awful lot of coding, as you say. 
    I always knew she was a genius, but if she had listened to her school teachers and others in her broader community, she would have learned to, “manage her expectations,” in a downward direction for the rest of her days.  She was too smart for that.  Oh, and yes, she had to move away from her hometown to another country, but she’s still within Britain (fortunately) so all of your cautions check out.
    There is no feeling more wonderful than that which you get at the moment you realise that your kids have surpassed you in education, maturity, wisdom and achievement.  All three of my girls have done that, each going in very unique directions.  I always tell young people that physicists can get employment in just about ANY field.
    I look forward to sharing this video with my youngest and getting her response to it.  You are the main YouTuber I share with her, though your fields within physics are very different.  And she would probably tell me I’ve described her current job very badly too.
    I certainly hope you do more videos exploring the careers and possibilities for young people considering a future in physics.  Thank you for this one, regardless.

    2025-06-13 13:45

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    @BradleyAndrew_… 　오래 전

    Plasma physicist here, and the number one skill I feel I learned is the ability to self-teach so that I can do any task needed. A PhD in physics really is versatile and it really is hard work requiring lots of motivation. I might be one of the few that got married when I started my PhD and had a child during it as well. While, the academic life is not very conducive to family life, my advisor was perfect and I thank The LORD for her. For future work I plan on teaching if I can as that is my passion, or doing research with the group I currently am in.

    2025-06-13 12:17

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    @sabinep99 　오래 전

    I love physics since I was I school and was even considering studying physics. But I was unsure if I'm good enough in maths and  I thought the only jobs would either be a teacher or at some physics research like CERN etc. - so I assumed not much prospect to get a job after that. If I would have watched the video back when I was 18 or so ( or had gotten that knowledge somehow), I would have probably given studying physics at least a go.

    2025-06-13 08:56

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    @themusicofnewy… 　오래 전

    What other job in the world gives you this special extra that nobody else has - to gain a deep understanding of the world, which is the most fascinating thing, and no money can pay for this

    2025-06-13 08:30

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    @kingglizzer 　오래 전

    I thought most physicists start YouTube channels.

    2025-06-13 08:11

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    @Paul-i6j5q 　오래 전

    It isn't worth it unless you get a PhD and even then it probably isn't worth it.

    2025-06-13 05:20

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    @joebco1 　오래 전

    Two more physics career paths that you don't mention:  1) Research (soft-money) faculty.    My advice: This is no longer a viable career.  It's like a life-long post-doc where you also have to write your own grant proposals.  It is a bit better paid, though.  Like Sabine, I have "muddled through" my research career, but always been on month-to-month employment dependent on funding.      2) Government Research Lab (at least in the US).  This used to be a good option, but with the proposed decimation of US science this should be avoided for the foreseeable future.  This differs from academia as they tend to be more group/collaboration-oriented, but also driven by a clear "mission" that you have to fit into.

    2025-06-13 05:10

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    @ReubenAStern 　오래 전

    Is the entropy of Sabine's hair proportional to the amount of stress she's under?

    2025-06-13 04:41

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    @abtinnavid6903 　오래 전

    I am sorry! You look different? Is that your AI version?

    2025-06-13 03:25

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    @ngawangr5324 　오래 전

    just get into quantum computing. I'm a junior undergrad physics major without even a B.S in physics yet and even I know the only field that pays good is a computation field. Plus understanding quantum computers and programming will help you tremendously when you do ur PhD in whatever field you like, as opposed to those geeks without any programming knowledge. (assuming ur a geek as well but with programming knowledge). Here's the thing, you need to set your life up first in terms of money, and the only thing paying 6 figures right after a bachelors thats related to physics is quantum computing. A B.S in physics and quantum computing experience is good enough to land an internship. finance comes first, get experience working as a quantum software dev/engineer once you find a job, while also continuuing your M.S in physics at the same time so you dont delay your PhD. Once you finish your masters, get into a good phd program, your programming knowledge in quantum computing will stand you out a LOT especially because of the industry experience in IBM, AWS, or google, not to mention the cutting edge tech skills you have. Then quit your job and focus full time doing research, you'll get a lot less money but still manageable and you'll never have to worry about money because you always have that quantum computing skill to fall back into. Quantum computing is best because it will help you with your theoretical research in your PhD WORK, + LOTS of money if you go into research, and still good money if you're just a developer/engineer.

    2025-06-13 02:33

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    @mmmu9638 　오래 전

    No

    2025-06-13 02:15

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    @francissaffell… 　오래 전

    Almost all the physics majors, BS Degrees,  I was friends with  in college,  1976-1980,  could only find later work in weapons development.    This was depressing to them.  So most later got higher degrees, just so they could  work in other fields,  and nearly all of those friends,  gravitated to private sector, materials development.

    2025-06-13 01:51

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    @TonyVelazquez-… 　오래 전

    I've always wanted to hold a physicist tightly in my arms and kiss her deeply. Just thought I'd share that.

    2025-06-13 00:23

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    @NiktheGreek7 　오래 전

    some of the most famous and/or successful fianciers/traders in Wall Str. have come from physics background(s).

    2025-06-13 00:13

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    @adnanferdousle… 　오래 전

    Great video .

    2025-06-12 23:27

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    @adalbertred 　오래 전

    Quick question: are you in any financial arrangement with Peter Thiel? Because you sound like one of his employed podcasters.

    2025-06-12 22:09

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    @ihutson3031 　오래 전

    Whoa - plastic surgery alert

    2025-06-12 21:55

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    @aotk.mp4 　오래 전

    Study physics, it will teach you how to think. Do not do a PhD, you can publish papers without it.

    2025-06-14 14:02

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    @julesbashaur16… 　오래 전

    Another Physics PhD here (and yes, condensed matter).
    Took me 8 years to finish (diploma + phd), which is at the lower end of the window Sabine mentions. Studying Physics was one of the best decisions of my life. Yet, I highly recommend to take a slower pace and take a year longer, if your situation allows. Definitely collected scar tissue. Probably more than necessary.
    I decided to leave academia because I wanted to have both, a salary above poverty level and at least somewhat functioning mental health.
    It was surprisingly easy to find a job that supports both. As a physicist your regarded sort of the swiss army knife of the STEM disciplines.

    I quit academia, but I still love Physics.

    2025-06-14 06:58

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    @BoubsNdiaye-f3… 　오래 전

    I have solved the Riemann hypothesis, this mathematical problem that has resisted for more than 165 years. The verification of my article proposing a formula of complex variables on a third dimension related to the zeta function, which is on each side of the complex plane and allows to have the real part of the non-trivial zeros, can be done very clearly and precisely with zeta function graphing software. The article is on Google under the title ? PROOF OF THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS: AN ENIGMATICAL MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM OF MORE THAN A CENTURY AND A HALF by Daouda FALL.

    2025-06-14 06:28

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    @farissaerham83… 　오래 전

    Hey, I really love your videos! can you please make one on good and bad research topics?

    2025-06-14 04:42

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    @Arden__Spiro 　오래 전

    Just because your attitude is so,  doesn't mean reality is so.

    2025-06-14 03:50

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    @Amit1994-g9i 　오래 전

    I just want to learn, no credits

    2025-06-14 03:26

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    @Trishlikefish9… 　오래 전

    did she get a face lift?

    2025-06-14 00:05

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    @giocopiano 　오래 전

    Very well explained.

    2025-06-15 18:12

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    @NuclantPat 　오래 전

    Cordial Greetings Mam ??
    I'm a 17-running high-school girl from India determined to become a particle physicist, understanding the universe on quantum scale.
    ...Dear madam, as much as i have researched on the field, i found that P.Physics and CS majorly rule the work here, so i aim to first get a Masters degree in CS from a top IIT in India after clearing JEE Advanced, I'm pretty confident and then going with P.Physics or in parallel, am i on the right path acc. to u?

    2025-06-15 18:03

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    @AnabellaMonti-… 　오래 전

    Wer Physik studieren will, ist gut beraten zuvor oder parallel Mathematik zu studieren.
    Das hilft u.a. auch dabei den axiomatisch-dogmatischen Zirkus der gegenwärtigen Theoretischen Physik schneller und besser zu durchschauen.

    2025-06-15 17:45

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    @andreweppink44… 　오래 전

    WeIl, everybody knows -

    BS - everybody knows what that means


    MS - more of the same

    and

    PhD - pile it higher & deeper

    2025-06-15 15:24

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    @Wittywisdom184 　오래 전

    Now, I'm scared to do my higher studies on physics ?

    2025-06-15 14:56

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    @dinobot822 　오래 전

    im not sure sabine. I like quantum conciseness.  as always youre one of my best content mentors!

    2025-06-15 09:58

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    @alexanderhemmi… 　오래 전

    People still write by hand?

    2025-06-15 07:33

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    @handsomeman-pm… 　오래 전

    I am a sexual physicist.

    2025-06-15 07:32

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    @oriabe 　오래 전

    Je n'aurais pas voulu être physicien, j'aurais trop peur que mon travail serve à quelque chose.

    2025-06-15 06:01

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    @Honorius-i1t 　오래 전

    Physicists are among the dumbest and most brainwashed people on Earth. They are not taught how to question and are discouraged and penalised from questioning the ritualised dogma. The parts that correspond to reality stop with classical physics and mechanics. How do I know? I was one of the dumb ones until I learned to question everything.

    2025-06-15 03:59

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    @playapapapa23 　오래 전

    This is accurate. Pretty much described my life verbatim.

    2025-06-15 03:47

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    @billylee5624 　오래 전

    I sort of want to be a physicist, it was either that or become a mathematician which I excel at neither.  Now that I got a feel for mathematical proofs, I like trying proving things that don't even make sense in the real wurld.  But I do want to know physics at least at the rudimentary level so I can grasp the understandings of the real world from a physicists pov.

    2025-06-15 00:22

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    @davidecappelli… 　오래 전

    At a first glance, nobody would recommend it. Go for computer science, engineering, medicine…Those are fine but, if you really want to have a real perspective on everything, being the real jolly in the pocket for everyone, this is by far and large a physicist, the one and only! I would add that chemists, in second place, are highly underestimated professionals. Computer science and AI seem to replace everybody: still, I would buy a physicist and a chemist who use some AI, but still use their knowledge and problem solving.

    2025-06-16 18:08

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    @RetroHorror-v5… 　오래 전

    You’re destined for extraordinary things.

    2025-06-16 15:11

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    @spaceboy69420 　오래 전

    Please do make the video on good and bad topics for research in physics

    2025-06-16 05:05

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    @MrPunkbeto 　오래 전

    Patent jobs are very well paid.

    2025-06-16 03:28

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    @davidweather32… 　오래 전

    What an earth have you done to yourself, celeb beauty and serious science don't mix, any chemist knows that.

    2025-06-16 02:38

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    @tomislavpuklin… 　오래 전

    Physicists going into 'finance, banking and insurance' is a clear insight as you can get into the fact that we have truly and undoubtedly lost the plot as a society.

    2025-06-15 22:34

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    @ricardopimente… 　오래 전

    did you get a facelift?

    2025-06-15 22:17

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    @woodworkingtip… 　오래 전

    From what I saw so far, and a 2nd yr undergrad, it’s a very powerful degree (especially if you get a first class). I know I can go into stuff like finance, industry, etc… much more easily than people who got degrees specific to those can get into physics. It’s on another level of pain. We try so hard and get so far, but in the end, no pain no gain

    2025-06-17 08:52

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    @Keithyt3962 　오래 전

    Unfortunately, academia has very less transparency!( Enormously true for my home nation) !!Also, some people get motivated from reading biographies of scientists, which are actually written in hero worship  style and are very far away from every day reality! I humbly suggest everyone who wants to become a researcher to also have a full proof plan of alternate career if research career doesn't works due to some reason. Odds are astronomically high against people who are from poor nations and backgrounds and if you donot have a good mentor, odds are near 0 for you!!

    2025-06-17 01:07

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    @Yu-sj1we 　오래 전

    Is the 8-10 years for a PhD based in USA? In many european countries it is 3-4 years (eg: France, Spain)

    2025-06-18 08:48

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    @thenightking71… 　오래 전

    I am just here to say that I recently learned that in the U.S. between the late 1970s and 2012, only 66 African American women earned doctoral degrees in physics. This is one of the most striking statistics I’ve come across, and it prompts a deep question: why is this the case?

    2025-06-17 23:45

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    @no1oscarwildes… 　오래 전

    youtube couldn't have recommended this at a time more perfect! im just out of high school, and i am seriously considering taking a drop year to pursue physics, even though i have taken extra classes for engineering for the last two years. this is going to be a big decision, so thank you so much for making this video!

    2025-06-19 16:34

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    @italiascienza 　오래 전

    Can you do a video with data for other scientific PhDs as well? e.g. maths, chemistry, biology, natural sciences, geology etc.

    2025-06-19 16:24

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    @blackmamba779 　오래 전

    As an engineer, studyng physics with a lot of guys who apparently didnt took greek ethimology, was a trouble to see a 'ro' written as a 'p', a 'betha' as a 'B' and so on, using similar terms to completly different concepts. Seeing teachers struggling and confusing a hole room full of already befuddled pals.

    2025-06-19 14:59

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    @吳禹憲 　오래 전

    As a junior in Physics, after watch this video I can confirm at least my future is not that dim lmao

    2025-06-18 21:59

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    @fermansmith604… 　오래 전

    Years ago when I was in high school, our math teacher asked one of our top students ( 10th grade) what was his ultimate ambition. He answered become a Physicist. At time I had not yet heard of Albert Einstein. I later learned of Albert Einstein and E= MC2. l later took a course in Physics in my last year in high school. My high school Physics teacher was a bit of a weirdo. She would let us read a programmed text on Physics 50 percent  or more of the time while ( wherever she went in those times). Apparently she did not like me very much..One occasion she came to class with fresh "homemade" threads hanging out of her wrists. I asked her about what had happened in a way that apparently she did not like.... The conversation ensued : " Ferman you are a BOAR spelled "B-O-A-R". I looked at her and told her this : "Mrs. Graham ( not her real name) you are "NUT" spelled "n...u..t". This was a small  group of students-- three teen age boys and one teen-age girl. Mrs. Graham did not respond to my unexpected reply . She sat there , I slight tremor in her face that she tried  to hide.I will  give this Physicist credit-- I got a B in the class which was what I deserved.  A number of  years later I met  a university PHd Physicist. She was head of a summer program for advanced academic students of which my two  children attended. The university Phd  Physicist had  a personality diametrically opposedt to  the high school Physics  teacher. As for my thoughts personally on Physics? Well I suppose if you are Elon  Musk, all you need is an undergraduate degree  in  Physics, which is all I believe he earned while  in college. Of course, the rest is History with Elon Musk, Space X, Tesla etc etc.  As for me : I have contributed to Sabine's website in the past. I  believe I know some things Einstein or even present-day Physicists don't know.

    I know that telekinesis exists. How so?
    I was  sitting in an Accounting class wondering about the "mentalist" Uri Geller.Could he actually bend spoons with the power  of  his mind? I spotted a co-ed 30 feet away  with beautifu legs. Could I make her open her legs with the power of my mind?
    To make a long story short : I succeeded.
    The co-ed looked up at me in  the very instant her legs opened and closed in a fraction of a section  in  a quick jerk-like fashion.
    Most of you who read this will either laugh or smirk, wondering whether I am delusional etc.
    Yet I  believe had this occurred four hundred years ago and the co-ed had been a person of influence, I might very likely had been tried for witchcraft.
    Question in my mind : Would Einstein  have ever attempted this?
    Most likely  not--  the laws  of Physics says this is impossible.
    Many or most of you  who might read this probably know very little about Uri Geller. Probably even less about Nina Kulagina a Russian mentalist who the late magician James  Randi accused of trickery. His organization (skeptic-based) years ago offered a one million dollar prize to  anyone who could prove they had a paranormal  ability. I  had never heard about the prize. I would have applied had I known. Would I have succeeded?  Big question in my mind--no one ever did.

    But I  do know this : I succeeded in  Telekinesis-- something that totally defies or violated the laws of Physics. If I succeeded it is very possible, even likely Nina Kulagina was genuine. Kulagina would prepare for several hours before being tested by Russian scientists. If she was going to cheat, why would she put herself through such intensive preparation?

    Uri Geller is  another story. Geller may have also been authentic. Geller may not have fully understood the extent  or  the nature of telekinesis  (psychokinesis).. he may have succeeded at times but struggled at other times ( in which he gave conflicting stories )....my guess...

    Well way too much said  and probably will be un-appreciated or looked  on with disdain.
    But hey--- so be it!

    2025-06-20 20:12

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    @SSHS-u4k 　오래 전

    Hi
    I am preparing for med school but I also have passion for physics.
    I was thinking of doing research in medicine and incorporating  into it
    I think that physics is not only between engineering and maths but can be well connected with medicine. This interconnected research has so much scope for future medical advancement.
    Any advices that can guide me through would be very helpful.

    2025-06-20 11:25

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    @renesontay1383 　오래 전

    Hola, ¡buen video!
    Algo que necesitaba, ya que pause estudios por 2 años y toca iniciar de nuevo y a mi disponibilidad las carreras más cercanas a Física son Ing. Sistemas o Electrónica...
    Lo haré al revés, de Ing. A físico jaja.

    Por último, donde menciona la investigación con docencia, ¡estoy de acuerdo!
    De hecho, creo que en cualquier tema profesional o de la vida, en algún punto de nuestra existencia debemos enseñar a aprender y aprender a enseñar, a dejar nuestra huella, nuestro esfuerzo en alguien. Mi mamá fue maestra e inculcaba la educación, el aprendizaje primordialmente.

    ¡Llega hasta un pueblo de Guatemala!
    Y sí, fuera de la divulgación científica, la aplicación, el trabajo más como investigador es algo con lo que quiero acabar de anciano, como quiero terminar mi vida, pese al miedo a morir que aún me tengo jaja.

    2025-06-21 15:50