Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 13:37:23 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 15:54:03, Alastair Scott wrote: >On September 23, 2002 at 13:03:25, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>Thank god, I haven't confused everything (as usual). It's some time ago that I >>'d been involved in physics. However, I'm still dreaming of studying General >>Relativity "some day" (perhaps after throwing the towel regarding Comet). > >Now that is something _really_ challenging because, never mind the conceptual >difficulties, even the mathematics is hard. I know. But it's also of very high elegance. That had been awaking my interests already when I had been a student. Unfortunately, my spare time had been too short for General Relativity. In addition, courses about General relativity had been rare; it's a rather academical topic. >Tensor algebra is one of those areas >of mathematics you're not taught unless you have to know it, and Einstein was >largely developing it as he went along although some of the results were already >known. Mind you, Heisenberg was in a similar situation about 10 years later; he >formulated quantum mechanics in terms of 'things' and, when he asked a >mathematician to look over what he had done, it turned out that those 'things' >were matrices :) > >>Interesting. >>Are you working as a physicist or is it just a spare time interest of yours ? > >No - I completed my theoretical physics degree 13 years ago and now work, rather >prosaically, in the IT industry - but this sort of thing sticks. (And I keep up >with what's going on). Same with me. Except, that I have been working "prosaically" now for even a few years more than you. Uli > >Alastair
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