Welcome to Gaia! ::

Hey. I stumbled upon this guild and thought it would be fun to actually discuss and interesting subject with others. I am not actually taking Physics yet but I am currently self-taught. I want to obtain a Ph.D in Astrophysics a Doctorate/Masters(either is fine) in Theoretical Physics.

gonk How have you been here for so long without an introduction?

I'm Shade and I'm a high school physics student. Though the career I'm pursuing has nothing to do with physics, I'm very interested in it.

Hello my name is ben and im into the physics of sound, hopefully will be going to school either at Full Saill of the art institute of california. Audio Engineering has fascinated me from the first amp that broke on me and i opened it up to(try) to fix it....anyways feel free to pm me if you want.

Well, I s'pose I can introduce myself now. Woohoo!

I'm nearing the end of my third year at UVa. I'm a physics and math double major, but I must admit my interests lie more in physics. I've done all the undergrad physics requirements, so I'm cramming the grad physics as best I can.

I've done general relativity (first using Shutz initially and then Carrol's book. Now I just look stuff up in Wheel when something catches my interests), dabbled significantly in Jackson's E&M, have been studying string theory for the past year, have classical mechanics up through Hamilton-Jacobi theory and action angle variables, just finished up the grad quantum series and will be delving into an official course in QFT using Peskin next semester (already had to learn all the basics for string theory and, interestingly enough, the latter fourth of my coursework in the graduate quantum series). I know enough solid state to get by, although I'll admit I lost interest and stopped paying as much attention as I probably should have.

Heretofore, my research has all involved continuum mechanics and everything involving atomic force microscopy, in particular the recently pioneered nanoscale subsurface imaging methodology called resonant difference frequency atomic force ultrasonic microscopy. I grow pretty tired of it though - it takes about a keg of beer to tolerate some of the experiments one can supposedly do with this irritating apparatus. My interests lie in theory and I've recently been contemplating the possibility of unifying the parameters that characterize particles (charge, mass, charm, spin, etc.) as emergent or geometric phenomena - a notion that has led to my recent attempts to understand the nature of mass and spin from a purely geometric perspective.

I'll probably spend most of my time discussing quantum (ranging from applications to interpretations) and general relativity.

At any rate, that's me. I look forward to hanging around! ^_^

Edit: Feel free to call me Sean.

I'm balt11t! I'm only in the eighth grade but I've been studying physics since the fifth. My goal is to become an astrophysics professor.

Why are you getting both a major and a minor in the same thing? Isn't the point of a minor to show that you can diversify?