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 Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:11 pm
Hey I'm Nalanchiba, and have just finished grade 9. I'm not that old and not that smart but i have read this book on cosmology and philosophy and I was intrigued, and since then i have wated to know more. I may not be all that smart in most of these topics but thats because right now i want to learn more.
I'm not all that good in science but i have a passion for math, i am quite smart at it for my age. I am hoping to persue a career in mathematics or Cosmology. Other than that i just want to read what other people write and voice what i think.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:57 pm
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I'm a senior in high school up in the northmost state on the east coast. I've got an unspecial aptitude for math and understanding complicated ideas, but once things are inside my head I can prod existing theories and make new ones up reeeeeeal good.
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:41 am
Hi! I'm just going to assume that everyone can read my name, and note that ya'll can call me Z or Zote for short if you like.
I'm a undergraduate physics major at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who's waffling between plasma physics, solid state physics, and theoretical astrophysics. Oh, and I'm also only about to start year 2, so the background isn't the strongest yet, but's gettin' there.
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:49 am
Hey I'm Ender. I have an extreame interest in Astrophysics and Cosmology. I love making rockets as well and sending them flying throughout the house/neiborhood. I'm also only a sophmore in HS soo if i sound like an idiot then just say so and I'll shutup.
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:57 pm
How to put this...
I have the physics devil for a teacher.
No seriously, You all can call my Syn. I am a Highschool Student who has taken and passed AP Physics (With the Physics Devil). I am extremely picky about word choice. (EX... Gavitational Force instead of Gravity. Unless you can define the word gravity in itself. I will not accept it.) I have been trained that way... No hot, no cold. But a force on something by something. Force on rock by the sun. = Thermal Energy = hot ? .
This is all part of my evil plan (and my teachers) to rewrite the way people use physics.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:02 pm
MINA IS A NEWCOMER
SHE DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE IN PHYSICS
(IF SHE DOES SHE DIDN'T KNOW)
AND THAT IS WHY SHE IS HERE
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:46 pm
Ninja_Mina MINA IS A NEWCOMER
SHE DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE IN PHYSICS
(IF SHE DOES SHE DIDN'T KNOW)
AND THAT IS WHY SHE IS HERE so where does your interest stem from?
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:47 am
Im TTMSHU, i was invited by vorpal neko because we've had fun in the sci-tech form battling it out with the hoardes of clueless present within gaia.
I enjoy using science to quantify science fiction debates, but i wont mind helping you out with whatever else.
Im a warhammer40k enthusiast, as well as being a general sci-fi fan.
I enjoy rifle-shooting and have competed for Australia in a national team.
Currently, im in the last few months of high school and hopefully will begin a course in aeronautical engineering at uni.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:35 pm
Hi, I'm CatonaHotSnRoof and I came back to Gaia a few days ago and found this guild while searching around! Of course I had to join!
I just graduated from high school and am going to attend Columbia University next year. In high school, I took a year of physics (we didn't have AP Physics or anything more difficult than the basics due to money problems) but unfortunately it was the type of class that you could sleep through and still get an A. (I didn't, but only because I'm a nerd.)
The class bored me for a good long time because all we did was simple mechanics. Then you'd introduce anything to do with a triangle and you have to teach the concept of sin, cosine, and tangent. And that totally confused my class. And wasted my time. Arg.
But anyhow. That was junior year. I took physics at the same time that I took AP Calculus. Calculus, I loved. My physics class had minimal math involved, but with calculus (which most of the other kids hadn't taken.) I really got into the class.
At the end of the year, we watched a video on Einstein that really fascinated me. I did a lot of research and read many books and realized that there was more to physics than the F=ma that my class needed weeks to figure out. And these theories really intrigued me.
And so!
Next year I'm headed to Columbia University to study Chinese and Physics. I can't wait. My initial plan was to study Astrophysics because it, specifically, interests me a lot, but, the major for astrophysics involved more astronomy and less physics than I wanted to do. So I'm planning on doing the physics major and taking astrophysics as electives.
I'm excited to be here!
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:40 pm
CatonaHotSnRoof Hi, I'm CatonaHotSnRoof and I came back to Gaia a few days ago and found this guild while searching around! Of course I had to join! I just graduated from high school and am going to attend Columbia University next year. In high school, I took a year of physics (we didn't have AP Physics or anything more difficult than the basics due to money problems) but unfortunately it was the type of class that you could sleep through and still get an A. (I didn't, but only because I'm a nerd.) The class bored me for a good long time because all we did was simple mechanics. Then you'd introduce anything to do with a triangle and you have to teach the concept of sin, cosine, and tangent. And that totally confused my class. And wasted my time. Arg. But anyhow. That was junior year. I took physics at the same time that I took AP Calculus. Calculus, I loved. My physics class had minimal math involved, but with calculus (which most of the other kids hadn't taken.) I really got into the class. At the end of the year, we watched a video on Einstein that really fascinated me. I did a lot of research and read many books and realized that there was more to physics than the F=ma that my class needed weeks to figure out. And these theories really intrigued me. And so! Next year I'm headed to Columbia University to study Chinese and Physics. I can't wait. My initial plan was to study Astrophysics because it, specifically, interests me a lot, but, the major for astrophysics involved more astronomy and less physics than I wanted to do. So I'm planning on doing the physics major and taking astrophysics as electives. I'm excited to be here! wow, what a story. It's great that you weren't turned off by bad class presentation, you most certainly are welcome.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:14 am
I won't say that I have always been fascinated by physics because I can remember a time when that classification of my interests as "physics" would have seemed entirely too narrow. I accept it now only because I realize that "physics" is actually a relatively good descriptor of the kind of thing that I study the most intensely. As far as qualifications go I am half way through a double major in physics and mathematics at the university of utah. If fortune smiles on me I will also pick up minors in computer sci and psychology. I don't think that is really an accurate measure of what I know though because the vast majority of the physics I know was learned outside of class. In any case nice to meet you all...
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:25 am
Hello all. Name's John, but call me Balcerzak (or some clever nickname you derive from that). I graduated with a BA in physics from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2005, and am currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with the goal of attaining my Ph.D. I've finished my first year of graduate classes (which included Electrodynamics by J.D. Jackson), passed my qualifying exams, and am currently trying to figure out who exactly I want as my advisor. I've been spending the summer in Geneva, working at CERN on the ATLAS detector, doing assembly and commisioning of the Muon Drift Tube chambers into sectors, for their eventual mounting on the end-cap wheel. It's been fun and interesting, and I'll probably end up joining the project.
My main areas of physics interest have always been Astrophysics/Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics/Particle Physics. The very large and the very small have this amazing appeal to me; it probably has to do with their frontier-like nature. My interest in the Astrophysics aspect stems way back to my childhood enthusiasm for Astronomy; I don't recall exactly when I became fascinated by quarks, gluons, leptons, and neutrinos, but I expect it was around junior high/high school. I enjoy both facets of physics, the theoretical probably slightly more than the experimental, although I honest expect that I would not be quite as good at it, due to insufficient math background in modern algebra, groups, symmetries, and the like. My ultimate goal is to become a physics professor teaching at a small-ish, liberal arts institution.
I was introduced to the guild by following a link in someone's (VorpalNeko?) signature, and decided I may as well sign up. I haven't really done that much related to physics on Gaia yet, as I've tended away from the ST subforum in favor of the MR and P subforums, but perhaps I can use this as a chance/excuse to get involved.
As far as my nonphysics interests and talents go, I may get around to adding them here eventually, but don't quite feel like it at the present.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:22 am
wow, american high schools really dont go into depth about mathematics and physics.......
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:41 pm
Well I am Kelly Ann Pawlak.
I have no experience with actual physics equations yet
but will this year after I take my physics class in highschool. 3nodding
So right now my only education in physics is the many documentaries I have watched and slaved over.
I am 13, and a very deep thinker. My IQ is 167.
I often have to explain scientific stuff to adults.
My science teacher once had me teach for a day so I could enlighten the class on String Theory.
My intrest and incredible math skills came from my upbringing.
My dad thought it would be cool to teach his 4-year-old child algebra.
I had Einstien hair when I was four too.
I used to do simple equations like ' 3x+4=y' on the school chalkboard.
I scared my teacher.
I could explain the pathagorean theorum by the age of 5 =]
I was a weird kiddie.
I lost intrest in math and science in 6th grade.
I gained it again in 7th after the most wonderful math teacher brought in the tape he bought about string theory.
Ever since, I've been shooting for Harvard.
I want to be a physicist.
I'm taking a physics class 2 years before everyone else.
My math kills all.
Did you know that last year I read my dad's college math book.
It was kinda easy =/
He didn't go to a smart college.
I have always been facinated by atoms and space.
My favorite space things are black holes, hypernovas, and quasars.
Quasars scare the s**t out of me.
I like trying to figure out what exsistance is.
But recently I have had a huge turn in my interests.
My dominant interest at this time is time.
Time itself facinates and angers me.
ok, the end.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:10 pm
Okalee dokalee, well, here's what we all love to do, talk about ourselves, eh? ok, um, yeah, I'm Copper Forrest, (CF, Cop, and Copper all work too).
I finished my bachelor degree in sociology last year and took basic physics for one of the science requirements - and there was light. It was practically a religious experience for me. I love to soak up whatever I can get, books (currently reading the Tao of Physics), tv (pbs has had several great series that were helpful for me), and chatting w my husband, who is majoring in physics right now.
After reading around this guild, i gotta say I have a whole lotta respect for the knowledgeable conversations goin on here. Extremely unusual (but welcome) for Gaia! I am a little intimidated to post, given my lack of knowledge (I consider myself a newb to physics and i have always had a hard time w math) but be pls patient with me lurking for now, cuz I really wanna be here. I promise to post more later.
ok, whew, a little painful but i think i spit it all out.
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