A great motivator for anyone getting a whiff of what MMM is cooking and thinking they might want to dive in.
http://fledglingphysicist.com/2013/1...cs-so-can-you/
Basically a girl goes from 0 to physicist in a couple of years.
"If I can sit here and calculate the Debye temperature, you can too. If I can sit here and find Green’s functions, by god, you can too. If I can bang my head against my desk in frustration because I can’t figure out how to solve some crazy stat mech problem, you can too. If I can stay awake at night freaking out about the EPR paradox and the foundations of quantum mechanics, you damn well can too. Seriously. Instead of watching an extra hour of TV, go pick up a calculus textbook, or a book about the standard model – anything!"
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