Friendly Feuds: Experimental Physicists vs. Theoretical Physicists
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Physicists have historically been divided into one of two camps: theoretical physicists who create mathematical models to explain how energy and matter interact; and experimental physicists who conduct tests on specific physical phenomena using tools like particle accelerators and lasers. Whose approach is best? Liam Fitzpatrick, a Boston University theoretical physicist, and Alex Sushkov, a Boston University experimental physicist, talk about the good-natured rivalry that exists between their respective fields.
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"When a theorist comes into the lab everything stops working"! Hahaha
"I don't know why there are no famous experimentalists"
Micheal Faraday: "Am I a joke to you?"
Maxwell's equation is more of a theory. He used to be a physicist before the great divide came. It is post-Einstein that the divide became severe.
Edison too
Who is Tesla?
@@anoushk Edison was more of an engineer imo.
Nikola Tesla laughs in Spain without the S
Theorists give hypotheses and gives a possible explanations for the unvierse.
Experimentalists test those hypotheses and determine if they are actually correct or possible.
Engineers apply and implement the ideas.
Engineers suck
Physicists and mathematicians are driven by curiosity and pure thought. Engineers are driven by money and other stupid ideologies.
@@maxwellsequation4887 but not all engineers are driven by money, some just really wanna build stuff, make stuff and solve real world problems. Meanwhile physicists are just curious people but they don't do alot tbh
@@Sasukej2004 Just like what I want to do. I'm planning to study computer engineering and theoretical physics.
@@guymakingvideos4565 So, how's it going?
I would like to add that describing experimentalists just as those who go out there and see which theory is right (if any) isn't the complete story. The reason beyond developing a new theory in physics is often found in unexplicable experimental results that have contradicted the theories previously established. They not only check theories, but they do discoveries. It's a cirle, not a segment.
Yea you're totally right ! ..that makes so much sense
Humans suffer from too much fragmentation than there actually is.
yeah, then the theorists take a look at the experimentalists’s results and form theories off those
Yeah, and that's how quantum mechanics came about. Physicists realize there's a discrepency between the Rayleigh-Jeans law and the experimental data on blackbody radiation at short wavelengths.
"I don't know why there are no famous experimentalists"
The vast majority of Nobel laureates are experimentalists...
"Maybe we're more modest" is the honest answer lol
I will be a physics major in the fall and I think I might want to become an experimental physicist. I remember learning about the cavendish experiment and the gold foil experiment and realizing that the true knowledge exists in the idea becoming the reality. Theory alone is just belief, and knowledge comes from experiencing the belief. Some of the projects I have had the most fun making have been projects that take a concept and turn it into a physical model. An example is a marx generator where all the parts where homemade out of water. It's an idea I saw on the internet so I don't claim it to be my own, but seeing the idea, and then actually going out to buy the parts and seeing it made was really cool. It was basically breaking down what resistors and capacitors are, and taking that concept, making it more abstract, and using water to create them. Helped me understand how electricity works within those components, and not just trust that they are what they are.
Theory isn’t belief
i think there’s more famous theorists because they’re the ones that come up with the ideas that are proven by the experimentalists, and lets be honest, coming up with the theories and showing it to be mathematically consistent is where the credit rightfully lies for being responsible for the technology and such that it can lead to. the experimentalists are extremely important but i think it makes sense why theorists get more credit, and it may even be true that the theorist wouldn’t get famous for their theory without the experimentalist since the theorist’s theory wouldn’t be proven without the experimentalist
everyone is a theorist including engineerist, however not everyone is a engineerist. every time a engineer do some experimentation they observe and use mental thought to calculate and understand the concept at hand, it may not be as rigorous as theorist who just specializes in that, however its a point of acknowledging that everyone is a theorist when going into this, however not everyone is an engineerist, you can sit around your asses all day not doing a lick of experimentation.
We need to go back to r² and the three-dimensional physics of the Inverse Square Law. The spherical 4πr² geometry is key to this concept, based on Huygens' Principle from 1670, which states: "Every point on a wave front of light has the potential to create a new spherical light wave." Each point on the curvature of the wave front can be considered a potential photon ∆E=hf electron interaction exchanging potential energy into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter in the form of electrons.
This can be based on E=MC² with the squaring of the speed of light representing a geometrical process forming a square of probability Ψ²
We experienced this as a continuously emerging probabilistic future 'time' with the spherical 4πr² surface acting as a boundary condition or manifold for the uncertainty ∆x∆pᵪ≥h/4π encountered in daily life.
And that Middle Earth reference...😀😀
computational physicist: Am i a joke to you?
What do they do?
@@rahuladhikari6990 Computational physicist work mostly with simulations, complex systems and numerical analysis that require a computer to do part of the hard work
@@rahuladhikari6990 i am not a specialist but that's kind of what i know as a physics undergrad
@@jorgemalosti9308 wouldn’t that be more of an experimentalist?
@@jorgemalosti9308 They would be considered theorist. Most university's computational research groups would be categorized under "theoretical & computational physics", at least based on what I observe.
As we discover more and more about space, the need for experimentalist will increase exponentially.
My dream is to become a experimental physicist
Me too. The people think that the physics is only theory and for that reason the people hate the physics, when with the physics you can do experiments very funny and to learn How work the things (circuits, photons, etc)
@@al_player2731 trivial
So, how's it going?
Great experimental physicist
Micheal Faraday
Still.....
Theoritical Physics besst
I laughed and laughed. Thx.for the insight into that world. I lived the dig the experimentalist carry around. Always nice to learn something new.
Thank you so much for making this video
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Enrico Fermi is the legendary experimental physicist!
He has one of the best contributions to theoretical Physics as well.
Enrico Fermi was a god amongst men.
Fermi gave BETA decay theory theoreist can be experimentist Noble prize onle gave to EXPERIMENTS NOT theories
because for exp to be success it needs many exp theorist and credit goes to all but for theoretical only for one or 2
Are you serious? No mention of Faraday? Not a single mathematical equation in his notebooks and yet he came up Faraday’s Law!
What is the percentage theorist to experimentalist in the world? In the US? In Europe? In Russia? In China/Asia?
What about Nikola Tesla. technicly he was both but he ran his own expiraments.
What about Nichola tesla
he is not exactly a physicist. he is an inventor
“There are no famous experimental physicists”
Thomas young proving light’s wavelike nature: 👁💧👄💧👁
Very nice!
Can you do it with mathematicians to ? :)) pure math vs applied math ?
the thing is most physicist starts being theoretical until they realize most of it is garbage and is not going anywhere until someone conducts experiments on it. at least properly.
how about applied physicist
you mean engineer? lol
Engineers are not physicists
Beatiful
Not like anyone asked, but my opinion: Theorists make the rules, have more ideas, and have the ability to invent the laws that experimentalists follow.
I wonder why experimentalists aren't that famous when compared to theorists ????
@@pi_rand4266 maybe because the theorists are more than experimentalists ...or maybe because there are more interesting theories (I'm talking about quantity) than the things discovered experimentally
Okay Sheldon Cooper
Its not rules but more like an idea of a rule.
they can come up with 99 theories and be proven none of them being real by experiments.
Thanks to theoretical physics for sci-fi movies like mcu 😂😁😁😂
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Being a theoretical physicist seems to be a better choice since you still keep the chance to be something.
Great
This is too neutral. The uploader portrays them both as real sciences when theoretical physics is a pseudo science
theoretical physicists can be experimentalists but experimentalists cannot be theorists
SIR ISAAC NEWTON reference
@@maxwellsequation4887 Yeah why not start talking about Aristotle's time when nothing was known.
I think it's more or so the other way around...
It's the other way around.
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These guys are have so little knowledge when they say there are no famous experimentalist 1:16 I mean just take Niels Bohr, Galileo galilie miachel Faraday were they not famous and crucial to science and all of them were experimentalist
bohr is a theorist