gEDA-user: physicists (Re: new footprint guidelines)

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

I think a lot of people confuse the difference between a theoretical physicist and an experimental physicist.

A theoretical uses a whiteboard and marker.  He/She writes a paper.

An experimental physicist reads the paper and goes -- "Oh, really?".  He/She constructs experimental apparatus using scrap metal, some custom glassware from the chemistry department glass blowing shop, an expensive sensor robbed off of last year's project, a chunk of stainless steel turned on a lathe by his/her own hands, some computer software, a little liquid nitrogen, and of course duct tape. He/She writes another paper.

The theoretical reads the second paper and has one of two reactions:
a) "I told you so."
b) "Well, that sucks."

-dave (an EE with physicist friends....)

On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:22 AM, John Doty wrote:

> 
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Rick Collins wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I almost forgot, NEVER ask a PhD "anything" to design PCBs.  What the heck are you thinking???
> 
> Speaking as a physicist, let me comment.
> 
> 1. Learning to do a variety of engineering tasks is an important part of an experimental physicist's education. A good experimental physicist must be a more versatile engineer than most engineering specialists. This is exactly the kind of job a  Ph.D. student *should* be doing.
> 
> 2. The specific problem mentioned was a "super noiseless detector circuit". Few EE's understand detector physics or noise physics well enough to tackle this.
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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