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

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 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.

You forgot the WD-40, the other essential item for any project (duct tape is the first).


> 
> 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.
> > http://www.noqsi.com/
> > jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
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