NEED HELP! Any physicists out there?

[bowerbird]

I think the right term is actually "cosmologist"

Although Wiki gives a somewhat different interpretation of the word if you read New Scientist it seems these are the Boffins who seem to produce all the space time theories

 

[Frontierzone]

You should know what you need already!


When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?
Are you tense when you sense there's a storm in the air?
Can you find your way blind when you're lost in the street?
Do you know how to go to the Heaviside Layer?

T.S. Eliot

Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant?
Familiar with candle, with book, and with bell?
Were you Whittington's friend? The Pied Piper's assistant?
Have you been an alumnus of Heaven and Hell?.

T.S. Eliot

You forget, I'm a Jellicle cat at another site.

 

[Greencoat]

Um, how about Cosmologist? Someone who theorises universal structure from the Planck epoch forward? Martin Rees is one, and he's got a real job. Also try Brian Green's elegant universe for another one - but watch out for chapter eleven; he sort of minces around with general relativity and all the fluffy stuff up to chapter ten to lull you into a false sense of security, then creeps up behind you and whacks you around the back of the head with a baseball bat with 'Calabi-Yau manifolds' written all over it.
Here endeth the health warning.

 

[bullferret]

cosmological theoritician - he'd be too clever by half!

 

[HardScienceFan]

Cosmology 201

Ay 21 Webpage

 

[Nik]

F T L ?

Um, you could follow my Convention's route and call them Field Theorists and Field Engineers.

The latters' gleeful toast still being 'Beyond Theory'...

"Space is BIG. One leisurely light-minute to the Moon. Five, ten, twenty light-minutes to Mars. Then the numbers run wild. About eight light-hours out, you reach 'Flat Space'. Beyond the deep bell of a star's g-well, cheeky math can side-step the c-limit. Wrinkle, Wrap, Warp, Fold or Enfold space, the effect's the same: ships cross light-years fast.

"A snag: Anomalous Phase Velocity in 'Over Space' does not carry to or from 'Real Space'. In-system, Mr Newton yet rules with quill and cursive hand. Momentum is conserved. Action equals Reaction. Force is Mass times Acceleration. That makes star-travel easy, but space-travel HARD."