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8Splendiferous8 t1_isfdacu wrote

Reply to comment by Sumsar01 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat

This is very informative. Thank you for taking the time to explain it.

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Sumsar01 t1_isfgcz8 wrote

There is probably plenty of more details but i would have to provide real data and lecture notes. But what I can say is that all my nuclear physics professors where huge proponents for nuclear power and talked a lot about it in both the nuclear physics courses l took.

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8Splendiferous8 t1_isfivgk wrote

Same with mine. Just it was uncomfortable to ask certain genuine questions I didn't know the answer to, lest I be treated like I have a tinfoil hat. Nuclear was one of my least favorite subjects, so there were other more pressing questions to focus on for the exam.

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Sumsar01 t1_isfj3ji wrote

Well nuclear physics is kind of a everything goes meeting put because we cant efficiently compute QCD, so it is pretty wild.

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8Splendiferous8 t1_isfjmoo wrote

Yeah. It was a lot of, "Okay, we don't have any first principles for you, but here's the function that seems to be describing what's going on. Just memorize it." And there were so many patterns, and patterns of patterns to memorize. And it just wasn't fun or interesting to me at all, haha.

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Sumsar01 t1_isfotxx wrote

I read the russian lecture book for the exams of the seconds course. I like my books with a bit more math and a bit less hand wavy, but it helped a lot.

The first course was a mess.

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8Splendiferous8 t1_isfvez6 wrote

Yeah, I only took a single survey course and still hated it. I'll stick to E+M and quantum...those are more straightforward.

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