“When passion meets work, work becomes hobby”
-Aniekee
Everybody has that one thing in their life which they are overwhelmed with. It is a modern outlet of a profound activity. An era of answering mouth-watering debates and arriving to a profound conclusion is dissipated in research. It can be of any type and can be pursued by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
But the type of research that I am about to mention is not bound by any boundaries of this material universe. When research is mentioned it’s difficult to be stuffed as a hobby cause of its immense variety and is often an object of ridicule.
Hutson once described it as formalised curiosity! Once man started talking this stupid brain asked WHY? HOW? and WHEN? And that’s how research was born. An untimely birth by an unknown person where the idea lead to the imagination. Talking about research a lot of proposition and imagination pops out but the theme is strictly limited to scientific research with livid career options. Research is that job which is actually a hobby and that hobby which is actually a job. Scientific research is not all about asking WHY? Which indeed is a big question itself.
Sitting in one corner of a room and thinking WHY must not appear to be a hobby to one but there’s a lot of activity going on in the brain. Research is not one hobby but a collaboration of different streams. There’s writing, reading, exploring, challenging and failing. It’s about thinking in an arbitrary manner.
A lot of companies and organisations have open arms for researchers who have in a way defined their immortal thoughts. Scientist’s top the list of career pathways providing symmetrical variety. But asking WHY will not always lead you to a lab. Even history has unanswered inquiries which demand answers. Wherein archaeologists satisfy the thirst by digging up the ground.
Prattling on about scientific research, not the one in which a which lab mice is injected with a new serum or a new species is cut open but the one which holds the authority to challenge the universe and it’s very existence. It’s theoretical physics. Must sound monotonous but the questions that it asks and the answers which come up are rather incandescent. It has the jurisdiction to complain on the rather existence of the boundless universe. From Newton to Einstein physics hasn’t stopped it has gradually made its way into the flat world wherein it proved that its actually round. It has created havoc among the catholic and mesmerized great thinkers about real life phenomenon. Why all life started? Who created us? Was it god? Was it physics? Or aliens? The questions are hypothetic, must be laughable but no one has an answer to it. But why is it so that we don’t have an answer to something that we find ludicrous?
Going into the great depths of the universe and digging up the forbidden facts is the job of a theoretical physicist.
To explain the existence of life in a single equation is what he longs for, which indeed is a lot of paperwork and sometimes maddening. It’s like an obsessed passion where reading and writing are two voluntary directions. When reading is framed a lot of admirable books come up but the breath-taking ones are: A brief History of Time, Brief answers to big questions, The theory of everything, all by the great Hawking. Relativity by Einstein is another phenomenal specimen. Reading it feels like learning from Einstein himself because of the unpredictable norms. The Theoretical Physics series by W. Nolting is a series of undergraduate course but it teaches to look beyond books and develops a clear understanding of the concept. Eight lectures in theoretical physics by Max Plank, former nobel prize holder, which he originally delivered at Columbia University is unique and knowledgeable in every sense. “Time limitations forbid the extensive consideration of the details of this great field of learning” is an extensive extract form this book’s which depicts this fields richness.
A little falling star which rose morbid curiosity in a child and compelled him to think beyond books and take up theoretical research as his hobby is long since gone but has left the child to deal with the aftermath. Expressing mortality in a single variable is an everlasting process but a small initiative can cause a big change. Relativity and Quantum are two major ingredients in physics. Where the existence of one prevails the other yet not together. Space-time-singularity is a point wherein time is expected to come to a stop. How wonderful! But dangerous and laughable at the same time. But there’s always a crazy fashion to know WHY this happens and a quest to find which math can enumerate it. Overtime we grow, expand our knowledge question our understanding and gather evidence to prove our findings. A very crucial stage is when one completes school and requires a mentor to figure-out their future. Theoretical physics is not physics entirely it requires mastering calculus, real analysis, differential geometry.
Majoring in Physics is the base of establishment of one’s theoretical career with advance knowledge in mathematics which is followed by extensive research in ones chosen prospective then comes preparing the thesis and getting approved by a pomposity of professors. Passing the physics GRE is an essential requirement and then one is good to go. A professor with a lot of money in general. Research is not something that you have to do it’s something that you want to do, something which you adore even when you fail.
Theoretical physics is very unique as a subject and only some gifted brains take the initiative to engulf its requirements. Sustaining the very foundation of theoretical physics is MIT, Massachusetts institute of technology in Boston, US and its benevolent partner Harvard University. Together they have nurtured prodigies to where they stand today. Establishments like Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, UC Berkeley and Princeton are the talk of the town when it comes to ground-breaking research and job opportunities.
Taking up research as a career and hobby is like never getting out of school. New concepts are learnt every day, new ideas are imposed, new debates arise, and inconsiderable prayers are answered. In research the main aim is not only gaining but dissipating what is gained, voicing out one’s opinions and looking forward to their wide acceptance.
