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2013-02-28 04:30 5571316 Anonymous (345353.jpg 724x341 85kB)
By the time you are 20, would you rather have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge or be a starter on the best team in the world?

0 min later 5571318 but sage goes in all fields i'm not saying sage goes in all fields
/sp/ pls go

2 min later 5571321 Anonymous
Neither.

2 min later 5571322 Anonymous
Einstein or Tesla.

4 min later 5571329 Anonymous
I'd rather have a Ph.D. pretty huge dick

5 min later 5571331 Anonymous
>>5571316 Professional sportsmen are complete idiots useless for the world, good only as plebs for intertaining people. >/sp/ pls go

9 min later 5571337 Anonymous
Play Football for a few years and make millions then if I wanted I would have the funds to study

10 min later 5571341 Anonymous
>>5571331 >Complete idiots >Intertaining

11 min later 5571343 Jaguar (catthought.jpg 600x600 113kB)
I've been wondering about this. It's generally said that the smarter you are the more emotional and stability issues you have therefore the ignorant sportsman would be the happier life. But is the development of insecurities and difficulty to place yourself in life not considered poor intelligence in terms of life skills so the ignorant, happy go lucky go is actually the smarter since he's successfully applying a mental framework that succeeds in life? Is the ability to question things about yourself and the world that doesn't provide a satisfactory response not a product of stupidity?

11 min later 5571345 Anonymous
I am 21 and haven't even started college ;_;

12 min later 5571350 Anonymous
>>5571331 >intertaining

17 min later 5571362 Anonymous
>>5571331 >intertaining

20 min later 5571368 Anonymous
>>5571341 >>5571350 aww yiss, can't get a proper counter argument, mock orthography instead english isn't my native language, m8s

22 min later 5571373 Anonymous
>the best team in the world >implying

22 min later 5571374 Anonymous
>>5571368 So entertaining millions of people is useless?

24 min later 5571378 Anonymous
>>5571374 No, it's anti-intellectual.

32 min later 5571393 Anonymous
>>5571374 This is stupidity with no cultural value unlike theatre, music, movies not to mention science or at least popular science things. Face it, they are stupid. But it's not the stupidity that gets me, no. But no motivation in learning stuff. "Why, I'm a professional sportsman, I make a lot of money to entertain people with my physical abilities, I don't want to know sciency stuff". Please name sportsmen of modern world that are in any way good at science. >inb4 not injoying watching sports on TV, thinks no one injoys it

36 min later 5571404 Anonymous
>>5571393 >injoying Gotta learn to use them e's man.

37 min later 5571411 Anonymous (mad twatter.jpg 500x376 27kB)
>>5571329

39 min later 5571415 Anonymous
>>5571331 Ryan Fitzpatrick's smarter than you, bud

40 min later 5571419 Anonymous
>Engage yourself to a boring, childish repetitive sport on a field everyday for 20 years till you get pooped and retire for the rest of your life trying to figure our whats left to do on earth before you decay on the soil eaten by worms Or >Be a fucking genius, having knowledge that will last throughout your lifetime, discovering shit that regular plebs can only imagine, being intellectually superior to sportsfag who can't even do basic math, having your name on textbooks and in spaceships, being a god amongst the unevolved apes. hmm

42 min later 5571427 Anonymous
>>5571419 Do you think having a Ph.D automatically grants you all those things?

47 min later 5571438 Anonymous
I'd rather be a starter. I know its anti-intellectual yada-yada but I rather do something I like and that feeling of winning will never gets old. Not much of a physics fag anyway.

47 min later 5571443 Anonymous
>>5571419 Settle down, Matthew.

48 min later 5571445 Anonymous (sad_cat.jpg 600x942 171kB)
>>5571404 You're right.

48 min later 5571447 Anonymous
PhD of course

53 min later 5571460 Anonymous
>>5571419 >stop liking what I don't like >thinking intelligence only comes from academia and studying >thinking hes superior to others because of the field he chose If you're at the top of your game in any field its respectable, any elitist retard can grind away and become a decently qualified scientist; doesn't make them better than those who used their efforts and skills in another way.. Did you get bullied by all the 'dumb jocks' nerdlinger?

59 min later 5571470 Anonymous
i'm already 21 and got nothing xD

1 hours later 5571476 Anonymous (1325342807548.jpg 789x680 127kB)
>>5571470

1 hours later 5571479 Anonymous
PhD from Cambridge, assuming I didn't become paralysed for the rest of my life like steven hawking. >Ph.D in theoretical physics from Cambridge >any job I want >300k starting And I get the pride and self-respect of knowing that I'm in the top 0.1% of the world's intelligence and I'm not just a dumb beast who plays a sport for a living

1 hours later 5571482 Anonymous
>>5571393 There was this one NHL hockey player who built his own plane and got a pilots license, I can't remember his name. Also, having played competitive sports growing up, I can say that a lot of the people I played with were incredibly intelligent (played hockey with people at AAA level who are now taking nuclear physics, aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering, biochemistry, etc). Although only a couple people I played with ended up making money playing, they weren't idiots either. I think this whole thread is dumb.

1 hours later 5571486 Anonymous
>>5571427 a Ph.D in physics at age 20 from one of the best universities in the world means that you are very likely to become a prominent scientist if you decide to continue an academic career. I personally would want to work for Jane Street or something and solve problems and develop strategies but make fat stacks in the process.

1 hours later 5571488 Anonymous
Lel. /popsci/ really is autism central. It's not like being a sportsperson is easy. You people are just reacting badly because they earn something which no scientist can dream of earning.

1 hours later 5571493 Anonymous
>>5571488 The mean IQ of professional football players is going to be pretty much 100. the mean IQ of Doctorate-holders in physics from cambridge, let alone those who are 20 years old at the time, is going to be well over 140. You sound like the one who's mad >no really guys sports are very intellectually challenging lel

1 hours later 5571502 Anonymous
>>5571493 Calm down m8, I never said sports was intellectually challenging. It is physically challenging, and demands extreme concentration if it is a team sport. Now back to reading Brian Greene

1 hours later 5571510 Anonymous
>>5571488 >You people are just reacting badly because they earn something which no scientist can dream of earning. Scientists don't care about money. Justin bieber earns a lot more than any scientist and he is contributing nothing to society.

1 hours later 5571519 Anonymous
>>5571510 But they do. That's why many jump ship to Finance. "Just for science" is not an ideal I have seen. I bet most see it just as a job to earn money.... >contributing nothing to society What does a theoretical physics paper developing a gravitational theory in 6 dimensions contribute to society?

1 hours later 5571523 Anonymous
To be perfectly honest the vast majority of scientists probably don't contribute that much to the world.

1 hours later 5571524 Anonymous
>>5571488 You're right, it's not easy. But it's mentally retarded. I can assure you I'm not mad or jealous in any way. Actually I feel a little pity for them. >sportsperson tell me your gender honestly

1 hours later 5571528 Anonymous
>>5571523 They do as a whole, as opposed to contributing literally nothing like every sport

1 hours later 5571529 Anonymous
>>5571524 Male, why m8? I'm not saying anyone is jealous, I just think their salary is distorting people's views. Why are they mentally retarded?

1 hours later 5571533 Anonymous
>>5571528 But then, those who don't are just as useless as the sports people right? Mind you, many footballers make large donations to charity, or even run their own.

1 hours later 5571539 Anonymous
>>5571519 >"Just for science" is not an ideal I have seen. I bet most see it just as a job to earn money.... If ANYBODY goes into science to make money, they are fucking stupid and therefore will probably not succeed >What does a theoretical physics paper developing a gravitational theory in 6 dimensions contribute to society? Strawman detected. Lets try >what does theoretical physics contribute to society? Fucking a lot. eg "The first electronic digital computer was built in the basement of the physics department at Iowa State University in 1939 by Professor John Atanasoff, who had a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin".

1 hours later 5571545 Anonymous
>>5571539 >If ANYBODY goes into science to make money Well I don't think people do, but from my interactions with professors, I feel they just treat it as a job, no more, no less. >who had a Ph.D. in theoretical physics Oh, so that means that we thank theoretical physics for computers? And the reason I gave a specific example was that studies of that sort are dominant now. Zero contribution to society, no computers built.

1 hours later 5571548 Anonymous
>>5571528 Well, sports are really good for the economy, for one. Also, sports have a way of bringing people together, and promotes nationalistic identity, which when comparing your country to others is a good thing (you want the talented people to stay in your country because they think its the best, not just jump ship because they can get paid more somewhere else). Another thing I can think of off the top of my head is technological advances as a result of sports. Television (publicly) was first used to broadcast sports, same with radio. Also, sports give a hell of a lot of scientists jobs too. You think getting a job in R&D for Nike, Reebok, etc is easy? Saying that sports are useless is incredibly short-sighted.

1 hours later 5571550 Anonymous
>>5571548 I meant technology that got popular because of sports. People thought television was just going to be a fad, but then sports fans started watching games on it, which cemented its place in almost every house in the civilized world.

1 hours later 5571560 Anonymous
>>5571548 >promotes nationalistic identity Do not want. "I was born in this country so my country is better than yours lelel racism". No thanks. >Another thing I can think of off the top of my head is technological advances as a result of sports u wot m8. Because sports are on tv doesnt mean it invented tv

1 hours later 5571573 Anonymous
>>5571560 Ya, nationalism is kind of a double-edged sword I agree, but at the same time I think it has value. It's the easiest way of motivating extremely large groups of people to do something with their lives. I corrected myself on that. You also ignored my points on giving scientists jobs and the benefits to the economy.

1 hours later 5571604 Anonymous (TheFreeman.jpg 380x485 102kB)
Theoretical Physics from MIT In all seriousness HL1 was the reason I studied science

2 hours later 5571638 Anonymous
>>5571337 >>5571337 >>5571337 >>5571337 highscore

2 hours later 5571648 Anonymous (1357385706715.jpg 399x388 96kB)
>you will never obtain a Ph.D in any science from any international-elite university >you will never be autist-level at maths Why do I continue on with my farce of a life, /sci/?

2 hours later 5571668 Anonymous
>>5571479 Where'd the 300k come from? Is it just a meme or do people actually think this? INB4 Hurr Durr lurk moar.

2 hours later 5571686 Anonymous
>>5571668 It's a meme, and obviously no one is earning that much after a PhD

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