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What is it like to solve a physics problem at the graduate or post graduate level?
For background here, I'm a high school student.
I've recently been reading a lot about how it's like to solve math problems at the research level. They just pick interesting questions in their field and work on them. It's just problem solving but a pretty high level. However, it's been very hard to find a physics equivalent answer to this question. All the posts I have been reading about are about experimentation and collecting data and no seems to discuss what it's like to solve problems at the research level. What do you theoretical physicists work on?
I read Walter Isaacson's biography on Albert Einstein and from what I saw, he was doing much the same thing in physics too. He was asking what are the implications if speed of light is constant in any frame? Is this a special case or is research level theoretical physics the same?
I would really love it if you guys could explain with an example which you have worked on.
P.S : If there are any sources where I could read more about this I would be grateful :) .
#science
For background here, I'm a high school student.
I've recently been reading a lot about how it's like to solve math problems at the research level. They just pick interesting questions in their field and work on them. It's just problem solving but a pretty high level. However, it's been very hard to find a physics equivalent answer to this question. All the posts I have been reading about are about experimentation and collecting data and no seems to discuss what it's like to solve problems at the research level. What do you theoretical physicists work on?
I read Walter Isaacson's biography on Albert Einstein and from what I saw, he was doing much the same thing in physics too. He was asking what are the implications if speed of light is constant in any frame? Is this a special case or is research level theoretical physics the same?
I would really love it if you guys could explain with an example which you have worked on.
P.S : If there are any sources where I could read more about this I would be grateful :) .
#science
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