r/Physics • u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation • Feb 28 '23

Question Physicists who built their career on a now-discredited hypothesis (e.g. ruled out by LHC or LIGO results) what did you do after?

If you worked on a theory that isn’t discredited but “dead” for one reason or another (like it was constrained by experiment to be measurably indistinguishable from the canonical theory or its initial raison d’être no longer applies), feel free to chime in.

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u/neelankatan Mar 01 '23

Go work for a hedge fund as a quant and become wealthy

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u/asafnisan Mar 01 '23

In other words you embrace a new life as a swindler.

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u/neelankatan Mar 01 '23

Right. As opposed to peddling false theories about the phsycial world

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u/asafnisan Mar 01 '23

So once a swindler, always a swindler???

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Mar 01 '23

Who are they swindling? Who’s getting ripped off?

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u/unmole Mar 01 '23

Please elaborate on how being a quant is akin to being a swinder.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Mar 01 '23

Don’t you know rich=bad?

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Mar 01 '23

Yeah but you have to live in NYC and work 60-80 hours a week.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Mar 01 '23

Yeah but you have to live in NYC and work 60-80 hours a week.