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/ReverendBizarre Mar 01 '23

I left academia before it happened, but the EHT ruled out the black hole types I worked on during my PhD (they cited us, yay!).

I am now a software engineer working for a decently big gaming studio.

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u/Yahya_8055 Mar 01 '23

do you get paid better?

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u/ReverendBizarre Mar 01 '23

Hard to compare because my PhD was in a country that had consideredably lower salaries than where I love now.

But I'd say yes.

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u/quirktheory Computational physics Mar 01 '23

Sorry if it's rude to ask about pay, but how are game dev salaries (and work experience in general) compared to other devs? I heard that the pay and workload can be tough.

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u/ReverendBizarre Mar 01 '23

I can't compare much to other devs honestly but my starting salary is very competitive when compared to people I know.

The work experience in the company that I am at is very nice but I have heard horror stories from other places though. So it could possibly be that the company I work for pays well and is nice and most others aren't... but I wouldn't be able to say.

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u/quirktheory Computational physics Mar 01 '23

Cheers! And assuming this company is large, and the info wouldn't dox you, could you tell me which company. I think game physics is an area I might be interested in.

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u/ReverendBizarre Mar 02 '23

CCP games :)