Fuck you Barney
Why is there even a prestige system in schools? There's probably some dude making youtube lectures who can teach better theoretical physics than a professor at MIT.
>>738993313At MIT they teach you the real, secret quantum mechanics
>>738992826>Barney, you're not an animal person?
>>738993313because society needs a filter to keep the riff raff out of the top of the food-chain.that's it.
>>738993313knowledge acquisition isn't just sitting and listening to a lecture it's putting into practice with a specific goal, and then being given constructive feedback. you're getting neither of those by watching professor chungus talk about gauge theory.
>>738993795>you're getting neither of those by watching professor chungus talk about gauge theory.Maybe the youtube tutorial was an exaggeration but prestige schools are still a relic when knowledge and discussion avenues are so readily available compared to 50 years ago
>>738993990again you're focusing on just the raw knowledge source being obtained. the harsh reality is that nobody cares if you even have knowledge in a particular field, they care if you have a degree period. simply because it means you were able to do work, meet deadlines, obtain results, and meet expectations. the only place that's trusted to hold those standards is a prestige school.
>>738993795Theoretical physics and practical physics are different things for a reason. Gordon is a theoretical physicist. He got hired because he wrote a completely hypothetical thesis that was, by sheer coincidence, what Black Mesa was actually doing.Being made to push a cart down a rail was more "putting into practice with a specific goal" than anything else he'd done in his entire academic career up to then.
>>738993313the paper you get at the end of it is important. YT lectures can't give you that
