Personal –
I started my studies at the university doing astrophysics, because I wanted to understand everything – from the smallest molecule to the largest galaxy. It wasn’t long before I discovered that, as an astrophysicist, you spend most of your time struggling with computer-code and staring at computer screens, because the data coming from telescopes is too complex for humans to handle.
What I also found difficult to swallow, is the ease with which astrophysicists seem to accept wildly speculative theories. An example of such a theory is the Big Bang Theory.
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