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To: Ilaine who wrote (46627)	2/9/2000 4:11:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 71178

It is a grave mistake to mess up physics with mathematics, and Nick is right to try to learn electronics without confusing the issue with mathematics. I've known several Nobel laureates in physics and their greatest achievements were experimental. Einstein, of course, had to go to work in the Swiss patent office, and he always said that examining patents was where he really learned physics. He was not great in math. Bardeen always said that true physics was gadgetry, although his major contributions were theoretical (2 Nobel (shared) prizes -- the transistor effect and a (incorrect) theory of superconductivity. During the 1970's when various accelerators were being shut down, a friend at UI got his refunded. The Asst Dir of NSF explained it to me -- "he made his graduate students do all the electrical work" and "he soldered incredibly fast." By all means encourage Nick to learn every thing he can about being an electronics technician. He will learn the math he needs in due time. James Watt was a lab artificer (technician) at the University of Edinburgh. No one remembers the names of the natural scientists he worked for. Faraday and Franklin never went to college.

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