Casimir_Effect said:
It would actually more frustrating to converse only with other physicists. They can be so dull at times.
My personal experience with economics is that it's not the field itself that cultivates boring personalities, but rather the academic pursuit of it. In simpler terms, all the interesting people I've met are those who are either actively working in the field or intending to work in it. The lifetime academics, on the other hand, are often about as dynamic as Microsoft Sam.
I do occasionally get pissed at how little most people know about physics both past and present. But those guys are better than armchair physicists, who deserve their own special circle of hell. The dick circle.
I can understand this sentiment. It'd be worse for you, seeing as the subject is scientific and thus more concrete in nature, but there is no shortage of armchair economists, either. I just have to sigh when someone gives me their nutshell solution to fixing the economy.
I'll admit I'm terrible at physics. I tried to take the subject at school, but I just didn't gel with it. I had no problem with calculus and the like, but as soon as the math was applied in any way, my brain would just go on strike.
