Foo - I'm seriously considering finishing up a degree in Physics.

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Couch
11-13-12, 11:54 AM
Think of all the fun I can have with gravity, time and lower coefficients of frictions.

Couch

ModoVincere
11-13-12, 11:57 AM
yeah! I need a new oil for the snow/mud tobaggin.
Doohickie
11-13-12, 11:58 AM
I lowered my friction coefficient yesterday, if you know what I mean, and I know that you do.

Couch
11-13-12, 12:00 PM
I lowered my friction coefficient yesterday, if you know what I mean, and I know that you do.

Stop walking around the bush softly man! Tell me. What did you do?

Speak to Couchie.

Couch
no1mad
11-13-12, 12:17 PM
Do it.
MangoPumpkin
11-13-12, 12:23 PM
Ewww.
Shimagnolo
11-13-12, 12:30 PM
Think of all the fun I can have with gravity, time and lower coefficients of frictions.

Couch

Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE
skijor
11-13-12, 12:33 PM
enthusiasm = mudkipz x couch 2 ?
Couch
11-13-12, 12:40 PM
enthusiasm = mudkipz x couch 2 ?

You have lost me.

Couch
himespau
11-13-12, 12:54 PM
How far do you have left to go and what kind of degree is it? As an experimental scientist (microbiologist), I've always been jealous of theoretical physicists for whom "research" involves sitting in their offices and thinking and then maybe scribbling some math **** on a dry erase board and then sitting and thinking some more. Wash, rinse, repeat. Always repeat. If only I'd made it past multivariable calc, I could have joined them, but the math got boring (or hard, not sure which), so I decided studying bacteria would be more fun.
jsharr
11-13-12, 01:07 PM
Professor Couch, Professor Mudkipz, Professor Incident, so many possibilities. You should do this, get on staff at some university and teach. You would make a good teacher. Inge could stay in your lab and bite you to entertain the students. You would wear a tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows and smoke a pipe that was carved to look like a delicous bass.
Couch
11-13-12, 01:08 PM
How far do you have left to go and what kind of degree is it?

It was all undergrad work from many moons ago. To be honest, I would likely have to start all over again with Math classes and early Physics classes. This is all personal goal type stuff. I don't think I could ever successfully apply a degree like this in the real world.

Couch
CbadRider
11-13-12, 01:54 PM
Do it. Then you can wear this shirt:

http://rlv.zcache.com/resistance_is_futile_t_shirt_dark_version-rdbc72492e6ad4cc999d0ea9a67d44212_f0cz4_512.jpg
colorider
11-13-12, 02:13 PM
Ewww.

+1 Physics =/= fun (at least when I had to take it eons ago)
no motor?
11-13-12, 02:23 PM
You can start by watching the Big Bang Theory and taking notes.
Couch
11-13-12, 03:27 PM
You can start by watching the Big Bang Theory and taking notes.

I've already proved 75% percent of Sheldon's theories as pure hokum.

Couch
jsharr
11-13-12, 03:34 PM
Professor Mudkipz Von Couch!
windhchaser
11-13-12, 04:00 PM
only thing i think about when watching the big bang theory is how damn hot that short blond is not penny the other one
Couch
11-13-12, 04:13 PM
only thing i think about when watching the big bang theory is how damn hot that short blond is not penny the other one

They are both attractive. And they likely know how to form complete sentences in an understandable format.

Couch
Couch
11-13-12, 04:14 PM
Professor Mudkipz Von Couch!

I've started smoking a pipe. Perhaps, someday, I will become a Professor.

Couch
bigbenaugust
11-13-12, 04:17 PM
They are both attractive. And they likely know how to form complete sentences in and understandable format.

Couch

:lol:

I, for one, would love to study the Theory of Couchian Relativity.
cplager
11-13-12, 04:47 PM
I've already proved 75% percent of Sheldon's theories as pure hokum.


The technical advisor on the show is a high energy experimental physics professor at UCLA. :D
windhchaser
11-13-12, 04:49 PM
They are both attractive. And they likely know how to form complete sentences in an understandable format.

Couchthink they have any people skills? or are they just rude?
Couch
11-13-12, 04:50 PM
The technical advisor on the show is a high energy experimental physics professor at UCLA. :D

My physic professor at Cleveland State was the same way. Jearl Walker was the most influential professor I had in College. All around neat guy.

Couch
Couch
11-13-12, 04:51 PM
think they have any people skills? or are they just rude?

Does it matter?

Couch
windhchaser
11-13-12, 04:53 PM
Well yes it does nice people rock rude people do not
windhchaser
11-13-12, 04:54 PM
O you are from ohio? i left that place years ago i do miss the flats and the city transit
Tom Stormcrowe
11-13-12, 05:27 PM
I am very afraid of the idea of Couch studying High Energy Physics, or Quantum Physics. Especially Quantum........

He might just either interrupt the Quantum Flicker cycle, or he might collapse the wave front of the Higgs-Boson particle that comprises the macro Universe.
no motor?
11-13-12, 05:28 PM
I've started smoking a pipe. Perhaps, someday, I will become a Professor.

Couch
I think most of us picture you more as Gilligan (http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoKjN5aJQaxYAu6qJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimage s.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dgilligans%2Bisland%26fr%3Dgoodsearch-yhsif%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D39&w=736&h=552&imgurl=www.markymunster.com%2Fmm001.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markymunster.com%2Fgilligan.html&size=136+KB&name=GILLIGAN%26%2339%3BS+ISLAND+%3A&p=gilligans+island&oid=cbd7d2aa96147aef42dae3caef8bcfff&fr2=&fr=goodsearch-yhsif&tt=GILLIGAN%2526%252339%253BS%2BISLAND%2B%253A&b=0&ni=96&no=39&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119vufttt&sigb=13mhsvr7a&sigi=10u1ocrmt&.crumb=5WW5V8zzRSy).
Couch
11-13-12, 06:17 PM
I think most of us picture you more as Gilligan (http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoKjN5aJQaxYAu6qJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimage s.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dgilligans%2Bisland%26fr%3Dgoodsearch-yhsif%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D39&w=736&h=552&imgurl=www.markymunster.com%2Fmm001.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markymunster.com%2Fgilligan.html&size=136+KB&name=GILLIGAN%26%2339%3BS+ISLAND+%3A&p=gilligans+island&oid=cbd7d2aa96147aef42dae3caef8bcfff&fr2=&fr=goodsearch-yhsif&tt=GILLIGAN%2526%252339%253BS%2BISLAND%2B%253A&b=0&ni=96&no=39&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=119vufttt&sigb=13mhsvr7a&sigi=10u1ocrmt&.crumb=5WW5V8zzRSy).

Most of you don't picture me that way.

Apologize.

Couch
spry
11-13-12, 07:02 PM
I've started smoking a pipe. Perhaps, someday, I will become a Professor.

Couch

If you teach at a place like the University of Berkley Cal. or Penn State you won't have to wear pants ever again:thumb:

Professor Couch sans Pantaloons
spry
11-13-12, 07:09 PM
Most of you don't picture me that way.

Apologize.

Couch

I certainly do not view you that way!
But Maynard G Krebs.........possibly....,Mango as Zelda?
jdon
11-13-12, 07:43 PM
Think of all the fun I can have with gravity, time and lower coefficients of frictions.

Couch

You can do all that with the Simplephysics app. $.99
Wordbiker
11-13-12, 08:20 PM
I for one do not want Couch to hold the secrets of the atom within his grasp.
Jeff Wills
11-13-12, 10:20 PM
Does it matter?

Couch

What is matter?

FWIW: my nephew is working on his PhD at CalTech: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~rwills/
Obviously he got his brains from the other side of the family.
Makel
11-14-12, 02:34 AM
You'll have to wear clothes to school.
trsidn
11-14-12, 08:31 AM
I lowered my friction coefficient yesterday, if you know what I mean, and I know that you do.


I totally just spit soda all over my monitor...
trsidn
11-14-12, 08:33 AM
Most of you don't picture me that way.

Apologize.

Couch

I think of you more as Couch Guevara...
no motor?
11-14-12, 04:37 PM
Most of you don't picture me that way.

Apologize.

Couch
You'll never get those images out of my head!
no motor?
11-14-12, 04:37 PM
You'll have to wear clothes to school.
Not if he goes to one of those on line schools.
Doohickie
11-16-12, 10:55 AM
I totally just spit soda all over my monitor...

It's true. KY has some interesting product offerings these days.
longbeachgary
11-16-12, 11:04 AM
It was all undergrad work from many moons ago. To be honest, I would likely have to start all over again with Math classes and early Physics classes. This is all personal goal type stuff. I don't think I could ever successfully apply a degree like this in the real world.

Couch

Congratulations. I think it is always a good idea to further one's education. While it's something that may or may not have real-world applications, it is something that shows your dedication and commitment to learning and to your ability to set a goal and acheive it. Go for it.
Gary