Why those topics in particular?
What's required to sufficiently "know" them? A grade in a course?
What qualifies you to talk (joke?) about who is/isn't a physicist?
This kind of gatekeeping is toxic, fuels egos, and is too common.
A physicist is a person who does physics.
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Replying to @DennisForen
disagree. there exists some threshold of basic physics concepts you need to know to be able to consider yourself a physicist. (can you really be a physicist without understanding what a force is or what a vector is?) I think this threshold includes all 3 of QM, EM, and thermo.
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Replying to @bencbartlett
Why those topics? What's required to sufficiently "know" those topics? What qualifies you to set these standards & tell someone they aren't a physicist? If I research quantum fields for decades but forget everything I know about Maxwell's Eqs, why am I no longer a physicist?
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Replying to @DennisForen @bencbartlett
i think we're getting somewhat off track .. the point is that if you wanted to use maxwell's equations you could look them up and use standard methods within around a day or so .. i would definitely say that constitutes an understanding
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in the same way that no dev knows every language but they could certainly learn it faster than any of us ..
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