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Subject: Theoretical Physicist???

After rereading my op I can understand the confusion but I know a theoretical physicist is real. Why does Bungie have one? I guess it could be for engineering purposes but that seems strange. As far as quantam computing goes unless I would be very impressed if Bungie had access to this kind of tech for the simple purpose of data mining.

  • 11.10.2012 8:43 AM PDT

Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Anyone else feel dumb now?

Slightly.

  • 11.10.2012 8:46 AM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Anyone else feel dumb now?
Well I, for one, just had my faith restored in the intelligence of the Internet, or at least this site.

  • 11.10.2012 9:06 AM PDT


Posted by: sawnose
I have the degree, so in theory I'm a physicist, just not in practice. So I'm a merely theoretical physicist.


I could be a physicist if I studied hard enough, does that make me a theoretical physicist as well?

  • 11.10.2012 9:10 AM PDT

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What's going on in this thread...
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Well if you take into account the quantum flux of the QPR Magnet Theorem and adjust for any sort of exponential trigonometric variation in the dynamic upper bound of any given data set excreted from an integrated circuit, you could really maximize the output of it tenfold.
Uhhh, yeah.. I'm just gonna go now.


Don't worry - that's just technical jargon, people often spew it out to make themselves look smarter than they actually are. I'm a physicist by the way - studying at the University of Birmingham (excellent university for Physics).
I was actually just parodying the other talk in the thread. I figured after I used an English football team as a theorem and used the word "excreted" that'd be obvious.

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  • 11.10.2012 9:11 AM PDT


Posted by: Dark Elation
After rereading my op I can understand the confusion but I know a theoretical physicist is real. Why does Bungie have one? I guess it could be for engineering purposes but that seems strange. As far as quantam computing goes unless I would be very impressed if Bungie had access to this kind of tech for the simple purpose of data mining.


Quantum computing isn't that far off. I suppose that's maybe just my opinion. But, I attended a seminar a few weeks back about this. Researchers are up to about 12 or so gates I believe, with the idea that around 80-90 are needed for this to be feasible.

Also, companies are usually the ones who fund the research. Imaging, for example, is very well developed partially because of video games.

  • 11.10.2012 9:14 AM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Posted by: Dark Elation
After rereading my op I can understand the confusion but I know a theoretical physicist is real. Why does Bungie have one? I guess it could be for engineering purposes but that seems strange. As far as quantam computing goes unless I would be very impressed if Bungie had access to this kind of tech for the simple purpose of data mining.
My understanding is that Bungie does not have a position for Theoretical (or expirimental) Physicists. Sawnose has a degree in Theoretical Physics, but I would imagine he was hired on for programming skills, as the majority of physicists can program in one or several languages, even if that language is just Matlab.

[Edited on 11.10.2012 9:39 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2012 9:39 AM PDT

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."


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Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Anyone else feel dumb now?

Slightly.

More than slightly

  • 11.10.2012 9:43 AM PDT

δόξει τις ἀμαθεῖ σοφὰ λέγων οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.

Euripides, Bacchae. 480.


Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Anyone else feel dumb now?


Nope. Every academic discipline has its own jargon.

  • 11.10.2012 9:51 AM PDT


Posted by: A Deaf Boy
Anyone else feel dumb now?

*raises hand

  • 11.10.2012 10:19 AM PDT

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This man right here deserves nothing.

  • 11.10.2012 10:33 AM PDT

I'm Shoot U up. I've been a member here since January 12th, 2006. I'm a proud member of the Ninja Academy, as well as Team Timeout. Feel free to send me a message. Join Teamtimeout!

I have a theoretical degree in Physics. Need credentials? I've read three Brian Greene books!

  • 11.10.2012 12:53 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: sawnose
I have the degree, so in theory I'm a physicist, just not in practice. So I'm a merely theoretical physicist.
Thanks. I needed a laugh today.
OT: They're Bungie, they can have funny or awesome titles like that.

  • 11.10.2012 1:24 PM PDT
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Be nice to noobs..Remember even MLG players were noobs at one point.

"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."

  • 11.10.2012 5:24 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Who said Bungie's World Domination isn't currently thriving?

  • 11.10.2012 5:50 PM PDT
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Is amused by many of those arguing for no reason

Maybe to help with physics within their new IP? A theoretical physicist could be useful for a lot of things (hypothetically).
Personally I'm studying to be a geophysicist, if I can't hit it with seismic waves then it doesn't exist!

  • 11.10.2012 5:52 PM PDT
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>My face when this thread

  • 11.10.2012 11:11 PM PDT

Gamers Anon

Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".

Any other jobs for a physicist at Bungie?

  • 11.11.2012 3:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Muzza777
Any other jobs for a physicist at Bungie?

You wouldn't be looking for an Astrophysicist by any chance, would you?
Y'know, because Sci-Fi games are sooo much more fun when they're scientifically accurate... >_>

  • 11.11.2012 3:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: sawnose
Yep, for certain topics like RSA cryptography. And that was the first big algorithm discovered/created, and it's somewhat surprising that in the 25 years or so since that first big leap, nothing has surpassed it.
It's actually quite interesting why this hasn't happened. Although RSA does underpin the rest of cryptography in computing, that's all it does, underpin. It's used once for secure key exchange or identification and then left alone for as long as you can trust the keys exchanged. So, if RSA ever comes close to being broken, we can just make the bit length of the prime numbers used infeasibly large. Compared to, say, AES, which has to be employed over and over again in realtime on every bit of data, RSA is used once to encapsulate one relatively small piece of text and exchange it, again only once.

So, why bother improving it? At the end of the day, unless it's found to have gaping security holes, any "better" algorithms are only going to be a linear improvement, simply increasing the bit length gives you exponential improvements in security.

  • 11.11.2012 5:41 AM PDT
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I'm not so good with advice...Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?


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