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What is a scientist?
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It's like asking whether source code counts as a program. Math is the source code for the physical universe, and physics is the compiled program in which everything else runs.
*Note: that may be a crappy analogy, as I know next to nothing about programming except for basic C++. Lol.
Suspicious-Teach8788
Lifer
PhD. Done.
Engineer can be PhD too but the scientists we have are in the R&D lab. Many of them are socially awkward but we let them do their own thing. It's kinda a challenge when you see them working on characterization tools and we engineers run in with production issues that need to be resolved and need to borrow equipment, but you see the scientists there sitting and investigating, spending the whole day. Sometimes you just gotta kick them off because manufacturing = revenue and time is money.
But they're useful. Sometimes you really need to understand WHY our production tools aren't behaving the way we want them to, and as an engineer you can come up with reasons that can be solved by engineering solutions, but at other times you need to know the concepts and what helps you get to what you need. This is why I sometimes have to talk to the scientists.
Engineer can be PhD too but the scientists we have are in the R&D lab. Many of them are socially awkward but we let them do their own thing. It's kinda a challenge when you see them working on characterization tools and we engineers run in with production issues that need to be resolved and need to borrow equipment, but you see the scientists there sitting and investigating, spending the whole day. Sometimes you just gotta kick them off because manufacturing = revenue and time is money.
But they're useful. Sometimes you really need to understand WHY our production tools aren't behaving the way we want them to, and as an engineer you can come up with reasons that can be solved by engineering solutions, but at other times you need to know the concepts and what helps you get to what you need. This is why I sometimes have to talk to the scientists.
By a strict definition, it is, though we don't typically think of it that way because experiments are more thought experiments, and results are achieved through proofs, not physical experimentation.
"Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns,[2][3] formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[4]" Wikipedia
darkxshade
Lifer
A scientist is a follower of scientology like a christian is a follower of christianity.
Jeff7
Lifer
Well, lots of people seem to disagree on this sort of thing. Is the Bible literal, or is it subject to interpretation? And if it's the latter, then whose interpretation is right? Lots of people know exactly what it is that God wants for us - problem is, few of them can seem to agree.
It was perhaps worded incorrectly.
Math is our way of describing the source code for this Universe.
GodlessAstronomer
Lifer
Tell that to a string theorist 😉
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