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Originally posted by Repugnant Abomination:
Einstien proved that time is relative. The faster you move the slower time goes.
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Einstein didn't prove anything... he theorized.
But yes, I often think that if I had the chance to start over again... I would seriously consider physics as a career. It's something I have great interest in, but no history... and I'm quite a bit behind the game by now.
I find quantum mechanics particularily interesting... especially quantum computing, where binary is no longer the root rather multiple stages of the atom are used.
This I find particularily interesting:
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For example, a system of 500 qubits, which is impossible to simulate classically, represents a quantum superposition of as many as 2500 states. Each state would be classically equivalent to a single list of 500 1's and 0's. Any quantum operation on that system --a particular pulse of radio waves, for instance, whose action might be to execute a controlled-NOT operation on the 100th and 101st qubits-- would simultaneously operate on all 2500 states. Hence with one fell swoop, one tick of the computer clock, a quantum operation could compute not just on one machine state, as serial computers do, but on 2500 machine states at once!
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http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html
So it's not astronomy, hell it's hardly related to what you are talking about, but physics man. I absolutely love physics.