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A Day in the Life as a Physicist | REAL Physics Research at Cambridge
Here I show you a day in the life as physicist based on my PhD in the Physics at the University of Cambridge! We go inside a world-leading physics lab (with crazy lasers), I show you what my life/routine is like, and also show you how the scientific process REALLY works.
My PhD is based on understanding the fundamental physics of organic materials we could potentially use to build cheaper and more efficient solar panels to help develop renewable energy and solve the climate crisis.
00:00 Intro
00:22 Morning routine
01:15 Start lab work
03:23 Lunch
03:37 More labwork
06:19 Data analysis
10:38 Dinner & evening routine
11:28 Outtakes
A big thank you to my supervisor, Prof Akshay Rao, as well as Yorrick and Daniel for their help with the video.
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  • @mardikermardiker8514
    @mardikermardiker8514 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What actually real Quant. physicist does is looking for a job.

  • @HenryBriskin
    @HenryBriskin วันที่ผ่านมา

    Solve Schrodinger's equations

  • @user-lw2zt9ne9o
    @user-lw2zt9ne9o วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sit there counting counters all day because that is what quantum is naked doesn't own an abacus

  • @karikukamau
    @karikukamau 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Here I was waiting for them to battle really really tiny bad-guys

  • @amreshyadav2758
    @amreshyadav2758 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They waste taxpayers money.. Like what homeopathy doctor's do every day.. 😂

  • @cajmere9203
    @cajmere9203 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video but why is he so jerky and awkward that would kinda irk me standing next to him

  • @menglongyouk167
    @menglongyouk167 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm enjoying the video until the last part when you reveal yourself as united fan. xD

  • @mrgreen4688
    @mrgreen4688 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I figured they make memes all day…

  • @storyofsadia
    @storyofsadia 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For the first time I am seeing some positive responses for PhD. Otherwise nowadays everyone is busying to portray PhD as end of life and it's one of the worst decisions you take in your life.

  • @Usman-ys9tw
    @Usman-ys9tw 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Even in serious stuff you add music, comedy & obscene language. Pathetic.

  • @borabuyukturk
    @borabuyukturk 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for the video

  • @musicsubicandcebu1774
    @musicsubicandcebu1774 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How about finding out what's wrong with humans in the first place i.e. what makes them so untrustworthy?

  • @Jim1971a
    @Jim1971a 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Goo said that there was no dust in the clean room. I highly doubt that. There was no air lock. They put their clean room attire on in a regular room with dust and walked directly into the clean room with all of the dust from the other room. I thought they were going to go through some kind of intermediary room with a 20 second blast of air to blow off the dust, but Goo just brought them in. There HAS to be dust in that clean room.

  • @jarrodsio
    @jarrodsio 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You're a Johnian. lucky u.

  • @TheZafootz
    @TheZafootz 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What a joke this is and a complete waste of resources. How these "Quantum Mechanic Scientist" claim that anything emits "photons" is the most delusional idea to ever arise in physics. They have proven over and over that they do not understand how light detectors work and what happens when a material emits light. 1st of all Light is an electromagnetic wave that is emitted by a particle and if that wave has enough energy when it comes into contact with another material/particle then that particle will emit its own electromagnetic wave in response to the energy from the 1st wave. 2nd a Light detector does not detect photons what it has is a large amount of very low energy particles that are sensitive to low energy electromagnetic waves and because we are always being bombarded with electromagnetic waves 24/7 of all different energy levels the detector has to be calibrated to not sense any unwanted light by raising its sensitivity to just above the "Noise level floor" that all light detectors have. Like the static we see on old TV sets or the static we here over the radio are examples of the noise level floor that all light detectors have and must be set to just the right level so when a electromagnetic wave of low energy comes into contact with it then a single particle from the detector will rise above the noise level floor emitting a electromagnetic wave that can now be seen or detected by another light detector with an even more sensitive noise level floor that I would assume would be in a very dark area to keep the noise level as low as possible. Light is a electromagnetic wave that comes from glowing particles this is why these people think light is a wave and a particle because in order to produce light you must then make a particle itself glow so light consists of particles that are glowing and emitting waves of light. To say that Light travels as both a wave and a particle is nothing but a delusion and they call this Quantum Mechanics. If these were real scientist doing real experiments then they would understand how their equipment works and not make foolish ideas and theory's by only knowing what their equipment tells them as results. Learn how technology is built and how technology works then use that technology to do experiments where you fully understand whats going on and please spare the rest of us with your non sensical delusion ideas that do not connect with real reality.....

  • @davidowens2738
    @davidowens2738 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Omg. Take the masks off. Pathetic

  • @johnkochen7264
    @johnkochen7264 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What does a quantum physicist do for fun? She watches visiting journalists struggle getting into dust-free clothing.

  • @westmassdave7354
    @westmassdave7354 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    th-cam.com/video/dP98UA8eJEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=V679n_WsbYJ2KKFX

  • @dreed7312
    @dreed7312 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They consume public funds better spent elsewhere. Bedazzling you with nonsensical experiments they claim will finally lead to some great discovery. None of it ever leads to anything but more money spent on more fake science.

  • @user-nq3ml1xm9z
    @user-nq3ml1xm9z 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love that you showed a timeline of how you started off excited, quickly got bogged down, decided to eat, still frustrated, but eventually hit something hours later. Exactly the same research process I go through. As my advisor always says, that’s the “re” in “research”! Always need a little caffeine to get you motivated again. Also, I have that same Thorlabs cup!!

  • @HonchHeado
    @HonchHeado 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not very much not very value for money.

  • @johnboyajian1689
    @johnboyajian1689 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Do they ever find there job to be boring, after doing there work so much?

  • @westmassdave7354
    @westmassdave7354 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I would suggest a collaborative effort th-cam.com/video/-8Nj2uTZc10/w-d-xo.htmlsi=gcMtvQ5nJMuKbw9r

  • @westmassdave7354
    @westmassdave7354 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc What color laser do you use? Why is boron so important?

  • @lewebusl
    @lewebusl 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They are at all places at the same time ... until you look at them, then their wave functions collapse and they are there only with you. Boy, do they hate that...

  • @akademesanctuary1361
    @akademesanctuary1361 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love the CGI. LOL You are describing a direct line of communication without repeaters, boosters, or intermediary devices to process the direction of communications traffic. When we were experimenting with such communications back in the early eighties, it naturally fell apart when we put any distance between. We could send an array of tv stations between one lab and the next, about 40 m apart, but at a few hundred meters.... You need something like fiber optics to retain the focus. It's one thing to work out the ends and another to work out the middle. Good luck!

  • @greymonwar9906
    @greymonwar9906 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is very well-presented and very good work environment💯🔥

  • @Someonefromearth123
    @Someonefromearth123 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I did my PhD second time, but I only hold one PhD diploma. Even though I could able to get my first PhD, I prefered to quit from the program with just a MSc degree. In my 2nd PhD, I was working 80 hours per week with almost all the weekends and vacations since the university was demanding from PhD students 3 papers and finish the selective and compulsary courses within 3 years. In my field, it is not easy to publish three papers in a short time, even one is so difficult within three years. Thus, I had to work quite hard to complete my PhD on time. Otherwise, as an international student, I would end up with financial and practical problems like residance permit, if it was extended. PhD is not easy, especially if you are an international student in a foreign country.

  • @melanynadine972
    @melanynadine972 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sounds like the dream daily routine for me. Still doing my degree in physics (currently in pause due to financial and health problems but soon resuming) and it seems basically imposible for me.. I guess for any Latam-trapped folk grown in poverty. Gonna fight for it as much as I can and hopefully I'll be lucky enough to make it :')

  • @mrflick7645
    @mrflick7645 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Anal?

  • @graememorrison333
    @graememorrison333 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They make videos 'saying 'oh, look at me. Aren't I clever.' Jeez

  • @spongamabob6563
    @spongamabob6563 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "in about a decade" stop playing around this is going to take hundreds of years

  • @ehsanjabbar4563
    @ehsanjabbar4563 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    9:22 fourth line This in* turn

  • @letitiabeausoleil4025
    @letitiabeausoleil4025 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was thinking you were rather tall hobits.

  • @mariyam8332
    @mariyam8332 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm really Happy today, i found this channel. It's really helpful, more power to you mr. Alexander. More videos on marine biologist, bio medical sciences, pharmaceuticals....

  • @ZenHulk
    @ZenHulk 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well when she looks like that, she spends half the day fighting off nerdy scientist with pocket protectors, some of us think smart women are the best.

  • @ctuna2011
    @ctuna2011 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where did that electron go?

  • @johnyrusoc
    @johnyrusoc 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Each day 8 hours of honest hard work including study, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of family, friends, health and wellbeing meaning 8+8+8=24 hours! Perfect!

  • @jordy_X5
    @jordy_X5 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Quantum count: 31

  • @willrose5424
    @willrose5424 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Does Hannah know Thor? 😁 She looks familiar.

  • @ayannibirkaushik7501
    @ayannibirkaushik7501 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    (no hate to anyone) (and Not making fun of anyone) Is his name really goo...honestly in indian language(Hindi) goo means human waste...or you can say poop💩

  • @GraciaYasin
    @GraciaYasin 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I hope to do that one day 😊❤

  • @StephenBelcher-sr3zk
    @StephenBelcher-sr3zk 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That won’t Work, All the wires are tangled up!”

  • @run1492
    @run1492 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Could it be possible to hack quantum comms by replacing the photons with ones with undetermined state after reading the original ones? Why do you need so many lenses in that open laser? Thanks

    • @ayannibirkaushik7501
      @ayannibirkaushik7501 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      To focus the laser at a point as small as possilbe..and all that lensens do that cumulatively. i dont have the other answer.

  • @jose_ramos_7
    @jose_ramos_7 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Liverpool fans were hurt in the making of this video

  • @irishceltic
    @irishceltic 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @muslim7492
    @muslim7492 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So they do exist in real life huh !!!

  • @samirchandranag1820
    @samirchandranag1820 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This video really too helps me to get some experience .

  • @karthikpkirawadi8996
    @karthikpkirawadi8996 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thermodynamics ❤❤❤

  • @simongruba3293
    @simongruba3293 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I dream of becoming a physicist one day. Right now I am starting my Mathematics-Education-Major in Masters Degree; hopefully I will finish it in 2-3 years. After finishing math education I will get another 4 year degree to become a physicist. Thank you for the video. Now, it makes me more motivated to make my dream come true.