Getting a PhD in physics. Here's the long story: This video is actually from 10 years ago, I just found it and uploaded it recently. I never actually built a particle collider, I just stuck magnets next to a CRT TV which I had partially disassembled. A fun learning experience, absolutely. Actual science, no. I am currently getting a PhD in physics at CU Boulder working on an optical atomic clock at NIST. I have literally used it to contribute to the worlds time at record levels of accuracy. Now that I am doing physics professionally, I don't have as much desire to do amateur physics at home after work, or to make videos about it. If I want to do physics at home, I'll just keep doing work on the clock, there are always endless things to do. I've written a few peer reviewed scientific publications, you can see them on my google scholar (scholar.google.com/citations?user=mY5fWm8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao), and if you want to read the papers for free just throw the title into the Arxiv.org. So in short, I am an actual published professional physicist.

I went to graduate school for physics and now professional physics: publishing papers, taking data, and meetings take up all my time. There just isn't enough hours in the day for amateur physics any more. I should be getting my PhD sometime next year focusing on optical atomic clocks. If you are curious about what I'm up to here is a link to my google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=mY5fWm8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao And if you want to read the papers for free just toss the title into the arxiv.org/ and a free preprint will come up.

It is, come out next summer and lets get it!

Oh wow, I got the date of the first descent super wrong! Do you know if they wrote the guidebook section on it? I'd love to learn whatever else you know about this river, feel free to comment, or message me on Instagram or youtube. Thanks!

I started doing physics professionally instead of making amateur videos. I got an undergraduate degree in physics from the university of Maryland, and now I am mostly finished with a graduate degree in physics from CU boulder. I work on the Ytterbium optical lattice clock at NIST. I've published a few peer reviewed papers, if you are curious, you can look them up with my OrcID: 0000-0001-5546-998X Once I started doing physics for a job, I no longer have the desire to make physics videos when I'm off work, I'd rather kayak or ski. If I do have the desire to do physics after work, I'll just pull up some stuff from work and keep thinking about that, there are always endless problems to solve. Plus the quality of videos that need to be made on KZbin to be competitive and retain an audience has massively increased since I was making videos. I can't really put together large productions like that, and I don't think atomic clocks have the same "excitement" for a video that particle accelerators do.

Agreed, it would be really nice

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Yea, the portage after leap of faith existed, wasn't too bad. Now I hear you have to portage that plus leap of faith itself and it's not the most fun. I grew up on the Potomac, tom mcewan taught me to paddle, started running great falls in high school and stuck around for undergrad. Now Ive been in grad school out in colorado for 5 years. I come back to town sometimes to see my family for thanksgiving and stuff. And you did not get into paddling to late, boat designs have progressed so much, what I would have given for a good half slice 10 years ago.

Yellowstone

The wilderness. It is a place where people don’t go to because it’s hard living off the land, when you want free handouts. Joking aside it can be anywhere from eastern Washington to Wyoming because they have all the same geography, states included Idaho and western Montana. Unless the person that uploaded it gives the precise location we will never know.

It's the box canyon on the Clark's fork of the Yellowstone river, it's about an hour north of Cody wyoming.