<p>“No - I didn’t study physics. I got pretty far in biology. I understand the creativity of manipulating to derive answers. I respect it beyond belief because I can’t do it well. I guess I wasn’t clear. I just meant that, no matter what you have to do to get there, someone’s already figured it out before you - maybe the numbers were different, but unless you’re creating a new theorum, it’s been done.”</p>
<p>That’s because you have to be very intelligent to make that kind of contribution to science and mathematics. Take for example, the discipline of theoretical high energy physics. This field is very selective. If 10,000 freshmen from CC were to sit down in a room, and if they all tried to become successful theoretical high energy physicists, 1 of them would probably make it all the way through. The selectivity varies for the different engineering disciplines, but in general the reason why you can’t create something new instantly is because very very very smart people sat down before you and worked it out systematically in a manner that has been refined to be superior to anything you can come up with. So once you study how they did it, THEN you can improve things. And boy do the results show, because this **** works. I think that’s the real joy you get out of engineering. You see that the theory works in practice; it’s a slamming confirmation of science (it works *****es!).</p>