Is salty the brainiest boffin of 1ff?

[blade1889]

Cheese and Biscuits is probably one of the least intelligent tbf

 

[Stevencc]

People are intelligent in different ways, aren't they? It doesn't surprise me that Saltire's posts in the politics and football sections make him seem a complete plank when in fact he's extremely gifted in maths and science.

I have a PhD in Politics but am average at maths and fucking terrible when it comes to anything remotely technical.

If we're taking most intelligent to mean most persuasive/interesting to read...it's got to be Scummers, hasn't it? Paranoid Pineapple, Veggie Legs, SUTSS and Ebeneezer Goode are all good too. Ian_Wrexham is obviously a bright bloke too, although part of me thinks he's going mental. Everyone is a fascist now, apparently.

That's a good point.

I've got a degree in English literature but when it comes to maths or anything remotely scientific I'm clueless.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Cheese and Biscuits is probably one of the least intelligent tbf

At last, some recognition.

 

[Camborne Gills]

We won't need to. He'll kill us all with with the massive space gun he's going to make (if my understanding of what astro physicists do is correct)

Not good enough! Besides which, Stewie Griffin has already done it, and he's only an '18 month old' cartoon character.

Wasn't Salty a seal anyway?

 

[SALTIRE]

Saltire was probably very intelligent when he did these degrees. Since then however his brain has been pickled in whisky.

Thats too true, Ardbeg was going cheap in Tesco today so there's my weekend sorted!

 

[TheMinsterman]

I'm doing a PhD in History and have a modest likes to posts ratio. Do I win anything?

 

[Pliny Harris]

As someone who just about managed to get MPhys after his name, I can confirm physicists aren't necessarily all dat when it comes to being balanced human beings. Physics PhD students have some awe-striking intellectual talent though, and so do their Masters counterparts by and large. Oftentimes it comes at the price of learning how high their trousers should go, or believing that Men's Rights Activism is anything more than a horrible joke, but I was very much impressed by what those who stuck the four years could do.

The best and more well-rounded physicists are absolute dons though. There's at least one physicist/mathematician on most good University Challenge teams for a reason...

 

[SALTIRE]

As someone who just about managed to get MPhys after his name, I can confirm physicists aren't necessarily all dat when it comes to being balanced human beings.

The best and more well-rounded physicists are absolute dons though.

I agree about that actually; a good friend of mine got her MPhys, finished uni and went to teach in Hong Kong, didn't like it and went from job to job here, admitting afterwards she wasn't ready for 'the outside world'. She has matured since that however, went back to uni, got her PhD and is doing fine in the banking sector. It took her a long time though.

Another mate of mine has amazing arrogance though, he always thinks that no matter what he does he can't do anything wrong, and can be short with people if they don't grasp things as fast, or in the same way as him. He more than met his match with a German lad we met in second year though, a complete natural at his subject - awkward but fun in company and every task and tutorial he had to do, he done in no time with not much revision and it made my arrogant mate really jealous. He was strange around me though, as the stuff he knew better than me he didn't push my buttons too much, and he would ask me to help him with some of the astrophysics or maths stuff that he knew I was better at him on. Strange guy.

I did some pure maths for a while also, and anyone who has spent time with that lot will get a surprise. You wouldn't trust them to tie their shoelaces - completely eccentric and absorbed in their own abstract little world, its fascinating to watch. When I went back to the applied section it was like chalk and cheese, they were down to earth and practical, yet really knew their stuff and some of them were world leaders in their field.

It takes all kinds.

 

[SALTIRE]

I'm doing a PhD in History and have a modest likes to posts ratio. Do I win anything?

Have you done any parapsychology/paranormal studies that relate to your investigations mate?

 

[Pliny Harris]

I agree about that actually; a good friend of mine got her MPhys, finished uni and went to teach in Hong Kong, didn't like it and went from job to job here, admitting afterwards she wasn't ready for 'the outside world'. She has matured since that however, went back to uni, got her PhD and is doing fine in the banking sector. It took her a long time though.

Another mate of mine has amazing arrogance though, he always thinks that no matter what he does he can't do anything wrong, and can be short with people if they don't grasp things as fast, or in the same way as him. He more than met his match with a German lad we met in second year though, a complete natural at his subject - awkward but fun in company and every task and tutorial he had to do, he done in no time with not much revision and it made my arrogant mate really jealous.

I did some pure maths for a while also, and anyone who has spent time with that lot will get a surprise. You wouldn't trust them to tie their shoelaces - completely eccentric and absorbed in their own abstract little world, its fascinating to watch. When I went back to the applied section it was like chalk and cheese, they were down to earth and practical, yet really knew their stuff and some of them were world leaders in their field.

A minority are readily functional, some take a few extra years to really catch up with human interactions, working out what to do with themselves (eg. me), some never quite get it or ever intend to.

I hardly interacted with my physics year in honesty. I think there was a tightly knit core amongst them but I never paid attention as I befriended English lit students in freshers week and never felt I needed them. Didn't exactly help my prospects there, and I'm sure they weren't all bad.

Ironically maths was the part of my degree I was best at. I had most of it worked out, and though it takes real effort as soon as I "get" a mathematical process it's in there, and I can plough through it comfortably. Would've gone insane if I'd taken mathematics instead though, especially pure. I have to come up for air too much to dive in that deep. Never met any maths students around either, I just assume they were small clouds of effervescent gas, floating from lecture theatre to seminar room and back. It doesn't surprise me that the maths students would be even further gone than the physics crowd.

Main thing is my year of physicists were a funny looking bunch. There was nothing untoward about the PhD physicists I worked with, but some of the undergrads in my year wouldn't have looked out of place in Alloa.

 

[Camborne Gills]

This is all very well, but what are you all like in pub quizzes?

 

[Veggie Legs]

I did some pure maths for a while also, and anyone who has spent time with that lot will get a surprise. You wouldn't trust them to tie their shoelaces - completely eccentric and absorbed in their own abstract little world, its fascinating to watch. When I went back to the applied section it was like chalk and cheese, they were down to earth and practical, yet really knew their stuff and some of them were world leaders in their field.

It takes all kinds.

I'd love to say that we're not that bad, but it would probably be a lie. I did a four year undergrad course and there were only about 20 of us left in the fourth year, so I got to know people pretty well. Lovely people, and some who were incredibly intelligent, but I think it's fair to say that 'real world' stuff wasn't a forte of many (and I include myself in that).

Although for the record I think computer science students are the weirdest/geekiest.

 

[Habbinalan]

So half the people in this thread don't just watch Big Bang Theory, they understand it?

 

[Pliny Harris]

It takes all kinds.

Did you study any general relativity or advanced quantum, by the way?

 

[Abertawe]

How can we measure it?

The most intelligent person I know is a massive drug user and is forever financially skint. Dude breezed school and achieved a*'s in every subject but stopped at college. I'd guarantee he'd mix it with the best PhD G's in science related topics despite never going onto that level.

On here I'd begrudgingly say EG is an intelligent son of a gun in terms of being able to quantify his opinions & beliefs. I think he's a bit too insular in his ways on occasion and so would benefit from doing acid.

 

[TheArtfulDodger]

Finchy is the cleverest bloke I know, certainly the cleverest bloke you know. Reads a book a week.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Good god, this is a proper nerd fest isn't? For the record, I haven't even got an 'A' level (4 os & 4 CSEs), and I get by.

 

[Red]

Good god, this is a proper nerd fest isn't? For the record, I haven't even got an 'A' level (4 os & 4 CSEs), and I get by.

Get out of this thread simpleton.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

it's got to be Scummers, hasn't it?

 

[mistermagic]

I have a masters degree in asset management.

It's completely useless.

 

[Red]

Idiot can't even spell a four letter word correctly.

 

[SALTIRE]

Did you study any general relativity or advanced quantum, by the way?

I dhdnt do much quantum perhaps only three courses but I got a couple of books on it a few years back and have rifled through them. I have studied general relativity though and went back to it pretty recently as there was a few things I was wanting to look at. It is a beautiful theory and how it links a lot of other areas up never ceases to amaze me. It is one of the triumphs of human thought.

 

[Stagat]

I have a masters degree in ass et management.

It's completely useless.

Ass and management sounds quite interesting tbh.

 

[SALTIRE]

I'd love to say that we're not that bad, but it would probably be a lie. I did a four year undergrad course and there were only about 20 of us left in the fourth year, so I got to know people pretty well. Lovely people, and some who were incredibly intelligent, but I think it's fair to say that 'real world' stuff wasn't a forte of many (and I include myself in that).

Although for the record I think computer science students are the weirdest/geekiest.

Yes I didn't want to stigmatise all pure mathematicians but they did think about things in a different way. I found the rigour of a lot of pure maths boring but the courses I did on fractals were probably the most fun courses I did at uni. I met a guy through my sister the other month who is now a teacher but studied pure at uni and i got on very well with him but he was one of the few sane ones I met I have to say!

 

[Red]

Ass and management sounds quite interesting tbh.

Stagat has just come out

 

[Stagat]

 

[SALTIRE]

How can we measure it?

The most intelligent person I know is a massive drug user and is forever financially skint. Dude breezed school and achieved a*'s in every subject but stopped at college.

The same here. The most intelligent person I knew growing up was my dad who I suppose gave me my love for science and he knew tonnes of stuff on a whole range of topics and used to build his own telescopes when he himself was growing up. Unfortunately he had other problems and he never fulfilled his potential. I admit I have been the same the last few years with things going on in my life but hopefully I am beginning to correct that soon.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Although for the record I think computer science students are the weirdest/geekiest.

FFS

 

[Pliny Harris]

I dhdnt do much quantum perhaps only three courses but I got a couple of books on it a few years back and have rifled through them. I have studied general relativity though and went back to it pretty recently as there was a few things I was wanting to look at. It is a beautiful theory and how it links a lot of other areas up never ceases to amaze me. It is one of the triumphs of human thought.

Absolutely. What a stretch of imagination, a suspension of disbelief and Olympian mental athleticism to come up with that kind of reading of our Universe on a grand scale. There are some very satisfying aspects to it too. As for getting into the nitty gritty of it, I still remember the moment I finally worked out how Ricci tensors behaved and feeling like a god over it. Me and physics remain amicably split but revisiting that sort of thing will happen at some point.

 

[RavenBish]

Nerds