All physicists implicitly use these assumptions when they work. Only the Christian, however, has a reason to believe that these assumptions are valid. If you desire to know how and why the natural world around you works and you have an aptitude for mathematics, then a major in physics might be right for you. The technology that dominates the world around us, automobiles, computers, airplanes, lasers, et cetera , was made possible by the great advances in physics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus, a person with training in physics can contribute to almost any area of science or engineering.
Technology changes quickly and specific job skills can become obsolete in a few years.
However, the problem solving skills, the way of thinking, learned by studying physics will be the more valuable tool in the long run. See The American Institute of Physics for more information about careers in physics. During the summer of 2000, two Geneva students worked on the project Sparse matrix methods for the transverse lattice . This project will continue during the summer of 2001. We will be using one of the world's fastest computers, Blue Horizon .