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Re:Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test by ISL on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:05PM (#23983169)
It takes a decade or more of continuous professional effort (treating successful undergraduates as professionals) and mentorship to become conversant.

Some of it is acumen, some is community, and a lot of it is time.

People can easily ask the same of experts in other technical fields and arts.

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Re:Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test by blueprint on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:54AM (#23983625)
It takes 10 years of post-undergrad professional or academic work to become "conversant" in physics? Isn't that the undergrad GR and supporting math courses, themselves, generally? Or are you referring to a level of keeping up with the latest modern theory?
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Re:Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test by ISL on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:06AM (#23983660)
I meant the combined study of undergraduate and graduate theoretical physics, to be conversant at the level of the arXiv preprint.
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