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Today ShaWei asked me a good question, "It costs you so much making this website, does it make money?"
My answer was, "If it could make money, I wouldn't be here studying physics."
Jihao asked another good question, "You study physics not for money, right?"
I said without thinking, "I study physics for money."
Now consider these questions again. For the 1st one, the advertisements on the website can make a little money, but that's like 5th-order small amount compared to my income, so it's totally negligible.
For the 2nd question, speaking more accurately, I study physics for living. I wanted economic independence and human rights, which I wrote in GYPP. Now I get them through physics. At least, I can buy a computer to make the website and purchase the web hosting service using my own money by studying physics. However, I can't even buy a computer by solely making websites. That's kind of ironic.
I find none of Jihao, Wendong, Shawei and I intrinsically love physics, at least now, although we wrote such kind of thing in our personal statements of our graduate applications. Last Halloween at the ARC, I kiddingly said, "Physics keeps a person young." Instantly they all disagreed. Wendong said that physics makes a person older.
However, we have the potential to study physics well. Once Jihao told me that he would be nervous if he had been solving a physics problem not successfully. He would keep thinking about that problem. So would I. I would keep thinking while walking or eating or doing other stuff. Sometimes I would even ignore people around me, although it is really bad. Anyway, we are kind of "study-physics-materials," although we don't intrinsically love physics. Perhaps years later, some of us would fall in love with physics. Who knows.
