>>12196559There was a time when sciences weren't mature enough to need an entire undergrad and graduate suite just to be able to tackle the state of the art. However, advancements in methods, education, etc., have changed that, so you really do need a graduate degree for
1) people to take you seriously
2) to learn how to talk to other researchers
3) to actually face active research and the body of existing work
You don't know how many people who think they can do it alone don't realize a) how shit they are and b) how small their scope of knowledge of active research actually is. Anyway
>I'm pursuing CS I mean, CS (distinct from software engineering and programming) is a scientific and mathematical field of academic inquiry. What's stopping you from doing a PhD in CS and tackling problems in science? Quantum information researchers in CS study with condensed matter theorists in hamiltonian complexity, with high energy theorists in holography and the firewall problem, and with people all around in Ising model results in statistical mechanics. Bioinformatics speaks for itself. Computational group theory helps a lot with chemistry, which is increasingly more and more about computer experiments. On the side of its won investigation, CS is a mathematical investigation into computation, constructivity, classic mathematical logic and proof systems, and complexity. If you can think of a math subfield that has more than 15 years of study on it, you can likely find a CS topic related to it. Again, what's stopping you from getting a grad degree in CS and then studying what you want?
