Quote From phdbug:
Technically it may be physically possible to write 100000 words in 3 months. I absolutely stand by the fact that it is impossible to do "creative, original, indepth intellectual work" in 1 year. Because if it is, we all are lazybones out here to say the least! 8-).
A phd by publication is another issue altogether, a centennial professor I know did it in 4 months.
Yes, you are right, our work is based on the classical theory including the first-principles of physics. But i think nobody's job in physics get out of the basics, actually i still read the papers published 60 years ago. Nothing is completely new or original, coz the theory is classic. It's hard to invent innovative theory or have the experimental work in lab into real practice. Most PhD's work aims to contribute a little part to the research in the field in the long run. But one should be aware that your work could proved to be totally worthless in the near or distant future. But why do we still do that, coz even the failure results are instructive.
So for my part, i strongly believe that dont expect too much originality and dont eye too high. keep down to the laborious experimental work and collect more results, among them you will dig out something valuable. Intellectual work is not always connected with a genius idea or plan, most of the time, it's a matter of repeated work.
