Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.