Are you smarter than me?

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Michael-5 said:

bananaking21 said:

Michael-5 said:

I know, but Rocket Science is one of the easiest fields to get a PhD in that involve Physics. I never understood that figure of speech.

Most work is done in Physical Chemistry now, constructing nanotube, graphite chips for computers, exciting electrons into conduction bands for solar cells. We should say "Smart then a Phys Chemist."

I guess that doesn't sound as good......well I got my degree in Astrophysics, so that sounds pretty smug LOL

how about i just say smarter then sheldon cooper then?

I was going to explain why Sheldon Cooper isn't as smart as the show makes him out to be (a lot of the concepts he explains, and forumlas derived are undergraduate level, and basic in nature), but....

It's better then saying a rocket scientist.

I'd rather go with "smart then steven hawking." or Einstein. Einstein had a brain deformity, the gap between his left and right hemisphere were closer then they should have been, so he actually did think faster then most people.

My guess is that the expression was coined back when space travel was something new, when it captured the imagination of the average joe. Back then, someone who would be able to build a vessel that transported humans in space would be regarded as incredibly smart.