Very true. Where I did my undergrad the same was true for GR. It was taught, alternating between astrophysicists and theoretical physicists, year after year. You basically had to pick the year that was good for you.

Quantum as in "solve the Schrödinger equation for an electron in an infinitely deep potential well" etc., I found rather useless. But decent (sub-) atomic physics is quite necessary, I think. Radiative transfer is all about that, after all.

Yeah, I remember the Voorwerpjes, too!
Btw, it's a pretty hard pick which of those two images is most awesome.

Ah! The paper and object that made many astronomers attempt some Dutch! Thanks to Hanny van Arkel and the somewhat absurd translation of the word object (by someone else)! Fun times :)

Reassembled! A.k.a. the "before" picture I forgot to take.

!aj eiD

Err demmit. Next one is on my daughter's birthday....

Bummed that I only found out last Monday and couldn't make it to yesterday's Amsterdam gathering. Hopefull,y I can soon join one.

Yes. A PhD trajectory would cost me 296k. Unless the candidate is a "basisarts", then it's 387k. Zero other responsibilities or activities.

Indeed. CAO....

I know how it works. I'm just saying that the question in the example isn't all that surprising, nor does it actually illustrate the use of the & operator.