aaronash

Thank you all a lot! I benefit much from it.

As a friend on this forum suggests, I just want to " have the ability to read modern papers and perhaps make some contribution to the field with no monetary compensation". I graduated with bachelor of computer science, and with a master of finance after. However, I find my curiosity for the universe and life is not saturated with the job I am doing ( IT and finance stuff, which is simple compared to theoretical physics ). I want to understand the modern theoretical physics to understand this world. Says, for example, I am 26 now, will I be able to read and understand modern theoretical physics papers, through self-studying theoretical physics in my spare time? I can learn continuously, until my brain is too old to understand such complicated stuff. I fear that the brains of human beings function less well as I am getting old, as the majority of physics scientists achieve their breakthroughs when they are young. I am afraid I will become too old to understand the modern theoretical physics before I can understand them. Thank in advance for your help!