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Originally Posted by Subfallen
As in, a biological system is a harder thing for physicists to model than an atom?
True, but biologists don't stand a chance of modeling either...
I have to agree. While I stand firmly behind the biologists in
the Great War, it's much harder to become a credentialed physicist than a credentialed biologist. Also, the average physicist is much smarter than the average biologist.
I don't think this implies that there are no brilliant biologists (and I don't think crazy outliers like Ed Witten are necessarily fair to invoke here, especially given that physicists must work with math on a regular basis while biologists generally don't, making them more likely to win Fields medals regardless of their intelligence). But in general, physicists > biologists.