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I have a physics degree. I think an interesting thing about physics education is that it teaches resourcefulness and opportunism. Physics "owns" relatively few techniques and technologies. It borrows from others, and combines things.

One of the reasons physicists like programming so much, is that it's the modern duct tape for putting disparate things together, and there's so much stuff out there to use.

Physicists are always among the earliest users of technologies -- vacuum tubes, transistors, and successive generations of computers. At my college, the earliest adopters of personal computers were all physics professors. The one exception was a humanities prof whose kid happened to be a physics major.