Physics & Computer Science

My dad and my physics teacher have (independently) advised me, as a CS major, to minor or double-major, in physics.

Do you think this will really help me get ahead? I want to end up doing something with computer/video games, not writing scientific software, so I think basic general college physics (required for CS major already) is enough.

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Oh.  Yeah, knowing the difference between a boson and a fermion is not going to be all that useful to a game programmer.  I agree.

However, many common devices and natural phenomena are fundamentally based in quantum mechanics, esp. anything involving optics or semiconductors.  Read Feynman's QED, he talks about this stuff in detail without hardly employing any math at all.  Very awesome book.

Basically I don't understand how you can say advanced physics does not apply to the real world, because that is against the very definition of physics!  TaoZenElegantWuLiUniverse "physics"  notwithstanding.