If they take high school physics they do. I don't because physics is not my strong point.
Thanks, that's a good datapoint. Auroral physics is not something that we're taught here in the U.S., even in honors high school physics classes. Perhaps physics' appeal is always framed in the human experience. In the case of high latitude living, the science describing the auroral physics is a curiosity that can help drive research in plasma physics. Sweden is a powerhouse of plasma physics and spaceweather forecasting capabilities, in fact. I work with a guy who lived in Kiruna, and he told me that it hurt to breathe the outside air for 5/8ths of the year. That was a no-go for any prospect of going over there. Also, the love of my life has a Swedish surname, appears Swedish in many ways, and is somewhere between 25-50% Swedish, genetically.
Hahah, yes kiruna is extremely cold. it does not (usually) get that cold here. It has actually been warmer in Sweden these last two winters. Don't let the wheather stop you from being recruited to fill in the fact that our population replacement rate is to low. (That is why immigrattion is wonderful for Sweden, otherwise we would have no-one to work and pay taxes in like 5 years.) But I love the fact that it can potentially snow two feet - it means that if you have tiny small humans they can jump around and play and everything and land softly. (Me and a childhood friend who has a lovely supportive and very protective mom (I actually work togther with her at the daycare-center right now.) who would have had a heart-attack if she knew it was jumping of a like 5 feet high roof into the snow. It was wonderful) I feel similarly about Chemistry, I like studying theology and philosophy but at some point you want to KNOW and PROVE things.
In my corner of Texas, we'll have snow in the forecast about once a year. Everyone loses their minds, but only one year out of two will it actually snow. Only one year out of five will it actually stick on the ground. I love snowboarding, but I've never lived somewhere that it snows, so I don't know how that'd go. Need my sunny days. I knew I wanted to be a physicist when the answers to all of my "why"s were technically knowable, and the only reason I couldn't grasp them was because of a shortcoming on my end. Curiosity killed the cat, but is a huge driver of scientists.I feel similarly about Chemistry, I like studying theology and philosophy but at some point you want to KNOW and PROVE things.