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Dude! I’ve been watching you since I was a toddler! Now I’m 98 years old and about to get buried tomorrow! So excited about your hard work!

This has got to be the most elaborate excuse I've seen someone make to avoid doing String Theory videos. Frankly, despicable!

I feel like a really proud dad watching his son achieve all these accomplishments since watching Andrew in undergrad. Keep it up my dude! We are all rooting for you!

Dude, I have been watching your videos since I was in high school. Now I am an electrical engineer and it is so exciting to see you go far ahead. Your videos do inspire me to take up physics again!!! We are all proud of you dude!! Keep on enjoying your journey!!!

500 :/ I’m happy to see all the questions you asked when you were little was just grooming you for your incredible journey! Good job, Andrew! ~ love, Mom 💕

From someone who’s seen your videos since you were in undergrad, we are all really proud.

Been watching you since you were in undergrad. I was a highschool student then. Now I’m graduating next summer with a degree in Physics and Math, hoping to study Physics in grad school just like you. You’ve been a huge inspiration to me for the last half decade. Thanks. Proud of you🙏🏼

Doing Quantum Chromodynamics always gets the reaction of “Yes, I study Physics” from other non-QCD physicists. As a senior undergrad, QCD has been my lvl 100 mission as a level 10 character.

Your comment on not knowing what work with your degree will look like is so nice to hear. I finished my undergrad during covid, and just started my masters in experimental astroparticle physics. When I was applying there was so much hesitation because I didn't know if I would enjoy this but getting to actually do in person research for once, and going to conferences has definitely been worth it!

Knowing what you don't know is a real skill, Andrew. That is why they were impressed.

Gotta be one of the smoothest transitions to sponsored part.

I went from 10th grade to 2nd year on my bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering watching your videos Andrew. You literally kept my interest in physics alive all through the years! Looking forward to growing academically and professionally along side you man. Good luck and Godspeed to both of us💖💖

Congrats on the LANL internship! I'm a physicist just down the road at SNL. Since we're mostly an engineering lab, I'm always jealous when I see other physicists working in their native habitat

Congrats! Hope you have a great time working at the lab! As I'm starting to learn QFT now, I'd be happy to see any QFT videos you put out... but at the same time QFT seems like one of the largest "sub-areas" from physics I've ever seen, where you need to know lots of prerequisites from all over the place before you can even start. So it's definitely a big undertaking.

Love these! So glad to have been watching your progress throughout the years! You also explain concepts wonderfully. I’m an MBA but have always been interested in your videos as I love calculus and physics. I’ve learned a lot from you and from my own personal studies. Thank you so much!!

so proud of my physics boy right there, so nice to see you get to this point, been following you through undergraduate! good luck with everything man

It's so great to hear of your stay at LANL and to see you grow as a physicist. I remember watching the videos of your final years of undergrad when I was on my first years and now I'm on my 2nd year of PhD in physics. Congrats Andrew!! Keep up the good work!

The Pool-equipment on the wall is just Adrew bringing his Particle-Collision job home xD

What I got from this video as an undergrad is that this is the equivalent of not considering air resistance and friction.

I've loosely followed your journey -- I'm so proud of you :). Keep it up and get your Phd :). We are all rooting for you! I know it can seem overwhelming sometimes, but I promise you, it's worth it.

Congrats on the internship! This was a big year for me too, I finally decided to quit my old job and start a PhD in physics. Your videos over the years were part of what inspired me to take the leap. So thanks, and best of luck with the rest of your degree!

Congrats man! I’ve been watching you since I was in college; now I’m taking my first QFT course in grad school. You’ve been an inspiration and I’m glad to see how far you’ve come. I’m especially excited to see what comes next!

You are honestly my inspiration. I have watched your videos since I was a sophomore in high school and now I writing this from my first conference as a sophomore in college. These videos make me so excited for grad school and I hope one day I’ll meet you in my journey in theoretical quantum physics.

Congratulations! Reading about QFT got me back into school after a zillion years! Good to see you videoing again!

Watching your videos is so surreal. I started watching you in undergrad and now I am a first year Physics PhD student. Proud of you!

Glad to see you back!

Again, as a Medical student have no idea what he was talking about but it sounded cool

Really interesting information to share on the realms of Nuclear Physics. Wishing you the best in your next part of your Physics journey!

I LOVE to see some TMD PDFs making their way to youtube, even if I don't really know the difference between TMD collinear and current fragmentation regions. anyways very happy to see you thriving!

Los Alamos! That is awesome, congrats man!

Just a slightly less than formal thank you for swapping from mono to stereo halfway through, I thought I would have to listen to your voice coming into only my left ear for the whole thing, haha.

Your journey through the Academia has been really interesting to follow since I started as an undergrad about the same time as you did! Right now, things have become even more relevant, since I recently started my PhD project on lattice computations of GMDs and TMDs. Even though we work at the different edges of the perturbative regime, I am looking forward to hearing about your results and experiences! Also, do not be alarmed if you meet a fan at a conference haha!

Awesome stuff, Andrew, congrats. I've said it a few times, but thank you for inspiring me to go into physics and astronomy. I'm applying to grad school this semester and I appreciate all the content you've made over the years. It's gotten me through some tough moments to be honest. It's crazy I'm now at the spot you were when you first started this channel. Keep it up! We appreciate everything you've shared.

I have watched your videos since I was 15, and it has been exceptionally great to monitor your journey to see what I can become in another 4ish years.

and i thought the calculus and differential equations exams were hard in my computer science thing. i have no clue how to even read these formulas, but it's probably a matter of knowing the notation. good luck on your new endeavors! sounds really cool and i'm glad someone at your university noticed your enthusiasm.

I miss your regular uploads but I can only imagine how busy a PhD is. Hope you're doing well, the PhD is going smoothly, and we'll be looking forward to seeing you again when you can upload.

I've been watching your videos since I was a physics Freshman, here I am now, finishing undergrad and entering a quantum field theory and gravitation group. You were a great inspiration into this, Andrew!

Good luck, Andrew!

So excited for your QFT series, when you have time for it!

Your passion really inspired me to follow my dream and start my degree. Now I am in my last year of undergrad :D thanks for inspiring us all

Glad you’re doing well, Andrew!

It's always a delight to see Andrew's videos! Go Nail the Research!!

Ive been watching your videos since you were in undergrad and since Ive been in highschool, now I am in my third year of physics/computer science, youve always been an inspiration to me and you were my primary inspiration to pursue physics in university. This is so awesome to hear

Im a high school student and I just wanna say that I love your videos they're very inspiring and motivating. They make me look forward to my college career and beyond! Keep it up dude, congrats on your new position!

I love watching your videos because I can see how far I've come in physics and how I still have so far to go. Your videos helped me decide to major in physics and now I'm watching this video in the lab on my lunch break. 3 years ago I would have pretended to understand everything you said in this video but now I know enough to admit I don't understand everything. Good luck with the rest of your internship!

Good luck in LANL! Hope for new videos from that place with quarks :)

You're litterally living what I wanna do, keep it up! Also looking foward for you to explain QFT to my smooth brain.

It's nice to see another person going through the process. It helps me reflect and see the progress I've made rather than feeling the imposter syndrome. I very much appreciate your videos :)

Hey Andrew, big congratulations on the achievement! I'm a fellow PhD student in theoretical cosmology, same year as you, and it has been a pleasure to follow and relate to you over the last years. I never made a thorough dig into QFT, and with your dissemination skills, I would love to follow a QFT series from you.

Dude!!! I'm so glad our world has people like you Andrew...what a transformation you've made!!!!🍺👍

The first two and a half minutes of this went straight over my head. Until you hit the “I ask dumb questions” part and then I suddenly associated strongly with the content.

Congrats! Been a while since I've seen your videos show up on my feed, but I'm glad you're still pursuing particle physics! Hope that LANL provides for you more useful insights into your research and that you gain a lot from it.

Highschool to here been great watching you. Was even more of a surprise when you moved to NMSU in my home state, and now LANL where I went to till highschool. Still make me wanna do more math and physics all the time, despite an avoidance of others wanting to in my field. I'd nerd out with ya if you're ever in the Abq area.

I'm a biology major in my senior year. I did not understand a word you said but you looked so passionate that I still enjoyed the video! I literally have no idea how I want to follow up my studies (and I have to choose something fast). Watching you makes me want to reroute my career (for practical reasons, I'm prob not gonna do that, but maybe as a personal interest in the long future). There is this whole world of knowledge in physics that I'm not privy to and that frustrates me.

Hey Andrew, I've never commented on a video before but I wanted to thank you for making all your vids and vlogs over the years. I was doing my undergrad in physics and unsure about what I wanted to do after my bachelor's. That's when I stumbled upon your graduate school vlogs and joke videos and really found comfort in your style of content and what to expect in graduate school as well. I'm now doing my master's in atomic physics and I'm heading to CERN in a few months do do my research about the structure of antimatter which has always been a personal dream, and I can genuinely say that you played a huge role in getting me here, so thanks :)

So cool to see you grow over time! Really love this information you are giving out. Cant wait to hear more about your journey.

Happy you're feeling sparky! Good luck with your research.

been watching you since I was in highschool and only dreamt about studying physics. now I have a medical physics bachelor degree and enrolled for a biophysics master program, hopefully a phD too. Your continous passion for studying physics over the years definitely inspired and motivated me, even when I wanted to give up because some tired professors really have a way of taking all the magic out of physics. So, thanks! ❤️

I stopped pursuing academia after an MS in physics so I really appreciate living vicariously through you! Thanks for sharing!

big things are in store for you man, BIG KUDOS!

I'm currently a senior physics major going through the grad school aplication process, and seeing your journey as a physics student up to this point has been super helpful and inspiring to me. Thanks!

It's always cool to see what you're up to as someone who's a few years ahead of me in this journey! My partner saw you on the screen and laughed. He said you're looking a lot better than last time he saw you, so you must be past that 3rd year of phd. Apparently that's when everyone has a hard time in science and starts looking a little rough. Must be a comps thing ig

I had a couple friends who worked/visited at LANL, heard nothing but good things. Best of luck, been following you for years!

Way above my head! Congrats though mate that is awesome news

I really like the details you mentioned in this video, you are swimming in the qft world, it is definitely difficult, may Allah help you with your phd, thank you my man, i enjoyed this video a lot !

been watching you since the end of middle school (or what would be start of highschool in the US) and have just started my intigrated masters programe with the university of nottingham in the uk, your a big inspiration

Hey Andrew, been watching your videos since I was in high school and you are one of the reasons I went into STEM. I just got accepted into a math PhD program last year specializing in dynamical systems. Currently in my first semester and about to get my second publication, and I want you to know that people like you inspire so many. Great to hear about LANL and hope to hear more good news in the future!

That transition was chef's kiss. LoL

I’ve recently gotten strong enough in latex that I can start to use it for tests and exams. Every time I see it out in the wild it makes me so happy!

Was going to chill the rest of this otherwise calm saturday night, but after watching this I got the motivation I needed to go finish my homework set on quantum mechanics. Thanks dad.

I'm over here dying in my first year physics class acting like I understood even the slightest bit of what you said. Great video tho.

Andrew Dotson at LANL: I'm the SCETman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)

I work up at LANL as a Radiation control tech. I'm glad you enjoyed the research you got to do!

Congratulations Andrew! looking forward to the QFT series though i know full well i won't understand a thing at least until I finish math methods 3 in my year 4. But here I am struggling with partial derivatives in MM 1 😂. Anyways, thanks for inspiring me to be confident in my decision to go into physics, looking at how much you are enjoying your works keeps me going as well.

damn no idea how similar our projects are... i was assigned the internal structure (PDF, TMD, GPD) of vector meson with bethe-salpeter equation

No f-ing idea what you said the entire video but great to see an update! I'm a senior in Computer Science in Mexico and I'm currently applying for my Masters in Computer Science in the US! This video is exactly what I needed, exactly when I needed it!

Wow, the same day I'm starting to study Chiral PT (my first time with EFT) you upload this video. So cool!

Impressive the physics journey that you have taken and even more exciting to see where you are going!!! I will keep watching your awesome content.

9:30 “How about I figure out how to detonate your reality remotely” absolutely killed me 😂😂

That ad segway was a crime. Please do it more.

My right ear is jealous from my left ear

Man time flies I started watching you when we were both in undergrad. I ended up not getting a phD like I planned but kept learning Python/DataScience glad you stuck with it.

Keep it up Andrew! Your channel helped me decide on pursuing physics, and just last week I got accepted to a uni Im very happy with to start my undergrad in physics next fall. Good luck with everything in the future and thank you :)

Congrats Andrew! Hope everything goes well!

I actually thought of Jens when you went for the anime 😂. Congratulations on pulling off thoughtfully asking questions at a conference. Not always easy to pull off.

CONGRATS ON THE SPARK!!!! (fellow theoretician from ecology)

Dang andrew congrats. Getting to do work and research at a place like los alamos is really cool. Asking questions is really important and I like that this is where this started from your TMD

Man it had been a long time since I last pretended to understand complex shit, its nice to feel smart again while I procrastinate.

I’m getting into theoretical cosmology now and in group meetings! I was an observational astrophysicist, but always wanted to try theoretical.

Congratulations! You’ve worked hard to get here! They were probably exited to have someone who isn’t afraid to ask “stupid” questions. Los Alamos, that will be a trip!

please do the QFT series man, its becoming ever more relevant in the condensed matter world

13,034,431 experience in physics. Need to buy a cape now

Congratulations! I recall hanging out with the Sandía and Los Alamos teams at the 1st National Science Bowl in '91 (I was on the Pacific NW Labs team). In the 90s I managed to score an interview at Berkeley Lab, but they wanted more experience (sys admin position, and me just some bloke with a BS in Astrophysics). It was a great experience getting to sit in a Cray and all, but I'd have loved being involved with their laser project. The Gemini Observatories in Hilo were a similar story. The TRACE project as well. These are tight markets, so I'm very glad to hear you were invited to intern. Still debating a re-do of physics as a post-retirement project, or jump ship to math or my easy route of CS (likely CS combo with either, since CAS system design is a draw). Gotta justify all those books that I keep buying every time Springer has a sale going on... ;)

I am a junior in high school and your videos have made me want to do physics even more than I already do, so thank you.

As a fellow PhD student at NMSU, I am proud of you.

Been following you since you were in undergrad this is amazing, I couldn't hack it as a physics PHD student so i mastered out as a engineering student but you always brighten up my day

Wow, first of all big congratulations Andrew, I’ve been watching you for a few years now and I’m so happy and proud to see the incredible progress you’ve made in your career. You’re a brilliant person and I can’t wait to see all of the wonderful contributions that I know you will make to the world in the upcoming years. You deserve all of the success in the world, I know you’ve been working extremely hard for it. I’m an undergrad in engineering physics and this video has really shown me how stupid and dumb I am. I hope you end up doing your course on QFT because I and so many others will love to learn from you, even though I probably will not understand 99% of what you say. I will make sure to ask questions in the comments so I’m sorry in advance lol. Keep on doing your thing and keep on inspiring people to achieve things that they never thought they were capable of ❤

I'm an engineer by trade, but my first love has always been physics. I have been using your videos for motivation to stay with it in my physics major. The way you talk about it makes me excited to learn!

I think the opportunity to be an intern at a national lab is pretty cool. I don't really know how an internship is supposed to work (Franky I'm not sure there's consensus) but getting to see the grown-ups work has to be encouraging. If you actually get an opportunity to be a contributors in some way that's even better.