# Its been three years and ten months... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701 "2006-07-31T13:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/1 "2006-07-31T13:11:27Z")
…But, I got there in the end. This morning, I finally submited my PhD thesis. Now I just need to get through the defence. 🙂😃😛🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/2 "2006-07-31T13:12:43Z")
🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/3 "2006-07-31T13:21:36Z")
:d ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/4 "2006-07-31T13:22:43Z")
Errr, I was aiming for the 😃 smiley and somehow messed up. 😃 Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/5 "2006-07-31T13:39:12Z")
Wow. Congratulations! I’m sooooo jealous. I’m just hoping to make it through orals okay. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/6 "2006-07-31T13:47:23Z")
and another congratulations! Can I ask what the topic is? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/7 "2006-07-31T14:50:15Z")
Many, many congratulations. And you know you’ll breeze through the defense – you’re just fishing for compliments 😛 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/8 "2006-07-31T15:07:36Z")
Awesome! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/9 "2006-07-31T15:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Can I ask what the topic is? [/QUOTE] Well, the title’s “X-ray and radio interactions in galaxy groups and clusters.” What I actually work on is the interaction between outflows from super-massive black holes that are hosted by big galaxies (that are best studied in the radio waveband), and the hot gas that surrounds the galaxies in the groups that the galaxies live in (which is best studied in the X-ray). Thing is, there’s a major problem in our understanding at the moment, known as the “cooling flow problem”, where the gas between the galaxies should be really cold, because the time it would take for the gas to radiate away all its energy is shorter than the age of the universe, but we don’t see any really cold gas. Instead we see a lot of the gas as hot gas, so we think that something must be preventing the gas from cooling. We think that its the super massive black holes that are responsible, but finding reliable evidence for this is quite difficult. And well, that’s what my thesis deals with. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/10 "2006-07-31T15:23:48Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Well, the title’s “X-ray and radio interactions in galaxy groups and clusters.” What I actually work on is the interaction between outflows from super-massive black holes that are hosted by big galaxies (that are best studied in the radio waveband), and the hot gas that surrounds the galaxies in the groups that the galaxies live in (which is best studied in the X-ray). Thing is, there’s a major problem in our understanding at the moment, known as the “cooling flow problem”, where the gas between the galaxies should be really cold, because the time it would take for the gas to radiate away all its energy is shorter than the age of the universe, but we don’t see any really cold gas. Instead we see a lot of the gas as hot gas, so we think that something must be preventing the gas from cooling. We think that its the super massive black holes that are responsible, but finding reliable evidence for this is quite difficult. And well, that’s what my thesis deals with. [/QUOTE] Then maybe you could help [these](http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMGM6BUQPE_index_0.html) guys out, they seem to be missing a few black holes. And, a very hearty congrats to on the thesis, and the best of luck with the defence! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/11 "2006-07-31T15:44:17Z")
Good job…and in less than four years which is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/12 "2006-07-31T16:47:25Z")
Congrats, **Angua**! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/13 "2006-07-31T17:21:19Z")
Wow, that’s fast. Congrats. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/14 "2006-07-31T17:30:32Z")
Congratulations! My husband just finished his Master’s thesis - he submitted it for printing last week. It’s DONE! I can only imagine how hard you must have worked, considering how hard he did! I’m not sure I’d have the patience. ---
**Author:** ![Della](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@Della](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Della)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/15 "2006-08-01T01:49:46Z")
Congratulations! 😃 It’s always good to hear on someone actually handing in a thesis. It’s proof to the rest of us that people to actually escape from grad school 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Della](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@Della](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Della)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/16 "2006-08-01T01:51:07Z")
And if I actually previewed I would have caught the 20 grammatical errors in those few sentences. Sigh… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/17 "2006-08-01T02:10:53Z")
Excellent!!! Congratulations, **Angua**! GT ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/18 "2006-08-01T02:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Well, the title’s “X-ray and radio interactions in galaxy groups and clusters.” [/QUOTE] Oh, sure, take the _easy_ one… 😉 Besides, everyone knows that those interstellar gases are heated from the interference caused by the indiscriminate use of high warp in low warp zones. Seriously, congrats on wrapping up your thesis…_doc_. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/19 "2006-08-01T06:18:46Z")
Thanks guys. 🙂 I’m not quite Doc Angua yet, I have a defence to get through, which is going to be scheduled for either the third week of August or the first week of September, after which, I’l unofficially be Doc. I’ll probably have some corrections to do, and then, only in December, once I graduate, will I really be Dr. But, I’m almost there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701/20 "2006-08-01T07:11:15Z")
Grats, **Angua**! Nice to know there are graduate advisors out there who don’t insist in keeping their grads for 11 years (like mine wanted to). I’ve always been envious of people who get to play with stars… _looks wistfully out the window_ (no, serious, I used to devour astronomy books like they were candy) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-three-years-and-ten-months/366701.md?page=2)