We could do the following experiment on Earth: left weights for an hour a day, but for the other 23 hours have your arms float weightlessly in water, not even supporting themselves. Who thinks this is a way to build muscle?
@GeorgeSmyridis Engineers are closer aligned to the needs of industry and as such I would probably rate their career prospects better. As a physicist you may end up taking whatever job you can get as there is very little physics-y jobs in the industry, but with an engineering degree in a given field, it should not be too hard to get employed in that field if that's what you enjoy.
@Floris Concerning physics.stackexchange.com/a/98401/520. That overstatement seems to be from my original post, and you are certainly right about it.
That said, I believe I wrote the original version answer in a fit of pique about the pure number of people who were asking stupid questions about trivially small effects while not paying any attention to much larger issues. and otherwise paying no attention to issues of scale and I just wanted to get a basic answer in place and take no credit or responsibility for it. It was never meant to be authoritative.
It's current condition is down to that pedantic annoyance user12whateverthehellhisstringofdigitsis. I did not approve of and do not care for his edits and take no responsibility for the answer. Sorry.
