Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Well, what you do want to do with your mad science? Chemical engineering, for instance, is the "blow stuff up" field. Possibly structural engineering as well if you want to be incredibly efficient at it.
Is blowing things up with chemical explosives really what a mad scientist wants to be doing. It just seems so... petty, and small scope. Unless you're building some sort of doomsday device (which would be more of a physics project) merely "blowing stuff up" is far too lacking ambition IMO.

If you do want to be a mad chemical scientist, I would think biological/medical chemistry would be a better route. For drugging and mind-controlling the population, or creating mutants, or super-soldiers. Or turning the population into mind-controlled mutant super-soldiers.