Ask someone who just got their PhD a week ago anything.
>>8994644
Is the earth spherical or flat?
>>8994654
it's T H I C C
>>8994654
>Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that ends up causing it to basically rain gas while also having gas lakes
>The entire moon could easily fuel Earth with enough gasoline for several lifetimes
>You would need a ship to get there; presumably will be running on gas
>You would need that vehicle that runs on gas to land on that moon, having a robot of some sort on board to collect samples and fly back (-170 degree atmosphere, no human could really set foot there)
>The entire moon will basically blow up the second the fire from the engine ignites upon leaving the moon, due to all of the gasoline in the atmosphere
>You would need a vehicle that runs on some separate form of fuel that also doesn't cause a fire to safely get there, collect the gas and leave
>If we had a separate source of fuel like that, there'd be no need to go on the first place
What a fucking tease
>>8993507
The gravity is really low you could probably use a cold gas thruster to get off the surface.
>>8993507
it would still be worth it
I don't understand how space and time are linked
Everyone always brings up the photon with light clock and traveling at the speed of light the photon will travel a longer distance which makes the clock tick slower but isn't that just an illusion? Time isn't mobing slower, your body doesn't depend on how long photons take to move.
>>8993341
Time isn't real
The thing to understand here is that time is a "real" thing. It's not an illusion, it's not a human invention. It's a discovered property just like distance or mass.
We can observe the physics of slower time, too! Imagine an unstable particle launched from the sun at a really high speed. In fact, this speed is so fast that the particle experiences half the time that a stationary observer experiences. If the particle has a half life of 1 second, and 500 particles are launched from the sun at a detector, and the stationary observer sees the particles hit the detector 2 seconds after being launched, how many particles will the detector detect?
The answer is 250. Even if we saw 2 seconds pass, the particles only saw one second pass, so they only reduce by 1 half.
>>8993482
and since photons are going at C they experience no time. from their perspective they are absorbed the moment they are created
I'm tired of wasting my time.
Rate my schedule.
+No sugars, no coffee, no lewds.
Starting tomorrow.
>>8992882
>Rate my schedule.
that's not a schedule
>>8992882
>Rate my schedule.
>>8992884
>cold shower
way to get memed
Is "smart but lazy" even possible?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Smale
A common brainlet excuse, not so common in reality though.
>>8992713
Possible, but 99% of the people who refer to themselves as smart but lazy are brainlets.
t. smart but lazy
Why does lightning look like trees?
Because they're made of electreecity.
>>8991750
trees are made of wood
>>8991754
wood floats
What are some humorous/obscure textbooks that /sci/ knows of? Here's mine.
>>8989126
I took a course with this textbook as well. Was a discrete math course at UC Davis. Not gonna lie, it was stupidly easy and the final amounted to some logic puzzles (the tower of alexandria was one of them)
>>8989126
This thread is for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Tips!
>give context
>describe your thought process if you're stuck
>try wolframalpha.com and stackexchange.com
>How To Ask Questions The Smart Way: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Previous thread: >>8976643
what's the most valuable degree? theoretical physics?
https://www.tcd.ie/courses/undergraduate/faculty/#F02
What's the best text to learn measure theory? I have a copy of Folland
I don't know if this is relevant here, but this is a medicine related question.
Last year around this time I got tested for about a million allergens since I had, for the first time in my life, a runny nose and itching eyes for no reason.
The tests came up with nothing, and it quickly went away.
Now, I'm experiencing the same damn thing. Anybody have any idea what it could be?
Will you get augmentations when it becomes possible?
Examples:
>Bionic eyes that can see in the dark.
>Super strong bionic arm that can bench press 500 lb.
>Photographic memory implants.
>>8989147
>Bionic eyes that can see in the dark.
Hmmm.... surgery or flashlight?
>Super strong bionic arm that can bench press 500 lb.
Why would you need to bench press 500 lbs? It's not like you will impress anyone since you didn't get it done with hard work in the gym.
>Photographic memory implants.
Hmmm.... surgery or google glass?
>>8989160
Surgery. The augmentation is fused with your cells.
>>8989161
>The augmentation is fused with your cells.
And why is that good? You can either have external technology which can always be easily gotten rid of and replaced with better technology, or get surgery every year. Being implanted in your body is almost always unnecessary.
Describe the worst professor you ever had.
you wouldn't believe it anyway
>High School Biology
Teacher was unfuckingbelievably left wing biased. She had fucking "wage gap" related signs and shit plastered all over her classroom. Single strictest teacher I've ever seen, wasn't strict as in actual learning, she just hated children. Would spend multiple class periods talking about how great her environmental work is. One of her assignments was literally to go outside and pick up garbage and another was to go into the desert to gather plants and spend weeks drying and pressing them, except if it was a non-native plant she'd toss it out and you had no way of knowing if the plant was native or not. She spent huge amounts of time shilling her ecology class and made impressionable kids watch super biased vegetarian/environmentalist shit. She was also the sex ed teacher and required everyone to have fake gay sex for an aids demonstration, I backed out and I was the only one with aids because she gave me the aids cup. I went from fucking hardcore die hard democrat to full 1488 in one fucking school year thanks to her.
>High School Pottery
Unironically named Mr. Waddles, looked like a fucking lanky pug. Outright hated students, was full of arbitrary rules that made zero fucking sense. Once accused me of cheating because I studied for a test and got all the answers right. He spoke entirely in catchphrases and would unironically start rapping in class. At that point I just stopped caring so I made all my clay into dinosaurs, which he threw away and started sitting next to the door because he would wait 30 seconds to let everyone out after the bell rang without fail. He'd send me into a nearby teacher's class who was really fucking cool. Finally got to switch out after he gave me a referral for eating beef jerky in class. I know it sounds like I was being a little shit but this was just after the biology teacher and I was just couldn't deal with that shit for another year.
Post high school has been completely fine, just have to check on the teacher
>>8975939
I wish I was based enough to fart in front of students.
Is it possible to cure balding with CRISPR?
(Are you balding? Have you accepted it?)
That would be hilarious if the last balding, fat, low IQ people are Gen Z, and they have to live like lepers among the ubermenschen.
>>8997495
>Is it possible to cure balding with CRISPR?
CRISPR and transplants, yes.
>(Are you balding?
Yes, starting to.
> Have you accepted it?)
No.
>>8997495
Just save up for a transplant
>photons have momentum despite having no mass
Is this just another case of certified Dark Physicsâ„¢?
>>8997472
Pretty much. The established formula was [math] p = mv [/math] and as m=0 then naturally p=0 (if you know your math) but having everything solved means no grant money, nor no popsci money. Therefore physicists now have to invent some kind of special case around everything to still make money.
It is pretty sad if you ask me. Physics is literally useless nowadays. Just a bunch of scam artists.
>>8997481
p/m=v
For limit m ->0, v goes to infinity.
Speed of light btfo
what if photons have negligible but nonzero mass?
>releases a theory that just uses Lorentz's tranformations.
What was exactly his contribution to science?
>>8997456
pointing out the obvious
something you people seem to struggle with seeing
>>8997456
Einstein is a Fraud & Plagiarist.
Special Relativity was discovered/created by Lorentz & Poincaré
General Relativity was discovered/created by Carl F. Gauss, Bernhard Riemann & Ernst Mach.
Einstein just Plagiarized/Copied from them.
Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
(((Einstein)))
If you're on a plane that's about to crash and you jump from the door 10 meters or within the threshold distance of jumping without dying, would you die?
>>8997283
If you are travelling at 200km/h down and jump up at 5km/h you are still going down at 195km/h
>>8997286
If only the people in that tower in London had seen this they might have survived
I finally got around to watching the new Bill Nye show on Netflix.
Is it me or has science really changed since we were kids? I remember all the science Bill Nye explained on Bill Nye the Science Guy and back then he said there were only 2 genders. It's interesting to hear the new science of gender. I had no idea there had been so much progress in that field in such a short amount of time. And now its officially settled that gender is a spectrum. Totally different from when I was a kid! I love scientific progress.
>>8996918
Im not arguing that the new show is a shill show. But the idea of gender being a spectrum has been around for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
this is the best scientific explanation for it.
>>8996918
>I finally got around to watching the new Bill Nye show on Netflix.
No, no you didn't. You are a /pol/tard angry that your only discussion topic already died out.
It's time for you to go back.
>>8996927
gender identity being a large part learned makes sense, but why do people describe personality differences as "gender identities". seems like it would just confuse young people and lead to depression of the kind referenced in that wikipedia article.