Archived threads in /sci/ - Science & Math - 658. page

>>8809394
I like to think that knowledge is like Dragon Ball, and I just want to get stronger.

Learning is the process of gaining a greater ability to manipulate your environment. You won't enjoy learning anything that you don't see or foresee getting use out of.

>>8809412
Right now, I'm seeing it like a car. Some people want to customize the car so it will do what they want it to. Other people are happy with using the stock model.

So are some people just forever discontent with the car they drive? Why is it good for people to forever be dissatisfied with their state of knowledge but bad for people to always want better cars?

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A different quote by Feynman

>>8809358
Damn man reading "we cant define anything precisely'' was so so fucking cringey.He probably even have no idea about what define word,conception,operator works for.He has just have an emotional state about all of the word like everyone.Damn.Those scientist and philosophrs are really bad at making an interpretation of information.Atheism has a faith dominant approach.So it lost its consistency at the beginning.

>>8809432
Could someone translate this for me? I have no idea what it's about.

sigma notation you insufferable meme spouting brainlet

>>8809339
>define "sum all primes to 2 million" as shitting on the white board
>please my primate ancestors

>>8809339
>loop through all numbers 1 to 2 mil
>loop inside first loop dividing number by previous numbers except 1
>if only divisible by 1, add number to sum vector
>sum all the numbers inside the sum vector
>????
>profit

come on dude, I'm not even a programmer and I can do dat shit

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>tfw you realize "imaginary time" is more real than real time

>>8808959
By definition, imaginary time is not real.

>>8808952
It's not though. The metric we assign it is.

>>8808638
Read philosophy.

>>8808707
>philosophy
I hate philosophy, it's a joke.
But I'm not gonna lie, if you really think into the material it'll definitely strain your brain

>>8808638
HAHAHAHA only 121 iq's you must feel like a total retard

123 iq's masterrace here

>>8808439
Ones that you pay for to do homework? Yes. It's just better to go ask a professor for help and to have your colleagues help you understand whatever it is that confuses you

Yes. Never met a student with a tutor who wasn't a fucking brainlet incapable of understanding anything.

t.tutor

>>8808439
I'd say yes but I'm a tutor so no.
Just pay up.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25314057

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v112/n1/full/bjc2014526a.html

>RESULTS:

>During a mean follow-up of 4 years, 27 cases of tumours of the central nervous system, 25 of leukaemia and 21 of lymphoma were diagnosed; 32% of them among children with PF. Specific patterns of CT exposures were observed according to PFs. Adjustment for PF reduced the excess risk estimates related to cumulative doses from CT scans. No significant excess risk was observed in relation to CT exposures.

>>8808146
They probably do, at a very low rate. It's a risk/benefit thing -- do you stand to gain more by detecting something with a scan than you risk by getting a dose of radiation?

That's why you don;t just randomly scan people who, for example, have no reason to think they have lung cancer, but have a bee in their bonnets about ti and want to get a scan they do not in fact need. Just to choose an example at random.

>>8808146
we have never shown them to

why would that be terrifying

we already have evidence there was life on earth before us (dinosaurs) that are nowhere to be seen, do dinosaurs scare you?

>>8807570
>what if we find evidence that there WAS life on another planet but the inhabitants are nowhere to be seen?
>would that be more terrifying then if they were outright hostile toward us


statistically speaking we are more likely to find remnants of life rather than actual life in the present since the proposed average length of a species is tiny compared to that of the universe.

so, i would argue that finding another living and sentient species (regardless if they are friendly neutral or hostile) would be significantly more terrifying and shocking than finding any sort of remnants of a past sentient being.

>>8807573

Plus, not much will change if we find evidence.

But if any amount of living being was found to exist RIGHT NOW it would upturn the entire fucking world.

your fields medal is in the mail

Rigorous constructions of the decimals make this nonsense obsolete. Most would put 0.999... as the decimal expansion of 1, where every real number has an unique infinite expansion. That is if it would otherwise be finite its followed by infinite 0's.

>>8810620
which specific part(s) of the proof is/are you calling nonsense

>I like science and math
fuck you, I love science and hate math. That is why I studied psychology.


kek.

>>8809776
Of course but /sci/ and skepticism can never coexist.

>>8809776
Don't be fooled, religion coexisting with anything approaching reason is a religion not taken far and not taken seriously. There is no such thing as a fundie who is right in the head.

>>>/reddit/

>>8809773
Without Brahe, Kepler would have fuck all to work with because he couldn't see for shit.

Galileo did shit for mathematical proofs of heliocentricism, and he got fucked by the Roman inquisition because he made fun of the pope.

But fuck being historically accurate right? Let's all just be brainless and circle jerk about the dude who found some moons on Jupiter and got whacked by the church for calling the pope a simpleton. That's fun.

>>8809801
>Galileo did shit for mathematical proofs of heliocentricism
I'm not an expert in the history of astronomy, but I was under the impression that Galileo made the final definitive proofs that basically split people between 'willing to listen' and 'not willing to listen.' Is that wrong?

source?

>>8809673
ur mum.

>>8809673

Asking for a source for something that you should already know doesn't make you intelligent either.

>>8809637
You made a typo, I'll fix it for you.
>Are you driven by pleasure, pleasure, or pleasure?

>>8809655
Some people want to be known after they died or were abused and need to feel in control
faggot

>>8809637
Aristotle said and its quite believable that its pleasure.
I had a long dream today.
One of my friend steals a big bag of money from train. He brings it to our hostel. Gladly only few of us are present in hostel at that time and rest are out for some sports. It is evening time and those friends would only come after partying at night. So we had long hours to distribute that stolen money. We went into backyard and near a window whose room's light are fucked up, we buried it deep.

4-5 years laters I come to visit that place. Our hostel is abandoned. This place is meant to be re-constructed but not so soon.I find two of my friend digging land they found me and got surprised. They are grown up now and responsible enough to kill me, and burry me if I try to argue with them about money. But my image among my friends is like "neutral" guy who is good with everyone and never demand;someone who see happiness in other and just want to be part of family of guys.
So they like me, pat me.I am not submissive. But soon I started digging some place further for some reason. And I found there was money in there. I remeber we never buried money in this place. And suddenly the guys who actually stole the money comes and greet us all. I quickly hide the place where I was digging.
Now the situation. Two friends are digging at same place but they are not finding money. The guy who stole the money has come and those two gonna ask about money. I am having a feeling that the guy who stole the money had buried money at the place where I started digging but none of us knew it. We are having fun talking about our hostel days but I know soon 3 of us will fight. I am the one who knows the secret. What shall I do. Two friends who are together they are not going to settle with third division. I wake up. Fuck man
Such a nice 4k movie ended without ending.
I wish......

>>8809478
An Introduction to An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory.

why would you have books under your belt. you're supposed to read them

>>8809489
never thought about it like that before desu

>>8809307
>why do we like this thing we need to survive?

>>8809307
How many predators hunt in the rain?

>>8809360
Yeah, reminds me of the morning I was enjoying a heavy downpour on the porch with a warm cup of tea until the lightening bolt hit about 50 yards away. Ahh, that smell of ozone with your ears ringing, tea all over yourself.