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Tomorrow I'm going to participate in an event related to particle physics. First some lectures, then some collision analysis activities, more lectures and finally we will be given the opportunity to ask any question to random physicists at CERN. What should I ask them?
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Is futa gay?
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What's the shape of the universe
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>>8756511
Have you ever been able to trap any atomic particals in stasis before?
Also, are traps gay?
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>tfw to intelligent do well on my exams because they only reward memorization and gimmicky problem solving instead of actual iq
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>>8756420
IQ tests are memorization and gimmicky problem solving
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>>8756446
Yes that's why my innate IQ is about 50 points higher than my IQ test scores.
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>>8756420
realizing the importance of your grade and knowing to study for it is part of intelligence two
Are MDs brainlets according to /sci/ standards?
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>muh medfags
stop having threads about them, they are barely sci relevant
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>>8756404
Where should we post about them?
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well /sci/ is made up of autistic math/phys undergrads and NEETS, so I'd say MDs are doing pretty well.
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Computer Science is for brainlets they said... 2017-03-17 10:02:59 Post No.8756240
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Computer Science is for brainlets they said...
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>>8756240
The number is false
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>>8756245
They said CS is for low IQ plebs that just want jobs at Google/Facebook/Amazon.
They said CS is for brainlets that want to do webdev.
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>>8756245
answer is 42
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1. Human thought and decision is a product of the human consciousness.
2. Human consciousness exists exclusively in the brain.
3. The brain is a physical entity.
4. Physical entities always obey the laws of physics.
5. Therefore, human thought and decision is entirely determined by the laws of physics.
6. Thus, free will does not exist.
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>>8756060
>Physical entities always obey the laws of physics.
But at quantum level, at least as far as we know physics is probabilistic rather than deterministic. So in perfect experiment of free will, you can run the same experiment many times and your result will be a gaussian statistical distribution, rather than a predetermined solution.
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>>8756074
The fact that something obeys physical laws does not mean it must be deterministic.
It is fully possible for these laws to describe what will happened in probabilities of multiple outcomes rather than one determined outcome.
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>law of physics
The so called laws are only a construct of our mind that is tweaked enough to help us in our life, we have no deep knowledge on how the universe works and we never will, it's not the goal of science to do so.
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Do women have it easier in STEM? 2017-03-17 08:36:30 Post No.8756042
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Do women have it easier in STEM?
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So I did some research about my former university fellows (physics major) and it turned out that most of the females now do PhD programms at really good universities or research facilities (like Wendelstein 7-x, CERN, ...) and other cool shit, while the male ones are stuck with shitty internships or low income jobs that don't even require a degree. Same applies to me.
Now I'm asking myself:
Do women have it easier in STEM related fields?
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Depends on the field. If it's a field where there are already a lot of women, then not really. If it's a field where women are like 10% of the population, then there will be some pressure to give them privileges.
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I once red a study that said that women are generally favored when it comes to hiring on STEM fields. Companies desperately want females when they have a boring sausage fest going on. I'd imagine it's the same thing when doctoral students are selected.
But if you get upset of this, then you're no better than the feminists who bitch about "male privilege".
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>>8756042
I think they do, but I don't think it's due to raw sexism.
Women in STEM (on average) are way better socially than the men are. If you're going to write two recommendation letters, one for
>cute girl in the front row who chats with you every lecture and gets involved in every single extracurricular event the math department has done for the past 4 years
>smelly sperg with 100% in your class
Which one do you think is going to be better?
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Why tf can't I pay a company to clone me and then harvest the healthy organs in my eventual old age for autotransplantation?
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Because that clone has this thing called human rights.
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Because you're not a billionaire. I have no doubt that with enough money, this would be technically feasible. You'd have to do it in secret and in the third world, but you COULD do it.
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>>8755956
A removed kidney doesn't have human rights. Why should a cloned kidney be any different?
This is assuming we're cloning the organs in isolation and not a whole human
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I'm having a difficult time understanding relativity, just from a perspective of someone trying to visualize the process. I know a few things about it. I know that time and space and length are not absolute, and this change takes more of an effect approaching light speed. Also, the speed of light is constant. Things gain mass and contract and time slows down when approaching light speed. These are all things I know you already know, but I just want you to know what I already know.
What I am really having difficult with is trying to understand the michelson morley experiment. What confuses me, is that when a person who is in a space shuttle going close to the speed of light emits a light going to the front and back of the space shuttle, the one in the space shuttle who emits the light will see both beams hit the front and back of the ship at the same time. A person observing the light being emitted from outside of the shit who is at rest, though, will see the beam hitting the back of the ship before the one that hits the front of it.
So supposedly since the space shuttle is going close to the speed of light, to an observer who is at rest outside of the ship, the beam going towards the front of the ship will be trying to "catch up" to the front of the ship. If this is true, then I don't understand how both beams of light emitted from earth wouldn't hit the detector at different speeds. If the earth was moving into light from the sun, it seems only natural that the speed of light would be earth's speed going towards the light + the speed of light itself. The speed of light never changed, but it wouldn't make sense not to add the speed of the earth. It's like the difference between ramming into a car head on, both going rather fast, or ramming into a car from behind, which is moving away from you. Obviously you will hit it at a much slower speed.
Please help me understand this, it escapes my comprehension.
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The only thing that is constant for us on earth is the rotation of earth itself. How we see light is relative to the rotation of earth. One can even say that a small fraction of light takes longer to reach us because of how gravity curves some of the light coming from the sun.
>brainlet here just trying to help you visualize what some may seem as a form of abstraction
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>>8755825
In your example, the earth is the spaceship so the observer sees the light simultaneously.
An observer not on the earth would measure different times for light from the sun to the earth, just like an observer watching the ship.
The earth/sun system is moving relatively slow so the effect wouldn't be large, but it's there.
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>>8755825
>This makes me wonder
How far would the shadow of earth reach in length?
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What is the mist useful non medical biology divisions? I want to study something that interests me but at the same time not be forced to work as a burger flipper with a masters
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>>8755682
none. biology is a fundamentally masturbatory subject unless you are intending to apply it somehow to medicine.
genetics-used in medicine
biochemistry-used in medicine
ecology-only useful when applied to medicine our human well bring
all other divisions follow suit
t. mathematician
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>>8755682
Biophysics
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>>8755702
>Biotechnology doesn't make food products
>Biotechnology isn't useful for bioremediatoin
>Biotechnology isn't used to create alternative fuel sources
t. high school senior who's spent too much time on 4chan
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based geologist reporting in
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>>8755665
Significance of screw ups correlate with significance of work. Why else do you think governments let us work with dangerous shit, while they let you play with rocks.
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>>8755672
yeah well...
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>>8755665
Philosopher screws up:
Radical change of society, millions dead in civil war
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Is racialism based in any sort of reality whatsoever or is it a dead hypothesis that keeps being used by brainlets so they can pretend to have superiority?
On that note are sexes at all diffrent in any significant way in terms of intellect?
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>>8755651
If there was a difference, what behavioral changes would you expect to be appropriate (a)In your own life? (b)In a society?
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>>8755663
I'm not really sure.
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>>8755669
Then it's not useful to ponder.
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how important is to learn algebra I II and trigonometry to deal with college math?
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>>8755640
they're prerequisites for a reason you fucking moron
this board is for smart people, leave
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>>8755640
Extremely
Entirely
It's like learning the alphabet to be able to read
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>>8755667
>this board is for smart people
Really activated those almonds
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It's time to put this debate to rest.
which is heavier?
a kilogram of steel? or a kilogram of feathers?
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Steel obviously
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Steel experiences less buoyancy.
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>>8754989
steel is less floaty, so feathers
I can't remember the name of this conjecture, help me out please.
For every whole positive number Z, there exists a prime X and whole positive Y such that X+(Y^2) =(Z^3)
like 7+1=8, 61+64=125 etc
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Also can be stated as "for every cube there is a square and a prime that sum to it."
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>>8754882
Fermat's Last Theorem?
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>>8754882
Dunno what it's called. But I noticed it doesn't hold up in some cases where Z is a perfect square (e.g. 1, 4, 25, 49, 64, 81, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225). It has at least one solution for other perfect squares (16, 36, 100). Very curious.
Do CT scans cause cancer?
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>>8754757
CT is just a 3d xray so yes its possible but unlikely unless you fall asleep in one while its on.
Dont know why theyre still used instead of an MRI since MRIs use just magnets instead of radiation
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>>8754789
In short they are still used because of the cost of purchasing/running an MRI is higher than a CT, and they can charge just as much.
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>>8754757
I don't see how with CT scans having been given in the millions since 1980 and cancer rates not increasing. That's not perfect foolproof logic but it's pretty damn good.
>>8754789
MRIs take a long time, cost a lot, and some things are better imaged with a CT. MRI of the head will take like 15-30 minutes where CT of the head will take 10 seconds.