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What's the most you have studied in a month(30 days)?
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At one point I was studying a good 12 hours a day every day with no days off in preparation for the Biology GRE subject test.
I ended up scoring in the 97th percentile. Feels good man.
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>>8718548
Wow, that's pathetic given the amount you studied and the fact that it was a secondary education level text.
I'd feel horrible.
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>>8718551
Rude.
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Coming here for the first time is a bit intimidating but also inspiring. Do you believe with proper dedication and discipline one could be a leading scientist or philosopher? In the hour ive been on here ive already witnessed more intelligence in a single thread than the sum of my entire life. Albeit im only 19 years old. Also i dont know how strict mods are here, so i guess this will be my test. And is there a way of seeing if one is actually smart and should consider pursuing a career in STEM or is it a hit or miss thing? Also, what would you recommend for someone my age who is wanting to expand their knowledge and just better themselves as a person? Help me get smart sci.
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Also i definitely meant to use this image, not a hair cut template for my barber lul
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>>8718477
>Coming here for the first time is a bit intimidating but also inspiring. Do you believe with proper dedication and discipline one could be a leading scientist or philosopher? In the hour ive been on here ive already witnessed more intelligence in a single thread than the sum of my entire life. Albeit im only 19 years old.
I'm sorry, but if you think /sci/ is smart, then there's no hope for you. You must have the intelligence of a clam.
But seriously, there is no real test to see if you're good for STEM, you just have to try taking a few classes or working through a textbook to see if you enjoy a subject and are good at it. I would recommend checking out free course videos on youtube (I know Berkely has some good videos for my field of Biology, and MIT has good math and physics lectures) and also reading books at your local library. Just dive right in and see if the stuff is interesting to you. If you're a good fit for a STEM career, then interest will be natural. If it doesn't feel interesting, then just find something else that's interesting.
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>>8718483
Help me ascend to oysterhood then goyim.
Also im 2 years in to my engineering degree. But i just want to be on the front lines of discovery. But i dont know how to go about achieving this.
Why do people give a shit about the double slit and its results? So what if measurement makes a difference?
How useful are these findings, when you can set up the same lab experiment except scale it to the size of tennis balls that are shoot at two slits. Do you actually tink you'll see a defraction pattern? How is this experiment used to suggest reality somehow isn't real or virtual or whatever? It's results only matter to atomist NEETs who don't care about anything larger than an electron, so why should we care about their localized experimental data?
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>>8718138
>what is radio
>what is wifi
>what is x-ray
>what are microscopes
>what are telescopes
Particle wave duality is the most fundamental property of Electromagnetic Radiation. Now go back to doing your homework little Johnny, I don't want to get a call from Mr. Peterson again regarding your grades.
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>>8718138
people commonly reject things they are too stupid to understand. you seem to have done that.
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so why THE FUCK should the electron care to know that we know what slit it came from... WHY THE FUCK does it say, oh shit, they know! go back in MOTHERFUCKING TIME and tell its twin they know where I came from, be like a particle BITCH.
WHY. THE. FUCK. It doesn't make any sense in any rational world. Delayed choice quantum eraser... IT. DOESN'T. MAKE. SENSE.
EXPLAIN IT TO ME!!!
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>>8718069
Electrons have deep feelings, bro. They care so much.
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In the reference frame of light, the light always arrives at its destination instantaneously. There is no time "after it is emitted but before it is detected".
In the light's frame, there is also no distance between its origin and its destination, so both points in space are co-local.
With these facts in mind, there is no mystery about how the light seems to "know" what will happen to it at the time it is emitted.
In the light's frame, "what happens to it" occurs at the same time as its emission.
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newfag here
>the reply forms have TEX
cool
>>8718140
>In the reference frame of light, the light always arrives at its destination instantaneously.
are you implying light moves infinitely fast? why should it be that it arrives at its destination instantaneously?
in any case, it's an electron, not a light photon, in this case
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Will I die if I take a 500 calories diet next to doing one hour of cardio every day and just eat once in a day (Intermittent fasting) for an entire month?
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>>8717801
Hopefully. If not, then please do kill yourself.
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I sure hope so
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>>8717801
Probably not. People have gone an entire year with out eating. You should try to smash that record.
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If you don't use a mechanical pencil, you don't know shit about science.
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>>8717771
>Not wanting to feel cold hard wood between your fingers
Wow OP what is wrong with you?
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>>8717785
Enjoy your calluses.
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>>8717771
>0.5
>Not using 0.3
Fucking pleb.
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WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE THIS MEME LAB CLASSES. FUCKING LAB MONKEYS I HATE YOU.
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>>8717731
Man, you're going to hate having an actual job.
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>>8717742
Not really no. I have ab actual job, and even that is more stimulating than my labs.
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>>8717731
You think you have it bad? I assist in a chem lab, we literally mark students on how to use a scale correctly
imgaine sitting there marking 50 kids weighing out 1.0g of NaOH IMAGINE. Then WHOO WEEE they go and titrate it and then you get 50 kids asking if this clear solution is purple!!!!
Fuck you man, shut up and do the lab. Get your easy marks you spoon fed little cunt
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So let's set aside the autism controversy, and focus on something important, are vaccines useful? Did we as human beings make a grand mistake, a scientific error in the effectiveness in vaccines with their "place" in history?
For you see, I have friend, and he was never vaccinated(You can be unvaccinated in the USA, they are not mandatory, if you know your rights as a civilian). And get this, he never got sick in life! And he's also not a weeaboo, he's very healthy and he's banged a couple bitches in his lifetime.
Now an argument from the pro-vaxx crowd says, that my friend is only safe, because of "herd immunity." Which states that the surrounding vaccinated populace creates some sort of shield around him, and "that's" why he does not get sick.
Well, do I have a counter argument for you!
For starters, vaccines actually have a waning effectiveness rate that drops year by year. As sited in sauce: The Globe and noted neurosurgeon Russel Blaylock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ELht9KQhM
So that means, by the 10 year or so, the vaccine traces will have left the body.
Which means, the biggest percentage of the American population, the baby boomers, are akin to being practically vaccinated, since their initial vaccines "wore off"
So, my friend in this case is not protected by a shield of metaphorical(and literal) "sheep in a herd". In fact, he could considered fine and healthy because he just takes care of himself and uses common sense.
Finally, the kicker,
If someone, vaccinated or not, is exposed to a communicable disease, but doesn't get sick from it, that individual is unknowingly going to be spreading the pathogen everywhere he or she goes, including infecting the most vulnerable. Someone who falls ill with chicken pox, measles, etc., will stay home in bed, thereby avoiding exposing others outside the household, and even those caring for him/her will be aware of preventive hygiene to avoid contamination.
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how do you prove that vaccines lose effectiveness over time?
is it because they get sick?
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>>8717692
Tell me, were you vaccinated? Because this the most autistic post I've ever seen.
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>>8717692
Huh? What's that? I can't hear you over VACCINES HAVE ERADIACTED FUCKING SMALLPOX
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If I stand on the moon and throw an ounce of gold in the direction of a large city,
will it be destroyed?
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>>8717550
No. It would burn up in the atmosphere.
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>>8717553
What about a cannonball made of Rhenium (boiling point ~5900K)?
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What is the evidence that humans are directly responsible for climate change? I mean I agree that the Earth is getting warmer. We went through the Ice Age which has been proven to have happened and began almost 1.8 million years ago and just ended approximately 11,700 years ago naturally by itself. The ice had already melted long before Humans started even using Fossil Fuels. We have just started using coal like 200 years ago. That's a pretty short time to impact the earth in such a drastic matter don't you think?
Maybe the Earth just goes through a long cooling process and then a long warming process?
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>>8709981
Are you just willfully ignorant? The evidence abounds. Use fucking Google.
Here I'll spoonfeed you like the mental child you are.
>https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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>>8709981
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Now if you would kindly rebut the extensive research proving that humans are a leading cause in global warming, i would be happy to engage.
The research is out there and has been for a while by many international and national bodies.
The burden is on climate deniers to explain why the overwhelming evidence is incorrect or wrong in some way, since the evidence exists showing that humans in fact do have a large impact on global warming. Prove me wrong.
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>>8709997
I'm not denying climate change.
I'm just saying where is the proof that humans are too blame.
Yeah okay nice chart in pic related, but It only goes back 400,000 years.
Pro Tip: The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years.
It's a pretty bullshit claim to say Earth is in at the highest peak ever when you don't have data for all those years and just only 650,000 years.
"Scientist" today still can't prove how or why the Ice Age happened and we don't know how many cycles of glacial advance and retreat prior to the Ice Age actually occurring.
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Describe the smartest person you know 2017-02-28 12:46:45 Post No.8708996
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He excelled in math. Now he teaches math at Harvard.
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>>8708996
>He excelled in math. Now he teaches math at Harvard.
same for the smartest person i know
maybe its the same person
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>>8708999
What is his research area?
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>>8709001
number theory
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Why are math professors horrible? 2017-02-25 02:35:41 Post No.8700934
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Graduate student Harriet Hungate took Kaczynski’s topology class. He impressed her.
“He was this young guy, tall and good looking, and had all the outward manifestations of someone who would be very sociable,” she said.
Hungate needed someone to talk to. She was in crisis, thinking of dropping out, “hanging in there by the skin of my teeth.”
She went to Kaczynski’s office for a conference. She asked questions about the course, but then her emotions took over. She spilled out her fears and doubts, looking to her professor for warmth and reassurance.
His response chilled her. Kaczynski didn’t acknowledge she had spoken.
“There was no reaction at all,” Hungate said. “Usually there’s a person in there who responds to what is said, but I looked in his eyes, and I saw no person there.”
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>>8700934
I had this Russian math prof in 2nd year who was so fine. I haven't deleted her email yet because I am a creep.
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>Bitch comes to you talking about academics
>She suddenly goes bat shit insane and talks about her personal life and how miserable it is
Implying women aren't the crazy ones
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I'd be speechless too, he isn't paid for that shit.
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Is my soul a bioelectrical current running through my nervous system? If I transferred it onto a computer, would there be a way to program myself to be happy?
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>>8719152
have you tried N,α-dimethylphenethylamine my friend?
It cured my son of autism
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>>8719152
I think my soul is spiritual energy. It has always been, is and always will be mine. If/when this body dies, I will continue to have consciousness and will likely choose to start over in a new body. Space and time are mere limited concepts, but I am infinite and beyond mere limited ideas I've been told to believe.
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>>8719176
Thanks but I absolutely can't stand the word spirtual. Like I think the spirit is just the energy your body combusts from food
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animals are humans
sealions are dogs
the supposed differences between a neanderthal and homo-sapiens aren't real beyond any other social construct like race.
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>>8719109
The word "race" is actually the laymen term for "subspecies".
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I fucking love science
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>>8719109
Everything is a social construct. There's no difference between life and non-life. There's no real difference between energy and mass. Between 1 and 0. It's all just perceived differences due to "our" inability to perceive the true nature of reality.
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Hello /sci/
as a physicist, I feel as if mankind is going to self-destruct very soon because I kinda feel like we reached our limit in knowledge as creatures and it's time for us to just kill ourselves with the advancements we achieved
am I the only one who thinks this /sci/?
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>>8718920
You're a physicist? How did you find a job? That's amazing. What do you research?
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Yes
Kill yourself already
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>>8718920
The only one left alive
chick-chick *cocks gun*
But not for long.... *Fades into the blackness*