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>>9138477
Read ahead and outside the syllabus. Makes the course material seem basic

>>9138469
Never, ever listen to a paleontologists when it comes to size. They're always wrong. The overwhelming single most important reason that animals achieve enormous sizes is because they can and because it's generally better to be bigger. It's literally that simple. The reason we don't have massive Ratites is because 1: Humans kill all large animals and 2: They're not playing their A game anymore. This isn't the Mesozoic anymore. Mammals do that now. And the largest Crocodilians are pretty fucking big. Remember, Dinosaurs had hundreds of millions of years to achieve the things they did - Crocodilians had even longer. Mammals have only had the freedom to do that for about 65 million. Also, keep in mind, the Cenozoic has achieved multiple record-breakers itself, such as Titanoboa, Argentavis and Blue Whales.

>>9138518
Aren't there downsides to being bigger? Like killing just like two dozen elephants could fuck over the whole species. Also aren't there physiological issues?

>>9138469
>Feathered tyrannosaurus
We have fucking skin impressions good damn it

pls halp

someone must know

I am a fucking faggot
t. D.

You should ask >>>/adv/

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>>9138431
start doing crossfit to help you run from the police/security guards. Learn how to spot and avoid security cameras and PIS's. Trust no one, only the closest members of your cell, dont ask dont tell in regards to your "criminal behavior" Dont fall for the weed meme but go nuts with psychedelics. Dont go around looking for the party crowd, find people you like and party with them. read. Take a field biology course. Ecosystem science compliments physics well.
Pay for nothing, steal whatever you want, live of the scraps and smoke the trash! Living in dorms is for complete suckers go squat with the cool kids. study. be friends with your professors, TA's and any academic types, focus on getting research experience. Physists should be versed in philosophy, particularly epistemology, ontology and mereology.
stay safe kid
t. too smart for college

>>9138431
You're gonna fail your first test most likely. If you don't want to do that, practice the lesson immediately after each lecture. Study in groups, go to office hours bc they'll show you tricks, and if you're teacher sucks ass sit in on another lecture with a better professor when you can but still show up to your own lecture. PRACTICING>Studying

Mathfags btfo

>>9138420
Rigor is for the brainlet undergrads.
The true mathematicians use their PHENOTYPE and INTUITION to understand the deep mysteries of methemetics.

>>9138420

The joy of mathematics is that it perfectly straddles the abstract and the concrete, the scientific and the artistic. It thus beautifully frustrates and eludes the normies who are nevertheless hopelessly dependent on it, exactly because they are hopelessly dependent upon their need to express abstract statements about reality in order to get anything else done at all. They are all thus made to bow at the beauty of math, exactly because it is math that most perfectly straddles the sciences and the arts.

That's the magnetic field. The magnetic force is a farce since it does not obey action and reaction without including field momentum e cross b. the magnetic force cannot change the speed of charged particle, only the depiction of its velocity. The magnetic force in the ampere force example you give points out from the wire actually, f=current times length of wire, times mag field b. Force=i l b

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Ehh I am just getting into this stuff and don't really get what you mean. I thought the 3 directions in the op pic were direction, electric force, and magnetic force, but pic related makes it look like I was wrong.

>>9138392
Oh wait, so one direction is positive charge direction, and the other 2 directions just tell you if the magnetic field is moving cw or ccw?

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>>9138327

Your birth was a boneless shit. Prove me wrong.

>>9138294
I have bones, point proven. Though I do regret being born since the age of 10 or so.

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>>9138262
No corona

>>9138252
The amount of money you offer somebody doesn't proportionally increase how well they perform a complex task. In fact, the more money you offer past a certain point, the worse they do.

>>9138252
People tends to over-invest once they initially commit to a thing.

People will follow group's authority is said group is cohesive, even if it's obviously plain wrong.

>>9138252
Discovery of the unconscious mind

>>9138222

Dumber only because everyone and their grandmother is forced into college so they can hold down a shitty office job. The average stacie or chad isn't interested in their field of study, and if they are it's usually due to pseudo-intellectual ego inflation.

STEM autists have it just as hard today as before. The only difference is that technology compensating for raw calculation on paper means schools can jam more content into a curriculum. On average students are dumb as shit, but that is because of the general population bum-rushing the formerly elite and relatively isolated academic community. Academia was the domain of richfags and IQfags. To some extent European countries maintain academic segregation, with normies going to vocational schools and more quick minds getting sent off to a university. I bet good money that the average Eurofag college student is smarter.

As far as the general population goes, fuck if I know. I'm not convinced that we aren't at the same ratio of retards to geniuses that we were centuries before. Literacy is fine and dandy but that doesn't prevent your average normy from engaging in utterly fucking retarded memes like MLM's and email phishing scams. I honestly think people had better street smarts before than now, and that we've traded one for the other. Stacey and Chad can read and write as well as shitpost on cuckbook, that doesn't mean they contribute anything of value to society. An illiterate blacksmith objectively does more for the world than a literate office drone.

>>9138222
About the same.
Go back 2000 years. People had about the same intelligence distribution, assuming appropriate nutrition. Not IQ obviously, but intelligence. They were just as clever and crafty. Only things that have really changed is our tools and how much free time we have, and the ability to build upon the work done by those before us.

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Dumber, if we consider the whole planet. The relative proportion of Africans and Indians on Earth is larger than it was 20-30 years ago, and those people generally don't fare well in IQ tests.

If we consider only white people, then I doubt there has been any change in 20-30 years. IQ mostly genetic, and obviously we haven't suddenly evolved to be smarter within this time period. Also, the standard of living in western countries hasn't improved so much that it could've improved our intelligence.

>>9138198
like how ur dick is a tiny dot

>>9138198
Why dots? Why not strings?

>>9138198
No everything is waves. Everything is just a bunch of squiggelys

>>9138152
Energy's an inherent property of space (vacuum energy, zero point energy)

Unless you have no space, you'll always have energy. (Vacuum energy is mathematically infinite without renormalization)

>>9138152
Also energy's mass and vice versa.

Here's the full equation that's more precise and much more entertaining when pondering: E^2 = (pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2

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>>9138131
That reminds me of a more interesting and rigorous science book written for a general audience. I haven't read it but I highly respect the author and his work, check it out.

Excellent observation. Most people's interest stops at the extent of thier official obligation. The real physicists who will bring us into complete paradigm shifts are those who endlessly discuss foundational questions in physics, such as the unsolved 19th century electromagnetic paradoxes as elucidated by the ignorant Ashkenazi, Feynman, in his noble speech. If feynman had bothered to care about the foundational questions he complained of not solving, he would know that these late 19th century mysteries were solved in the mid 19th, by weber's force law. Shrodinger in the 1920's, used webers force law to derive the precession of the perhelion of mercury's orbit, shrodinger's physics friends cared about physics, but feynman and his friends only cared about prestige, and so lacked the necessary curiousty in thier discussions which never led to the information which Feynman needed to solve what he and other late 20th century thinkers believed in ignorance of weber, we're still mysteries, lol.

>>9138131
go to grad school, i swap non-fiction science oriented books with people all the times, i actually got laid because of a book on prions, not even joking. well not really because of it, but it was used as a segway to get me into her room

Anyone?

>>9138104
You want to be a deep sea scientist so you should just go the marine biology path.

>>9138158
That's what I was originally thinking, but then I realized I would need to learn how to create machines that can explore the deep sea in order to study deep sea creatures in their natural habitat, since my country has no deep sea technology at all

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Why do you want to study math? What's your ultimate goal in terms of career? If you're just studying math for the sake of it, I'd recommend pic related.

>>9138122
>all that for 1 year of undergrad
Jesus fucking Christ, that's monstrous.
Years of cramming entire lists of differential diagnoses and treatment algorithms into my head without really understanding what the fuck I was memorizing have made me realize that I do not enjoy studying medicine. I deeply enjoy math because everything makes sense. I love how things are deeply interconnected in math. I have no concrete goal in terms of career, maybe I would like to mix my medical knowledge with math so that I don't feel like all these years of suffering were wasted for literally nothing.

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>>9138132
Im not even one year into med, and I am a hyuge spacefag. I need math, so that I can understand the mechanisms behind starting the first cosmic drugtrade operation