If you went back in time to 1916 and explained to the top scientists and engineers the concepts of space rockets, satellites, computers, the internet, GPS, and cell phones, would they be able to understand how these things work?
General Relativity was done in 1915, so understanding yes, manufacturing no
>>8529077
man if i was in charge of constanintople i would have run it alot fucking better. was shit at the time. no wonder fucking turks got to it. shame. centre of civilisation clapped down for no reason. ther caretakers must have been fucking terrible, whatever emperors.
>Monkeys could talk but they don't have the brains for it
>Monkeys are found to have the necessary vocal equipment to vocalize almost all the sounds humans can
Why is this allowed? By nature? Why do they have what it takes to talk like people if they don't need to? Is human language basically made up entirely of a handful of different kinds of grunts and clicks, strung together into sentences? Or is something weird that we don't yet understand going on here?
Article:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/09/504890630/say-what-monkey-mouths-and-throats-are-equipped-for-speech
Very creepy simulation of what monkey speech might sound like at the end.
>>8528303
>Is human language basically made up entirely of a handful of different kinds of grunts and clicks, strung together into sentences?
Short answer, pretty much.
People have a weird misconception about evolution, but it's understandable. They think that evolution happens for a purpose, when in reality, it's just a simple mechanism.
Take a common example. There's a population of giraffes, but due to an environment change, the leaves towards the bottoms of trees are becoming more sparse. Most people would think the giraffes would evolve longer necks to make up for it, but the reality of it is that some random mutation happens, and regardless of the side effects, if it allows the genetically mutated giraffe with a longer neck to live til they can copulate, then that gene gets passed down. It could very well be that that giraffe or its kids gets killed in a freak accident, and then the population doesn't evolve. Or, they outcompete the others and soon the genetic makeup is only the longer necks.
In this case, the ability to communicate didn't evolve in humans so they could speak more, it just happened as a consequence of the ability to communicate in some way or another through sound was environmentally advantageous. Such a thing isn't hard to believe that it was that way before the population that would evolve to become humans was around.
>>8528310
Sounds like someone is choking
>professor writes up an equation
>end of class
>"Is this clear for everyone?"
>one guy lifts hand at the back seat
>"It's all clear I think and it looks really neat, I just don't get that big S sign at the beginning"
>professor's face when
>professor writes up an equation
>end of class
>"Is this clear for everyone?"
>"yes professor"
>exam average is 60
>>8528104
Holy shit you are stupid
>>8528087
>professor writes up an equation
>end of class
>"Is this clear for everyone?"
>one guy lifts his hand at the back seat
>"It's all clear I think and it looks really neat, I just don't get that big S sign at the beginning"
>"Itchen to pee!"
>"lol wut?"
>"*cough* It's Entropy!"
Would a deterministic universe solve the time travel paradoxon? If you traveled in the past and tried to change something, you actually always traveled in the past and by trying to change something you actually only brought things on the course they eventually went. So time travel would be possible, since freedom doesnt exist.
>>8527840
No.
>>8527840
yeah i think so actually. it would mean that time-travel would only ever be possible in a case where it led you to the point of traveling back again. this is a good idea OP. Time travel paradoxes won't happen because its impossible for them to.
>>8527840
The Universe IS deterministic. Time travel is impossible, the physics just don't work for it. Causality is the least of the problems, presumably if time travel were possible then violations of causality would be no big deal.
[eqn]\frac{8}{\pi}\int_0^\infty \cos \left(2x\right)\prod_{n=1}^\infty\cos\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)dx = 0.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999811\dots \ne 1[/eqn]
How? Why does math fuck with people so much? Its less than [math]10^{-41}[/math] from 1, yet its not 1.
>>8527751
"It's less than 10^(-41) from 1, yet it's not 1."
well, no shit. In stead of asking us how, try proving it yourself and if you can't prove it,try showing us what you did or talk to a professor. 3/10 if troll
>>8527751
How the fuck would you even integrate infinite products?
>>8527780
Calc II, the post
Anybody have any good scince podcasts or radio shows that they regularly listen to? I've been listening to Nature podcasts, public radio suff and sceptics guide to the galaxy for a while. Getting a bit tired of the latter though
shameless self bump
BBC Radio 5 have a great show on thursday called "Up all night". Might not be your kind of thing if you don't enjoy popsci but it's pretty comfy listening.
May be an issue listening outside the UK however.
The naked scientists
Cambridge run weekly podcast, pretty good and informative.
When will the singularity come already? I'm so sick and tired of waiting
You are sick and tired of waiting because you unable to delay gratification because of all the instant gratification you are being bombarded with on a daily basis.
Patience is a virtue, o impatient one.
>>8526542
post your porn related questions on /hc/, pls
>>8526542
>When will the singularity come already?
the world expects every man to do his duty to bring it forth, I am doing my part, why aren't you?
Show me physical evidence (that i can see with my eyes) that particles like electrons and muons and those kinds of things exist.
(You cant, can you? How sad for you.)
>>8526493
>that I can see with my eyes
>not understanding how your eyes see
End yourself for this shit tier troll.
>>8526502
so in other words you have no physical evidence, thought so.
so we can't see particles actually moving, there's nothing to show "wow a particle just flew by, look at it go!"
we have no evidence they actually exist beyond a mathematical construct to explain something
>>8526510
Aren't electrons just probability waves?
What are some helpful tips for a successful lucid dream?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDX8QrcDI_o
need headphones best if they have 7.1
>>8526444
Have you had a lucid dream before, or are you trying to practice consistency and their vividness?
>>8526444
Apple juice.
http://kval.com/outdoors/fukushima-radiation-detected-on-oregon-shores
>Nuclear Energy isn't dangerous
>Ignores the disasters like Fukushima and Chernobyl
Top lel
>>8526033
and i can detect radiation from the sun when its daytime.
>>8526052
>if it's natural how could it be bad?!!
>>8526057
>Researchers say seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach indicate radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, but at extremely low levels not harmful to humans or the environment.
>but at extremely low levels not harmful to humans or the environment.
anybody wonder what his name is?
>>8525714
the disordered jew
>>8521210
is there a notation for this?
>>8525714
the fundamentally flawed thought experiment
Category: Unimaginably Large and Small numbers that surpass googolplex or negative googolplex.
>largest named number not notation
Graham's Number
>>8521227
Grahams number + 1
>>8521210
Googolplexianthian
Googolplexianthianth
Googolplexianthianthian
Googolplexianthianthianth
you get these shit-tier posts go viral all the time on the shit-tier social networking websites, how about you try and make proper ones
bonus points if they look easy but are actually long and tedious to solve
this is a perfect fit.
>>8519414
>pear = 17/13
>apple = 20/13
>bonono = 32/13
fuk dis
>>8519541
The first one has infinitetly many solutions.I stopped there.
The Expanding Earth theory is an interesting idea especially with the stunning different visual ‘evidence’. The Earth’s continents appear to fit together on a smaller planet, to form a ‘supercontinent’ that would be the whole Earth’s surface. Also, our continents form a nearly perfect Pangea
Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ
Con
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwg6Od49e8
>>8529045
a 5 year old could tell you youre full of shit. i hope you feel proud. my son loves pangea and dinosaurs and shit like that. its the best evidence out there. whats your alternative?
>>8529045
>The Expanding Earth theory is an interesting idea
I could see how to the layman without any kind of formal education such a theory seems appealing. To the rest of us it is stupidity writ large worthy of ridicule.
>>8529056
So its normal for a sun to balloon up to 100 times its size
but its impossible for the Earth over hundreds of millions of earths?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGguwYPC32I
>Look at how smart I am, guys!!! XDD
>I can explain 4-dimensional space!! XDDD
>Please tell me I'm intelligent! XD
I hate little faggots like this. The good thing is that kids like this never end up being successful scientists. I have only met alpha males in my PhD program. And none of them circle-jerk about how they can visualize 26-dimensional space or any other cringy pop-sci bullshit.
>>8528546
>PhD program full of alphas who are unable to visualize 26 dimensions
I know the board is called /sci/, but this isn't really the place for polysci majors.
>>8528546
desu, i hated more that the comments complimented him so much when he just had a deep voice that made him seem like a prodigy. i always wanted to say that his example of a 2d spaces stacked on top of eachother didn't really work.
>>8528546
>And none of them circle-jerk about how they can visualize 26-dimensional space
Because it isn't some major accomplishment. Just visualize R^n and set n=26.