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You'd need a second generation nuke for large yields. Pic related. 1 Gt nuke would radiate most of energy to space. Not really useful.

For handgrenade sized nukes you'd need fourth generation. Much more applicable to warfare. Pure aneutric fusion would be good for EPPP applications and conquest of the solar system.

Too bad nuke research has been gutted since the ruskies went down.

>>8337830
There were designs for 1 gigaton and 10 gigaton bombs in the 50's codenamed GNOMON and SUNDIAL.

The 1 GT one is assumed to have been the primary for the 10 GT one.

There's no upper limit to thermonuclear bombs going by theory

>>8337706
bad bait

With that respect, your scales will not tell you that you weigh a negative nor an irrational either. Different sets of numbers have their different corresponding applications. Obviously all of them don't pertain to everything - doesn't make them obsolete though.

Lul'd a little. It's sad that there really are people who don't understand that there's more to math and its relation to the real world than just the real numbers.

I think we will develop some form of biological immortality within our lifetimes. If we don't live naturally long enough to get true immortality, we will at least develop some method of life extension to allow us to live that long.

anyone who wants to live forever is a fool and deserves to get what they want with no off switch

>>8337573
Is it just me that gets more terrified by the thought of being unable to die one day moreso than being terrified of the fact that I will die someday? An eternity of suffering versus just suffering for a little while? Being dead sounds pretty relaxing in comparison to immortality.

My penis is 6 inches and I'm very satisfied.

>>8337570
It's a tool to roughly estimate one's efficiency in understanding and solving problems in science.
However, many people use it to estimate one's actual skills, knowledge or absolute limits in what he can ever archive. That's not how it works.

>>8337758
1. There are multiple types of IQ tests
2. They're all over the place
3. Some are controversial
4. Even the generally accepted tests are fallacious as they give equal weight to inductive, abductive and deductive reasoning

>>8337513
who is the bottom guy?

>>8337770
foucault

>>8337513

Grothendieck was quite straight, and a "proven commodity" in the sexual marketplace: he had five children by three different women. That's some evolutionary fitness right there. Foucault, meanwhile, was gay as a gymnast on shore leave, dying of AIDS in the 80s. Grothendieck would live about another 30 years, himself pushing 90 at the time of his death.

Both men were born within about two years of each other, so you could just about say that they were birth cohorts. Each man also spent important periods of his life around Paris and the ENS, and as academics, bounced around colleges. They both had batshit-leftist political orientations as well.

The similarities go much deeper than the polished, bespectacled cue-ball.

>>8337448
I'll say that I feel you bro. If you stop "living" and start asking questions, everything gets hard someway. I dont know how normies deal with it, maybe by just being normies.

>>8337520
so what do to stay sane?

>>8337576
Drugs. Take your pick. Alcohol, cocaine, weed.

Family. Get a wife and have children.

Work. Work for the sake of working/keeping busy. Work is freedom.

But seriously you need to try LSD. Go trip your balls off and you'll find that the childlike wonder is still inside you.

I don't know what you said, but if you prove something is real with an experiment every physicist will take you seriously.

>>8337418
If information was the cause for the funny results of double slit experiments, it would basically explain that a lack of information reaching our brains is responsible for the mismatched results.

I'm saying our personal perspective isn't good enough to study this brand of quantum mechanics, not without introducing a new study of physical information.

>>8337402
1. Information isn't special, it's just regular matter that interacts like other matter under the laws of physics.
2. Collapse of a quantum system is due to interaction with the system. This can be interpreted as information, but only in hindsight.
3. There's no reason to suggest that matter used to convey information follows laws any differently than matter that isn't. (Because all matter is a form of Information)

People get salty because you're attributing a metaphysical interpretation of fundamental laws. This has been done to death and you should know better.

Not for those things, but he's certainly a con artist when it comes to science.

>muh simulation

Literally rule 1 of science is falsification

>>8337387
He's actually selling the electric cars, though, and when people buy them they actually get the electric cars and are satisfied with them. When you promise something, and then deliver people what you promised but only if they give you money, that's not actually a 'con'. That's called a 'business'.

That's like the time I conned people out of their money by telling them I'd suck their dicks for $5, and then not sucking their dicks until they gave me $5.

>>8337460
>strict falsificationism
go fuck yourself
If a simulation theory predicted yet unobserved result with an extremely high precision we would favour it.
The same way discovering Neptune based on Newtonian mechanics reinforced it as the favoured model.

Short answer: very carefully

Long answer: half of their brain sleeps while the others stays awake so it can swim and surface for air.

They dream of Aquatic Sheep.

>>8337344
>Ey Yo Teach! How dem dolphinz be sleepin if dey gots sharks n shiet?
I've heard that if I teach at an "underprivileged" school the government will help pay of my student loan. Is this the kind of shit I'll have to deal with if I do?

Women

>>8337234
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>radical

>regularly failed his exams in school while he concentrated on reading Legendre's Geometry cover to cover.

>Péclet wrote of the young genius "He knows absolutely nothing. I have been told that this student has mathematical ability; this certainly astonishes me. Judging by his examination, he seems of little intelligence, or has hidden his intelligence so well that I found it impossible to detect it"

> Galois also failed to gain admittance to the École Polytechnique not once, but two times. During the first of these examinations, in 1829, Galois was so frustrated by the inane questions that he vented his anger by throwing an eraser at his examiner

Complete the square you faggit

>>8337133
the best way is by symmetric polynomials.

>>8337134
you mean like factor x squared and solve the zeroes?

This doesn't have much to do with IQ so it wont go very far.

I'm in it right now, it sucks.

>>8337117
>Navy Nuclear Power Program

don't do it. my brother in law is a nuke. he lost 20lbs last deployment because the sub tender that was supposed to deliver them food got delayed by 2 weeks and the whole crew was living off bread and water.

graphene is defined as a 2d object

>>8337114
how can an object with no width even be called an object?

>>8337141
how can a photon with no mass be called a particle? LOL

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>mfw haven't learn linear algebra yet
no greater feel 2bqh senpai

>>8337719
Download Linear Algebra Done Wrong right now and go through every little thing in the text.

>>8337769
Why would I use that book? What are the advantages over others?

you''d have more success locking yourself inside a library. internet leads to procrastination.

>>8337031
True.

But let's assume that this person had excellent focus and willpower... How far do you think he could get in his study of mathematics?

>>8337062
i am that person
not far, senpai; you'll never discover anything new, just constantly play catch-up against people who died centuries or decades ago