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fuck off, read book, do problems

Why do you want to be interested in physics?

>>8308660
give up anime for good

>>8308581
>I don't want to work as a military contractor

why? they have all the interesting shit

>>8308606
>why?
i'm a pacifist and don't want to make my living creating the means by which war is waged

>>8308609
gay

Correction, physicists being the autistic tinfoil wearers as they were decades ago.

>>8308562
No one actually thinks it's alien. It's probably a similar thing to the WoW! signal which was never repeated again. Probably some cosmic event. Some scientists working on this even suggest it may be Gravitational lensing where it is possible that a massive object like a star might have amplified a smaller signal from behind it...

>>8308567
>Gravitational lensing
>a massive object like a star amplified a smaller signal from behind it
autism
>>>/x/

>>8308550
Christians make up around 33% of the world's population

The best it can be is a fake thing with consequences.

Depends. There is such a thing as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

>>8308503

you provided the best talking point of all at the bottom of your post, OP

>doesnt know anything about statistics or models
>wants to talk about what science is/is not

Very simply put it works like this:
Pick a field.
Pick a model pertaining to your selected field.
Does the model work?
If it works-
>Cool. Let's use it to figure shit out.
If it doesn't work-
>Okay. Let's figure out why and fix it.
Repeat.

>>8308503
Science - uses the scientific method to test hypotheses

Non-science - everything else

>>8308495
>if the ensuing relativistic jet is directed towards us?
Betelgeuse's pole isn't pointed in our direction.
>ensuing relativistic jet
Relativistic jets come from active galactic nuclei, black holes and neutron stars. Not red giants.

Hypernovae produce powerful gamma ray bursts, perhaps that's what you're asking about?
Betelgeuse isn't a massive hypergiant, so it won't produce a gamma ray burst. It's a red supergiant, and will explode like your everyday supernova, a spherical explosion that will have dissipated into oblivion by the time the thin ass shell hits the solar system, if it ever does.

Betelgeuse will not cause us any harm. It'll be a pretty sight, brightness comparable to the full moon. It'll stay bright for a few weeks, maybe a month.

>>8308506
>Betelgeuse's pole isn't pointed in our direction.

How can you be so sure?

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>>8308511
Did you not read the rest of my post? Even if it was pointed at us, literally nothing would happen.

Betelgeuse is large and close enough that you can actually directly image it and study its rotation and activity to determine where the poles are.

>>8308416
C isn't fast.

>>8308416
C++ is faster

>>8308475
gold

HURRR DUURR ITS SO LONG IT MUST BE HARD AND ONLY FOR GENIUSES

Go back to twatter you fucking retard.

>>8308361
>"...particle physicists have vomit for brains."

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>"we will not insult the intelligence of our reader by providing a proof"

White/gray matter ratio

>>8308319
we are not equal. check out different belll curve distributions.

>>8308319
emotions get too much in the way the further you plan ahead.

>autistic losers just got another thing to blame their failures on

great.

next up: free will can't exist in a probabilistic universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Physics

discuss

Virgins now literally blaming mommy for never hugging them.

it's pretty garbage throughout

>>8308225
8 years and still learning, m8

how do i learn this shit, any resources?

>>8308225
Maybe a few hours, but I obviously forget a lot of lesser-used commands, and am still learning some formatting.

But to get proficient enough to publish? Like a few hours.

>>8308316
Install it and type shit up. Doofus.

>>8308214
Your mom

i think there are 10 spacial dimensions my man

What is time

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>>8308201
Can you post some references? This is quite fascinating but /x/ could be better at this than /sci/. I'm into meditation now. First thing I want to improve is memory. You know when you experience crisp dreams? I'd like to do that during the day with real life material like textbooks. Anapanasati coupled with mindfulness during the day could be key to achieving good meditation sessions.

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From:

Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical (Spectrum)
by Steven Krantz.

Posted recently by another Anon.

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>>8308382

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test

Perhaps, since you can then realize that you are your distinct "self", and that the other entities around you are their distinct "self".

However this is a very vague and philosophical topic, because the word "conscious" is a vague term.

> What was even the point of this

>>8308155
You are really misquoting Descartes there.
"I think Therefore I am" is actually to posit the metaphysical existence of ones self, not as a realization of ones consciousness

>>8308173
>Perhaps, since you can then realize that you are your distinct "self", and that the other entities around you are their distinct "self".
That's sense of self not consciousness.
Source: on shrooms you're still consciousness but you feel no distinction between yourself, others, or the universe at large.

[soiler]it's interesting because this implies that this feeling/perception (of distinctness), is a mere product of the mind -> it could be false. So too could then be our feelings and perceptions of consciousness.

>>8308062
you'd have to wait a long time, famalam

>>8308070
"Female fruit flies are capable of laying hundreds of eggs within their brief life spans. Eggs are most commonly laid on moist, fermenting food masses such as overripe fruit and vegetables. Within 24 to 30 hours, fruit fly eggs hatch into larvae known as maggots. These maggots feed on the fruits within which they were laid.

Within one week, maggots burrow through the decaying matter and molt. After five to six days, larvae move to a dry surface and transform into pupae. A few days later, adult fruit flies emerge. Fruit flies become sexually active within two days of emerging as adults. Female fruit flies may mate with several males and store sperm for future use."

Lets just assume you have hundreds of thousands of fruit flies, that should be hundred of thousands of new life cycles every day.

>>8308062

fruitflys have been used to prove mutations are hereditary but what you are suggesting would take a very long time with extreme dedication just to find out its hazard to force evolution