[Boards: 3 / a / aco / adv / an / asp / b / bant / biz / c / can / cgl / ck / cm / co / cock / d / diy / e / fa / fap / fit / fitlit / g / gd / gif / h / hc / his / hm / hr / i / ic / int / jp / k / lgbt / lit / m / mlp / mlpol / mo / mtv / mu / n / news / o / out / outsoc / p / po / pol / qa / qst / r / r9k / s / s4s / sci / soc / sp / spa / t / tg / toy / trash / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vint / vip / vp / vr / w / wg / wsg / wsr / x / y ] [Search | Free Show | Home]

Archived threads in /sci/ - Science & Math - 1526. page

This is a blue board which means that it's for everybody (Safe For Work content only). If you see any adult content, please report it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVJvpNyjdc
Thunderf00t is making a series attacking the hyper loop concept, but seeing as there's already a test track in the works and millions of dollars invested in this scheme, who is right?
Could air entering the vacuum tube really cause the capsule to accelerate uncontrollably and is there a way to counter it?
123 posts and 10 images submitted.
>>
>thunderf00t
>>>/v/
>>
>>8214926

That's a cute experiment with a solid metal ball in a glass tube...

You're forgetting that these vehicles have turbines propelling them.

The physics of that video have no bearing on how this vehicle operates. If there is a depressurization, either the turbines will exact force proportionally in the opposite direction based on velocity, or the EM rails will provide resistance.

In all likelihood, air entering the tube would cause the system to slow. Depressurization from the rear would mean the turbines would need to stop accelerating (or possibly reverse, given their speeds). Depressurization from the front would mean coasting to a stop, via natural resistance.
>>
as long as there is place for air to travel around, and brakes
I don't see the issue
Hyperloop is still a dumb meme tho, if we can't even get rail to work, how is hyperloop gonna work?

File: image.jpg (80KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]
image.jpg
80KB, 1280x720px
It seems like no matter how powerful technology gets we'll never be able to duplicate the processing power of the human brain with metal and wires. Does that mean if the fields of biology and anatomy advance enough, we'll be able to use a human brain as a computer?

I know this seems like a stupid idea, but imagine a brain as simply being a carbon based organic computer. Since it's the future people could have a brain in a jar with a bunch of chemicals and tubing to keep it alive and a ton of wires to allow it to process things for humans. Or... In a lab they could artificially inseminate a human egg cell with a sperm cell and have the zygote and fetus develop in a chemical bath, with scientists tampering with its brain in a genetic or surgical way to remove the emotional/social side to allow more computational and logical skill. I guess they'd turn out to be emotionless people with extreme proficiency in logical thinking. Maybe surgically plugging in their brain via a wire to the back of the head or neck to allow them to be used could work.

This is all science fiction right now, but do you think it's plausible in the future?
63 posts and 5 images submitted.
>>
If we engineered a biological computer, it would be much better than the brain.
>>
>>8213070
We'll be able to create artificial neural networks that mimic subconscious mind - specialized artificial intelligence - probably not consciousness.
But we don't need that - we can serve the role of the leading power - the conscious decision making for that machine.

It could present us by he virtue of its inner work with the major decisions it has to go trough and we will pick for it, just like our subconscious mind it will do stuff that double to triple our mental power and capacities - but never will be aware of them or in control of important, potentially threatening decisions.

We have sleep-walking cases of people that were able to operate vehicles in busy cities, or people that shut down their conscious mind and do extraordinary tasks with precission.

Such cases are often presented via hypnosis - where groups of people with no real talent in painting, could pain decent stuff if their conscious mind would be shut down for a period of time, and rather let all their brain resources be allocated for an task implanted from outside.

That's what we need unconscious complex machines to do our work.

And that's possible.
>>
>>8213070

>imagine a brain as simply being a carbon based organic computer

That's precisely what a brain is.

File: 1454717538781.png (136KB, 450x381px) Image search: [Google]
1454717538781.png
136KB, 450x381px
>it's a scientific paper
>incredibly clumsy prose
>no charts
>no full data
80 posts and 5 images submitted.
>>
> came here to bitch about it
>>>/trash/
>>
>>8213007
>It's a scientific paper
>Justifies neonatal genital cutting
>Claims no loss of sensitivity occurs after circumcision, going against basic logic

Published scientific paper != authoritative.
>>
>>8213012
authority = fallacy

File: 1456271164332.jpg (123KB, 1223x635px) Image search: [Google]
1456271164332.jpg
123KB, 1223x635px
Well?
166 posts and 7 images submitted.
>>
File: 1444931083848.jpg (20KB, 306x306px) Image search: [Google]
1444931083848.jpg
20KB, 306x306px
>>8209156
>this bait again
>>
turn K and 7
>>
>>8209156

If A has an odd number on the other side it fails

If the K has an even number on the other side the property is not broken, it is wovels that must have even numbers, not even numbers that must have wovels

If the 2 has a wovel on the other side the property is upheld. If the 2 has a consonant the property is upheld because consonants can have even and odd numbers.

If the 7 has a wovel on the other side the property is not uphold.

Thus A and 7 must be turned.

File: 16044012911.jpg (21KB, 614x410px) Image search: [Google]
16044012911.jpg
21KB, 614x410px
Could it be that most of higher mathematics, eg stuff like arithmetic geometry, is just nonsense? And that academics are just trolling everyone?
63 posts and 6 images submitted.
>>
ya
a lot of modern math is nu-male hippie shit, and not actual math
>>
>>8214594
Isn't it genius tp sokal your university into appreciating you work and paying you?
>>
Could it be that you're just too much of a brainlet to understand it?

File: trekteleporting.jpg (236KB, 1000x751px) Image search: [Google]
trekteleporting.jpg
236KB, 1000x751px
So far in the 20th and early 21st centuries there have been meteoric advancements in manipulating the speed of electrons and photons via semiconductor technology. This has in turn greatly enhanced our capability to process and analyze information at lightning speeds.

But on the other hand, very little progress has been made transferring physical objects (with masses greater than an electron) from A to B.

So it would be quite extraordinary to actually be able to transport goods, shipments and even people across the planet instantaneously.

But how could this be achieved? Some kind of macroscopic manipulation of space/time itself?

Your thoughts on this subject matter /sci/?
66 posts and 5 images submitted.
>>
Teleportation will probably never be possible at our macroscopic level.
>>
teleportation is impossible

/thread
>>
>>8217837
>>8217838

>analyzing stars is impossible :^)
>meteorites don't fall from the sky :^)
>flying is impossible :^)
>space flight is impossible :^)
>black holes are impossible :^)
>splitting the atom is impossible :^)

File: Noahs_Ark.jpg (139KB, 800x696px) Image search: [Google]
Noahs_Ark.jpg
139KB, 800x696px
I am not involved in any religion, nor is this thread meant to bash Christian beliefs of the Great Flood. This thread is meant to see how would you disprove the global flood myths in general, for even in greek mythology Zeus was proclaimed to have flooded the earth. Now you know Creationist are not going to truly try to prove it, but what I have noticed is people's attempts at disproving it. In all the contradiction videos I have seen, the arguer assumes that the world is a perfect oblate sphereoid with nothing rising above the sea level. The result is a requisite that is far higher than the requisite to flood the earth to 29,029ft. How would you go about accurately getting the required water necessary to fill the earth up to Everest's peak, while taking into account the displacement that hills and mountains cause? To also answer another excuse, how much would be needed to cover the earth up to Mt Arat?
105 posts and 13 images submitted.
>>
>>8204615
Some will make the claim that the humidity before the flood was significantly higher than afterword.
That literally all the water needed for the flood was simply vapor in the atmosphere prior to the flood.
The same person went on to claim that this high humidity was the reason that ante-deluvian biblical figures lived to hundreds of years old.

Sounds like bullshit to me.
>>
>>8204615
Covering the tallest mountains too? Not enough water for that. Also, gods don't exist. So, problem solved.
>>
For starters, lack of convincing evidence to support the claims of a global flood.
For enders, the diversity of land animals and the fossil record that establishes when these animals began to walk the lands they live on.

A global flood would kill millions of species and we'd see their skeletons in the rocks all around the world. Shit floats and currents move things from one continent to another.

File: image.jpg (2MB, 4032x3024px) Image search: [Google]
image.jpg
2MB, 4032x3024px
Post your calculator
123 posts and 39 images submitted.
>>
Should I get a graphing calculator desu
>>
fucked up rotation, sorry

kind of glad it uses batteries instead of solar power like some newer calcs I use
>>
File: tinspire[1].jpg (90KB, 450x470px) Image search: [Google]
tinspire[1].jpg
90KB, 450x470px

File: Lsidentity.png (63KB, 354x148px) Image search: [Google]
Lsidentity.png
63KB, 354x148px
Okay, in my last thread I pretty much proved that none of you know the first thing about serious mathematics so this is a test.

/sci/ you have to proof the identity in pic related and if you are not then you are not fit for scientific discussion and therefore must go back to /b/ where you belong.

Can you do it?
Can even the collective effort of all /sci/ posters achieve it?

I FUCKING DOUBT IT.

But I will be happy to be proven wrong. You may ask me questions.

Some information about it:

As you can see, it is pretty much a better euler's identity in the sense that all of the important math objects are there.

You have the multiplicative identity 1, the additive identity 0, infinity (twice), an improper integral, the natural logarithm, an exponential, etc.

It is pretty much the whole package. Can you even try to decipher how that even came to be?

I call it L's identity.

Can you even prove that it is actually correct?
108 posts and 12 images submitted.
>>
>>8214602
Cool hw thread OP.
Lemme know when you graduate crayons and move on to scissors
>>
>>8214628
I did not use crayons, those are markers.

Fuck you man, salty bitch because you can't deduce this revolutarionary theorem.
>>
>>8214628
By the way, I know how to prove it. I invented it. That is why I said that you could ask questions.

File: Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg (236KB, 576x738px) Image search: [Google]
Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg
236KB, 576x738px
Is there any mathematician that comes even close to master Gauss?
92 posts and 8 images submitted.
>>
euler
>>
John God Neumann
>>
>>8212849
Galois. Too bad the fucker arranged a suicide by duel because boo hoo muh relationship. Teens.

Will fusion reactors save mankind?
73 posts and 9 images submitted.
>>
>>8204254
I wouldn't go that far, but if we can get one to reliably put out more than what goes in then it will be a good replacement for dirtier or less renewable sources of cheap energy.
>>
>>8204254
Save mankind from what?
>>
>>8204254
is that radioactive?
i kinda want to live in that pic

File: 1460699639575s.jpg (18KB, 209x250px) Image search: [Google]
1460699639575s.jpg
18KB, 209x250px
Any students living in Turkey here? Were your opportunities to become something significant just washed down the drain?
66 posts and 8 images submitted.
>>
>>8215724
not unless they say something about the great sultan erdogan

i have a bunch of turkish friends. they're currently split into the "erdogan is so great what is everybody whining about" and the "this was a staged coup and we're fucked now" camp.

erdogan pros:
- helped the lower class and working classes, at least tried to
- helped get broad education through the land
- publicly speaks out against things happening in gaza

erdogan cons:
- what is free speech?
- what is neutral courts?
- built fuckhuge emperor palace into a natural reserve for no apparent reason whatsoever
- stance on women? great in the kitchen, great as mothers, useless otherwise

essentially, the prototype populist. if you have a brain, you will see this as a net loss. if you don't, well, MUH ERDOGAN.
>>
Umm no that's America
>>
File: unnamed (5).gif (122KB, 256x192px) Image search: [Google]
unnamed (5).gif
122KB, 256x192px
im applying for scholarship in germany
save me
>inb4 le german immigrant memes
i took german as my secondary foreign language, no other choice

File: main_math.jpg (21KB, 350x263px) Image search: [Google]
main_math.jpg
21KB, 350x263px
As a neuroscientist, should I even bother learning calculus? Or will all analysis and computation in my field be done by maths / comp people? I function well as a neuroscientist and I have though about taking calc courses, but would it give me anything right away or just the preliminary to study more?
56 posts and 5 images submitted.
>>
That's like asking if you should or should not go to the cinema because someone may at one point ask you about your opinion for the movie.
It's a fun thing to do and only takes a few hours off your time.
>>
>>8208836
You probably won't need it, but mitebfun
>>
>>8208836
I'm a neuroscientist also, And I'd recommend being familiar with calc for use in neural oscillator analysis. There are many algorithms that entail area under the curve, for instance, in psychophysics.

File: image.jpg (122KB, 1000x565px) Image search: [Google]
image.jpg
122KB, 1000x565px
Oh look, it's THIS thread again. But seriously now, what's the point of Mars colonization? Elon says: "It's for a human civilization back-up". We all know that Mars colony won't be self-sufficient in over 100 years and terraforming Mars will take thousands of years. It's a gigantic, ultraexpensive project. "But we can build mines on Mars and transport rare raw materials to Earth". Robot space mining costs billion dollars, but it's still millions times cheaper that building mines on Mars, and the whole process is much less complicated. Why he can't he focus first on space mining, which would make him a fucking first trillionare in a history, but he pushes SpaceX to create a Mars colony which is a strictly scientific, that means non-profitable, project. If he would make billions on raw materials from space first, then he could build his fucking colony not only on Mars.
314 posts and 22 images submitted.
>>
>>8199979
Because we need some fucking romance, something for daring adventurers to explore and inspire the rest of us back home.
>inb4 ocean
Ain't shit there and we all know it.
>>
File: baby brittle bones disease.jpg (119KB, 800x540px) Image search: [Google]
baby brittle bones disease.jpg
119KB, 800x540px
>>8199979
>what's the point of Mars colonization

It is to show the horrific effects of macrogravity on humans over their lifetime. Can you imagine the Jello-kids that would be created if there was a legit colony on Mars? They'd never get enough gravity to form proper bones.
>>
File: brittle-bone-diseas.jpg (35KB, 709x396px) Image search: [Google]
brittle-bone-diseas.jpg
35KB, 709x396px
>>8200002

File: image (1).jpg (1MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]
image (1).jpg
1MB, 3264x2448px
I just proved that modern mathematics is hugely flawed.

We pretty much have to go back a couple hundred years and go from there.

If you are not yet capable of understanding my complex proof then to sum it up I use the theory of infinite sums to prove that -1/12 = 0 = 1
75 posts and 3 images submitted.
>>
>>8214255
lul. Might want to make sure that 1+2+3+...= -1/12
>>
1+1+1 does not equal 2
i was expecting a good troll but u didnt even make it past the 3rd line
>>
>>8214266
didn't make it passed the 1st line

Pages: [First page] [Previous page] [1516] [1517] [1518] [1519] [1520] [1521] [1522] [1523] [1524] [1525] [1526] [1527] [1528] [1529] [1530] [1531] [1532] [1533] [1534] [1535] [1536] [Next page] [Last page]

[Boards: 3 / a / aco / adv / an / asp / b / bant / biz / c / can / cgl / ck / cm / co / cock / d / diy / e / fa / fap / fit / fitlit / g / gd / gif / h / hc / his / hm / hr / i / ic / int / jp / k / lgbt / lit / m / mlp / mlpol / mo / mtv / mu / n / news / o / out / outsoc / p / po / pol / qa / qst / r / r9k / s / s4s / sci / soc / sp / spa / t / tg / toy / trash / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vint / vip / vp / vr / w / wg / wsg / wsr / x / y] [Search | Top | Home]

I'm aware that Imgur.com will stop allowing adult images since 15th of May. I'm taking actions to backup as much data as possible.
Read more on this topic here - https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/


If you need a post removed click on it's [Report] button and follow the instruction.
DMCA Content Takedown via dmca.com
All images are hosted on imgur.com.
If you like this website please support us by donating with Bitcoins at 16mKtbZiwW52BLkibtCr8jUg2KVUMTxVQ5
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties.
Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster.
This is a 4chan archive - all of the content originated from that site.
This means that RandomArchive shows their content, archived.
If you need information for a Poster - contact them.