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not enough action

too much about sex and stuff

>>8044119
Read Voyage of the Beagle instead.

>>8044148
Why is it better ?

I think Minchio Kaku for physics

intelligence is unquantifiable. they are the same intelligence as we are.
calling them intelligent has no scientific basis aside from the arbitrary labels you make up which are subjective opinions and no more

>>8043896
Probably some random molecules and stuff spread throughout the atmosphere and in some organisms and the dirt. Give them time, they can do it.

Riemann surfaces?

You misspelled stoke's theorem

>>8043891
Optimization
awesome, i feel really dumb

>>8043802
Resources from nearby asteroids, m8. Also the exploration factor from making new settlements even in our solar system.

We definitely do need to fix our problems here on Earth, though.

>what is time dilation

>>8043802
You are a wise man, anonymous anon. Your words reflect truth and justice.

>>8043629
There are theories of everything that are quantized. No one knows what the correct TOE is. /thread

if everything was quantized we would have not known circumference

prove me wrong fags

This is actually a subject of my research, and AFAIK it's really an explored field. We're looking at topology problems from a quantized perspective, and then switching between discrete and continuous perspectives by changing the mesh resolution. It's fascinating stuff.

Suppose the pre-big bang universe did not have pre-existing space for a singularity to inflate into and that the physical boundaries of space was the dimensions of a pre-big bang singularity. Theoretical 0 space.

If the universe began as a singularity then the universe's initial state was a singularity. Since there was only this singularity the universe was just this singularity. Because the singularity was all that existed and was infinitely dense, then in the perspective of the universe there was thermodynamic equilibrium because heat and mass are evenly distributed in a singularity. This means that the pre-big bang initial state was infinitely high entropy?

>>8043591
>explode
Bait

>>8043600
Supposing there is pre-existing space in the pre-big bang universe. With any amount of pre-existing space in comparison to the pre-big bang singularity there would be low entropy as all heat and mass is unevenly contained in one point.

>>8043584
Oops! EDIT:
>the height decreases, so I can expect to see that in the denominator.

If you don't know Vi you won't know how high the ball gets, no way. Acceleration downwards by gravity acts on the speed of the ball. If the ball is going 100 m/s it will take longer for acceleration downwards to bring it to a complete stop than if it was going 50m/s

>>8043589
But this problem is assuming you do know Vi. If you throw a ball into the air (a predetermined initial velocity), what will its height be when it reaches the top?

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>>8043506
its a button. press it

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Different view of the top.

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tl;dr

>>8043407
>Platinum
>Positively charged side of a magnet
I hope this is bait

Not baiting, don't know if protons would be repelled by like charge of magnetic field. Probably wrong, in which case, still need a material that will repel protons.

Platinum wall works because natural electronegativity, unless you've got another, better option, or I'm misunderstanding something? Can harvest enough platinum easily.

Does he win when the order of spotted plates is: 100->500->900?

>>8043405
No, when numbers of TWO licence plates add to 1000 he wins.

So, first plate is random
second wins 1/1000
third 1/1000
n-th 1/1000

Distribution is random, so on average he's gonna find 1000 after 50% of plates?

>>8043311
Just listen to video game soundtracks. Usually does the trick for me

>>8043335

Any suggestions? I'm not into video games much (used to be during grade school, but not so much in college)

>>8043311
Chopin
Bach
Rachmaninoff

My personal favs

> Science is yet to prove or examine consciousness
> Read somewhere some retarded bullshit claim as if they know what theyre talking about
kid pls...

>>8043312
>kid pls
I'm likely older than you(27)

I just don't know shit about drugs, I don't really believe in recreational drug use personally but I feel like the experience could help me become closer to my friends.

If it was just weed this wouldn't be an issue but psychedelics are fucking spooky man.

>>8043322
Calm down, pick a nice day and try them. Always remember that no matter how fucked your perception is, after you sleep its gone and what you saw will be a faint memory.
Irreversible damage to your mind are very unlikely and if you consider yourself a strong willed person at all you should definitely try tripping.

>>8043215
you spout meme, unrelated authors and show absolutely no signs of actually knowing any philosophy

you sound like you want lazy continental memery. and that sounds like an absolutely terrible idea.

if you're sick of your degree you definitely need to change ASAP though, so tell us more about your interests, at this point it's only "i like meme philosophy and programming I guess" and that's shit

>>8043215
if you absolutely must study philosophy just double major you fuckhead

but you're asking 4chan for advice on a serious life decision, you're already bound for failure

>>8043228
You kind of illustrate my point. Wouldn't studying philosophy help me... well, learn more about philosophy?
In the last three years of my degree I barely read any non scientific literature and had very few creative thoughts that weren't clever ways of solving a tricky integral. In light of this I never really outgrew "meme philosophy" as you call it.

What would you call "good philosophy" btw? Russel, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Kant, Heidegger?

But to get back to my main point: I feel like I lost sight of my actual interests by burning all my energy on something that I don't actually want to do.

I have programmed in R, Java, Fortran, DrRacket and Python. I did quite a bit of scientific programming, including geostatistical methods and numerical methods of illustrating nonlinear systems. My Bachelors thesis focussed on the the fluorescence properties of eGFP. But of my studies I mainly enjoyed the parts where I got to program things, hence me saying I "enjoy programming".

If you need to know something specific to give me constructive advice please ask a specific question and I will do my best to answer it.

Lie Groups are more a topic of Differential Geometry than they are Algebra.

They are smooth manifolds which also have the structure of a group.

>>8043173
>I hate this book. It doesn't even discuss Lie groups.
Is this bait? I doubt there's a single introductory algebra book that discusses Lie groups. Not even Dummit and Foote does, IIRC, and that's as encyclopedic as you're going to get.

Pretty much everyone who's inexperienced enough to be reading Artin doesn't have enough background in manifolds to understand that.

That said, I think Knapp has written a book on them. I haven't read it but Knapp's algebra set is top-notch so it's probably worth looking at.

>>8043173
For basic algebra with a view towards category theory (which can be useful in some areas of theoretical physics - mostly toy models such as topological field theories) I would advise Aluffi's "Algebra chapter 0".

For Lie groups, take up e.g. Knapp's "Lie groups: beyond an introduction". You could also try with "Geometry, topology and physics" by Nakahara, where he introduces many notions from mathematics (such as Lie groups) needed in theoretical/mathematical physics. However, it is a bit less detailed.

>>8043127
if oil is a good lubricant for sex, why is it bad for cleaning our hands?

>>8043127
I don't think you understand the difference between "solvent" and "lubricant".

>>8043127
its not, most of us use soap. fucking slob